Vinnova has granted funding for the project Innocities - smart and sustainable community development through innovation and collaboration.

The transition work to achieve the 2030 Agenda requires a high degree of social innovation and interaction in order to implement the necessary systemic transformations, not least in municipalities and other publicly owned businesses.

The project will develop and disseminate the Innocities innovation program to municipalities, ports and energy companies in Sweden and the Nordic region. Innocities provides a systemic innovation process and methodology for local operational interaction with the aim of accelerating the transition to achieve Agenda 2030 and contribute to smart and sustainable social and business development.

By further developing a successful Norwegian innovation program for Swedish conditions, the project will contribute to developing the innovation and cooperation capacity of municipalities and publicly owned ports and energy companies so that the involvement of individual residents, civil society, academia and the business community is utilized in a systematic way and is interwoven with established activities and societal missions.

SIQ is participating in the project, which runs from October 2021 to March 2023, in collaboration with Smart Innovation Norway, Mälardalen University and Sweco.