New public sector environments for testing and developing innovations

The projects receive funding within Vinnova's effort on test beds for society's challenges, with a focus on creating test environments in public activities. Test and demonstration environments, so-called test beds, are becoming increasingly important for business and the public sector as the development of goods and services progresses faster and becomes more complex.

The purpose is to create the conditions and stimulate the ability and the will to test cheaply, quickly and on a small scale. Public actors coordinate the implementation projects, but the initiatives for the preparation projects may come from other actors. The test beds are also open to, for example, companies, academia and civil society who want to test their innovations in a real environment.

In total, 20 project, 14 preparation projects and 6 implementation projects are financed with SEK 34 million.

Examples of preparation projects:

Test bed for AI-driven language learning

The labor market administration in the City of Helsingborg wants to develop a test bed where AI-driven language learning will be made possible in collaboration with development companies, researchers, the idea-driven sector, students and staff. The goal is to be able to give newly arrived and foreign-born residents better conditions to learn Swedish in order to be more quickly established in society and in the labor market.
Coordinator: City of Helsingborg

Prisma - A work-integrating leisure sector

The project is about developing Lund Municipality's Prisma project into a test bed for work integration. The municipality's leisure sector constitutes the arena for work training and personal development with a view to future employment in municipal activities. The test bed should also be designed in a way that specifically promotes the participation of foreign-born girls and women in leisure activities and the transition to working life.
Coordinator: Idrottsklubben EOS 

Examples of implementation projects:

Test bed DIGGA - Digitalisation in waste management

The project aims to develop and offer an open testbed for digital technologies and solutions that contribute to sustainable waste management and a circular economy. The test bed offers the opportunity for tests to suppliers, developers and innovators of digital technology.
Coordinator: Waste Management Östra Skaraborg

Lund Open Sensoring City

Lund wants to establish an open test bed for a future real-time controlled society where people, organizations, infrastructure and sensor systems (within flows, mobility, movements) work together to create a sustainable environment.
Coordinator: Lund municipality