Environment, Cities and Sustainable Development
The projects in this category aim to find solutions to sustainable development challenges. We focus on environmental sustainability, urban development, and sustainable practices. Our projects provide insights and practical solutions that can be applied in various contexts. The overarching objective is to promote sustainable growth and improve the quality of life while ensuring the preservation of natural resources. CKIR's projects contribute to the creation of sustainable and resilient communities that solve environmental and urban challenges.
The following projects fall under this theme.
FINEX
FINEX project supports the quick deployment and uptake of Cleantech solutions. It also drivest the development of support regulatory frameworks through world-class experimentation practices, networks and experience of its partners.
To solve the climate crisis in practice, we need to accelerate the scaling of breakthrough Cleantech products & solutions. This means novel technologies and related business models that offer competitive returns for investors and customers while they provide solutions to global societal challenges too. Favourable regulations with supporting experimentation frameworks and support tools to help turning research into market ready innovations are allow a quick uptake of disruptive technologies and innovations with the potential to help tackle grand societal and climate challenges.
Partners come from five universities and four innovation networks, all from Europe. FinEst Centre for Smart Cities in TalTech coordinates the project.
Duration: September 1, 2024 – August 31, 2026 (24 months)
Contact persons: Ilkka Lakaniemi, Kalle Toiskallio
Funding (1M€) source: HORIZON CSA, EIC and EISMEA
Read more on the project website: https://finestcentre.eu/project/finex/
CO2 DataHub project & ESG ecosystem
The R&D project led by Vastuu Group Oy developed methods for measuring carbon dioxide emissions throughout the supply chain of companies and cities, as well as methods for reporting and leading with reliable data.
The project ran from 2022-2023 and involved Vastuu Group Oy, VTT, Aalto University, Sitowise, Onway and Finreim as a core team. The collaboration will continue, driven by KiraHub. Read more: https://kirahub.org/tule-yhteistyojaseneksi/
Contact person: Ilkka Lakaniemi.
Funded by: Business Finland (Next GenerationEU).
Read more on the project website: https://co2datahub.vastuugroup.fi/
SynchroniCity
The SynchroniCity project consists of 34 organizations – public, private, NGOs and academia – who have joined forces to realize this goal to harness existing front-runner city capacities, and to provide opportunities for industry, SMEs and other cities to pilot IoT-enabled urban services in a concerted fashion on a massive, global scale.
Concretely, the SynchroniCity project will deploy IoT-enabled urban services in two phases: initially within the areas of mobility and near-real-time policy support, and later in the form of an Open Call where new services can be proposed and developed.
The project has a budget of €20 million including €15 million contribution from the European Commission. The project’s time span was 2017-2019.
Contact persons: Ilkka Lakaniemi, Heini Ikävalko.