Espoo – Shanghai Sister Cities

T3 Innovation Triangle development is based on the Strategy of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area: “Integrating Otaniemi University Campus & Tapiola Garden City & Keilaniemi High Tech Business Community.”

T 3Science and technology

Art and design

Business and

economy

KEILANIEMI

OTANIEMITAPIOLA

Markku Markkula19-20 September 2012

BrusselsEU-China Mayors Forum

Future challenges of healthcare and wellbeing 未来医疗与福利中的挑战

Aging population

老年人口

Adapted from: Future of Health Care in the Year 2015 (Parliament of Finland, Committee for the Future)

Increasing costs

不断增长的费用How can we better

utilize ICT?

如何更好的利用信息化科技？

Promotion of health by citizens’ active role

大家的参与将会促进更好的养老环境

Source: http://www.myeatsmartmovemore.com/

Case: Active Aging Collaboration – the network developed in 2010 - 2012

City of Espoo

Espoo

TampereVantaa

Finland China

AALTO Energizing Urban

Ecosystems Program

AALTO Energizing Urban

Ecosystems Program

Shanghai Tongji

Living LabsATDF

Shanghai Tongji

Living LabsATDF

Montreal Living Labs

Montreal Living Labs

MIT City Science

Initiative

Aalto Tongji Design Factory http://sfc.tongji.edu.cn/Radical Design Week (RDW) Shanghai in October 2012 http://www.radicaldesignweek.com/

New forms of hand-on collaboration: As part of the extensive €20 Million research program “Energizing Urban Ecosystems” a special Aalto – MIT – Tongji initiative will focus on the elements of urban spaces for the new flexible and sustainable environments. Participants will have the opportunity to travel to Shanghai in October for a one week design studio.

ServicesAccess Network

Green Comm.

Intelligent Services

Mobile Internet

IoT/WoT

Capacity Resource Energy Experience

Testbed Federation: Open Experimental Environments

• Complex mobile environments• Heterogeneous wireless networks• Local area communications• Green ICT and resource efficiency • Network virtualization • Internet proxies/protocol optimization• Experiential computing• Service-driven mobile cloud

Jointly Prepared Framework for the Next Stage of ICT Alliance Research Cooperation

Source: China – Finland ICT Alliance Workshop in Xi’an, April 2012

Piloting Piloting: The Chinese electric bus starts test drives in autumnVeolia Finland will start electric bus test runs next autumn as part of VTT-led (Technical Research Centre of Finland) TransEco -research project.

The goal of Helsinki Metropolitan Area Transport is to cut public transport emissions by 80 percent by 2018. Veolia aims to test 4-6 electric buses and explore issues such as their suitability for regional transport.

The real challenge is to integrate

environmental policy

economic affairs policy

Espoo as attractive environment for innovation and

business

ESPOO DEMO

PLATFORM

Sustainable mobility &

transportation

Environment for innovation

& business

WALCC Chairman: Professor Kang Fei-Yu, Dean of Tsinghua University’s Graduate School at Shenzhen

www.synocus.com

www.walcc.org

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Photos: Lauri Lehtovuori

Student Mikko Kuusi

VicePresident Hannu Seristö

Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb

Entrepreneur Peter Westerbacka

• Joint project between Aalto University and Tongji University

• 1000 m2 of creative, transformable space bringing together students, research, industry & society

• Passion-based co-creation platform for interdisciplinary collaboration

Aalto-Tongji Design Factory

ATDF

100 Aalto Students on train from Helsinki to Shanghai