Establishment Smart City Tender

Status Grant agreement signedOverall budget 15 000 000EU contribution 15 000 000The finest twins project will build a multidisciplinary smart-city center of excellence coe that mobilises all leading smart city actors and stakeholders in estonia and establishes solid long-term high-level research knowledge-transfer and innovation partnerships with the counterparts from the helsinki region to capitalise on the macro regions scientific research innovation and entrepreneurship potential. The coe will match the leading smart city research centres globally and focus on all five key domains of clean and sustainable smart city development mobility energy and built environment glued together by governance and urban analytics data management research streams. The finest twins will have a globally unique focus on developing user-driven clean and sustainable smart city solutions that are cross-border-by-default in the context of emerging twin city between tallinn and helsinki. For this purpose the coe will set up an urban open platform lab uop.lab that develops and implements research and innovation ri pilots. The coe will attract international expertise and investment and act as a springboard for exporting finnish-estonian knowledge and high-tech solutions globally. In the long run the coe has full autonomy financial sustainability and it will increase estonian ri funding by 2 annually with a strong spill-over to the real economy.the coe will have autonomous management premises and 5 research streams producing the following kpis by 2027estimated 100 research publications annuallyestimated 150 horizon 2020fp9ercinterregnational submissions during the project periodestimated 25 local research and innovation partnershipsup to 15 double degree phd graduates annuallythe coe will build knowledge transfer infrastructure the uop.lab via estimated 100 unit innovation vouchers given out rent-a-phd and startup-in-residence programmes applied to phds and companies minimum of 10 cross-border ri pilots