Viikki Living Lab

Viikki Living Lab brings together the University of Helsinki’s research and teaching, the residents of Viikki, and those visiting Viikki for studies or work, as well as businesses in various fields. Viikki Living Lab provides a platform for co-development and testing of sustainable innovations, such as new products and services for food system and wood and forest related businesses.  

Viikki Food Design Factory leads the development of Viikki Living Lab in close cooperation with Viikki Wood & Forest Innohub. The work has begun with charting key stakeholders in the pilot environment, co-developing its concept and operating methods, and piloting various experiments. 

When ready, Viikki Living Lab offers the following:  

• For research and teaching: A platform that enables regional-centred, inclusive citizen research.
• For businesses: User and consumer insight as well as rapid testing opportunities.
• For residents of Viikki as well as those visiting the University of Helsinki for work and studies: Participation in the development of innovations and promotion of sustainability, in research conducted in Viikki and in the development of the district. 

Viikki residents, students, researchers and entrepreneurs: Join us!

The unique environment of Viikki represents an urban and sustainable lifestyle. The is developing Viikki as a hub for sustainable innovation. 

The Viikki Living Lab pilot environment provides residents and actors in the Viikki region with the opportunity to participate, for example, in the sensory testing of new food products or pilots in local food production and sales. The living lab environment enables various projects from local urban farming to increasing wellbeing through use of natural materials. 

Want to know more?  

Read more and register for Viikki Living Lab activities on the Living Lab website, or if you have a company or a research project in which you would like to use the platform, please contact Laura Forsman at Viikki Food Design Factory.