The City of Helsingborg, Sweden, is a finalist in the European Green Capital Award 2023. The City of Helsingborg is one-step closer to becoming the European Green Capital in 2023. Helsingborg’s most prominent successes are linked to how the city has tackled environmental challenges associated with air, water, and noise pollution, waste management, energy efficiency, and climate change mitigation.
The MIT Senseable City Lab and the City of Helsingborg, Sweden, will together develop a research agenda centered on the "Future of Public Safety in Cities". Social media data and public safety data will be analyzed to understand various events that concern notions of safety and public perception of the issue. The results will be showcased at the H22 City Expo in Helsingborg, 2022.
By using a unique technology based on thermal sensors in combination with novel AI, the city of Helsingborg in southern Sweden is first in the world to estimate trends of elevated body temperatures within a population.
Helsingborg was awarded second place in the European Capital of Innovation Awards 2020, also known as iCapital, during a ceremony in Brussels today. This is an annual prize awarded to the European city that is best able to demonstrate its ability to harness innovation to improve the lives of its residents.
The City of Helsingborg in southern Sweden is a finalist in the European Capital of Innovation Awards 2020, also known as iCapital. This is an annual prize awarded to the European city that is best able to demonstrate its ability to harness innovation to improve the lives of its residents. Other finalists include cities such as Vienna, Milan, and Valencia.
On the 5th to 6th of November we’re welcoming both local and international media representatives to H22 Summit. This is a two day conference focusing on how we can work together, over national boundaries and across themes and occupations, to create a smarter and more sustainable city. On the speakers list you’ll find experts from New York City, UNECE, Amsterdam and Hamburg – to name just a few.
The Swedish city of Helsingborg has presented the first of the businesses and organizations that intend to collaborate with the city on the journey towards the city expo H22 – A Smarter City. 40 different organizations can be found on the list, among others Microsoft, IBM, IKEA and the OECD initiative OPSI (Observatory for Public Sector Innovation).
