Projects

TryOut is a co-creational and experimentative platform aiming at strengthening emerging business models in cleantech, circular economy and smart city. We bring together newly established teams especially with a background in the University of Helsinki, the city of Helsinki, existing business, and urban inhabitants to experiment new business models, products…

When voter turnout fell in the 1990s people began to worry about the state of democracy. Policy makers wrung their hands, tinkered, launched enquiries and experimented with participatory budgets. But voters continued to desert political parties and cynicism grew. But then new politicians arrived, from outside the establishment, with a…

What are the possibilities in using digitalization and Internet of Things to improve human capabilities and create a more resource smart world? Towards Digital Paradise -project develops new businesses that are related to sensor technology, help to solve societal problems and are based on Nordic values such as trust, privacy…

Region 2050 is a foresight process that creates scenarios of the future role of regions in the globalized world. Region 2050 combines an international network of foresight experts, one hundred leading civil servants and Demos Helsinki’s participatory foresight methods to look at the role of regions in the future. The…

The reason for setting up NextEra is clear: Everyone seems to agree we are on the verge of a large transformation, yet surprisingly few ask: where do we want to go? What kind of jobs and income do we want? What is the future of democracy and self-organization? What role…

Health 2050 is a broad study by Demos Helsinki and The National Institute for Health and Welfare that draws attention to the freedom of choice in health-related matters and to the future of health in general. It produces new information about the opportunities the municipalities, organizations and corporates have to…

Demos Helsinki created a model for integrating experiments into the national policy-making process. The model is highlighted by the OECD (pp. 79-92) as one of the world’s key examples of systemic level innovations. The model was commissioned by the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office and it is used by Finnish ministries…

What are the possibilities in using digitalization and Internet of Things to improve human capabilities and create a more resource smart world? The Naked Approach is a significant strategic research project that investigates means to create an alternative, human-driven approach to operate in the digitalizing society. Design, technology and business solutions…

It has often been claimed that robot technology is not the future but the reality today. Demos Helsinki and Metropolia are making this claim come true in terms of public transport by analysing the functionality and social acceptability of robot buses. What does it feel like to step into a…

Finnish retailing cooperative S Group’s logistic centre will be moving from Kera, an industrial area in Espoo, to Sipoo in the coming years. This opens up the opportunity to develop a whole new kind of neighbourhood in Kera. A partnership between S Group and Demos Effect that began a year…