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The Six City Strategy - Benefits of Cooperation

Pekka Sundman   Director of Regional Cooperation, City of Turku Tampere Smart City Week  27.1.2021

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TURKU
OULU
TAMPERE
VANTAA
ESPOO HELSINKI
Concerns every
third Finn.
BUDGET
€100M
60
projects
started
FINANCIERS
Helsinki-Uusimaa
Regional Council
(ERDF)
Häme EL Y Centre
(ESF)
Six Cities
Project partners
Finnish
Government
MAIN GOALS
new business,
know-how
and jobs
increasing

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Building capacity and knowledge base O pen data and interfaces Open innovation platforms Open participation and customership 1

Pilot projects   Piloting and experimenting in numerous thematic areas . 2

Scaling the results Scaling results, methods and operating models to other cities. 3

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Circular Economy and
Energy (13 projects)
17M€
Training and Employment
(19 projects)
15M€
Smart City -
Solutions ja
Urban Data (7
projects)
New Knowledge
and Competences
for SMEG (4
projects)
Learning (2 projects)
Health and Wellbeing (5 projects)
Mobility
(4
projects)

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63 different organizations  have been involved. Over  1010 specialists  from different fields. Over  4 000 companies  participated in co-creation and piloting.

ACTIVE CUSTOMER-CENTERED CO-CREATION – TESTING ON OPEN INNOVATION PLATFORMS – OPENING AND UTILISING DATA AND INTERFACES

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Managing Authority (MA)   Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment

Funding Bodies ERDF - Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council ESF - Centre for Economic Development, Transport and Environment of Häme

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+800 new or improved solutions , products or services have been developed. +100 new innovation platforms  have been created. Concrete actions and novel co-creation methods tightened and renewed the relationship between cities and companies. Cities turned into innovation platforms.

Photo: Energywise Cities, Jarno Räisänen, City of Helsinki

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Over 5 000 people  participated in improving their study or employment opportunities. Collaboration between cities, companies, R&D&I organisations and citizens enhanced the innovation capacity and resilience of the whole ecosystem.

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Carbon neutrality
and resource
wisdom
Customership
and service
management
Safety and
security
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Urban
design
Traffic and
mobility
Prevention of
social
exclusion

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SERVICE
Blye Indust a
BIP
BLUE INDUSTRY
PARK
LEADING CLUSTER OF
MARITIME INDUSTRY
Currently under construction,
Blue Industry Park is a growth
cluster of maritime industry and
manufacturing industry. Blue Industry
Park combines a critical mass of
resources and expertise with a
competitive setting for production,
product development and research.
The area is planned to become the
leading cluster of maritime production
and innovation in Europe.

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Turku Science Park Boldly experimental. Logistically attractive.  Alive 24/7/365. Sustainably Growing.

Photo: Cederqvist & Jäntti Arkkitehdit Oy

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Turku, Finland
"A lot of life here convenes
around the river.
I came to Turku in 2016 on a Fulbright scholarship, and I fell in love with the city on my first day. I was
walking across a bridge over the Aura River — it was sunny, and the schools hadn't quite started yet so
there were people all along the grassy areas on the riverbank. I remember thinking, "I want to live here
forever.
Nature is so accessible here; there are these tall trees everywhere. It seems like the earth and the sky
can almost touch. The river is really my thing. When I'm biking, I'll go out of my way to ride on the river
path. I moved back to Turku this August to be with my now-husband. We haven't really been going out
into the city because of the pandemic, and I almost feel like I'm not really back because I haven't seen the
river yet.
—AVANTI CHAJED
TURKU, FINLAND
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Avanti Chajed is from Illinois and lives in Turku.
She is a doctoral student doing work on
immigrant family experiences.

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