Project description

Urban Wellbeing Lab is co-funded by the Regional Council of Uusimaa and the European Union. The project uses urban environments as real-life testing platforms for wellbeing innovations and aims to strengthen the RDI capacities of SMEs and start-ups by leveraging open wellbeing data, co-creation, and piloting activities carried out in collaboration with cities.

The project is coordinated by Business Helsinki with Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Forum Virium Helsinki as partners. Laurea is responsible for designing and coordinating the RDI collaboration model that supports business development through the use of wellbeing data, and for developing an impact model to assess the effects of solutions on urban environments and city wellbeing. The project strengthens collaboration between cities, companies, and RDI actors. It also supports the creation and scaling of data-driven wellbeing solutions.

Project participants

Laurea’s team includes project manager Mikael Seppälä, impact specialist Minna Aittasalo, RDI activity model coordinator Laura Karjalainen, and service designer/facilitator Mira Rajalakso.

The project is coordinated by Business Helsinki: https://testbed.hel.fi/en/health-and-wellbeing/urban-wellbeing-lab/

The other partner of the project is Forum Virium Helsinki: https://forumvirium.fi/en/projects/urban-wellbeing-lab/