FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

The FinEst Centre for Smart Cities is based in Estonia and capable of mobilising all leading actors and stakeholders in Estonia and establish a solid long term partnership with Helsinki region counterparts, capitalising on the macro region’s scientific knowledge, innovativeness and entrepreneurship. FinEst Centre is focusing on mobility, energy and built environment glued together by governance and urban analytics & data and aims to match leading smart city research centres globally. FinEst Centre develops the cross-border knowledge transfer infrastructure through real-life pilots capable of attracting international expertise and investment, as well as acting as a springboard for the exportation of Finnish-Estonian knowledge and combined service solutions on a global scale.

This initiative is supported by the European Commission (H2020 grant 856602), the Estonian government (Ministry of Education and Research) and European Regional Development Fund (grant 2014-2020.4.01.20-0289)