Innovation in Helsingborg

The city's challenges

We work for a slightly smarter, more sustainable and caring city by directing the innovation work towards fifteen selected challenges - which we also want to collaborate on. See what challenges we are working on right now.

Democracy

How can we take advantage of the business community’s desire for greening of the economy?

Climate & Environment

How do we reduce our carbon footprint and create a more circular economy?

Housing

How do we create attractive housing environments for families with children?

Digitization & Technology

How can we take advantage of the increasing place dependence?

Learning and Establishment

How can we become better at attracting, retaining and developing skills?

How do we work with innovation?

Helsingborg wants to be a smarter, more sustainable and caring city. We have developed a model for our innovation work and embarked on a journey of change that affects the entire organization. How did we get here?

Read all about our work

Our initiatives

The innovative work we’re doing in Helsingborg will make for a smarter and more sustainable city in which citizens experience a higher quality of life. Here you’ll find information on all of the city's innovation initiatives.

Innovation in Helsingborg

The city's challenges

How can we make residents more involved and co-creative?

How can we help people feel less lonely?

How do we promote mental and physical health among young people?

How do we meet the new and growing expectations of the elderly?

How can we get more students to reach the knowledge goals in school?

How can we make everyone in the community employable and self-sufficient?

How can we use data for better services and higher quality of life?

How do we counteract segregation and polarization in society?

How can we minimise our digital vulnerability?

How can we improve security for our citizens?

How can we take advantage of the business community’s desire for greening of the economy?

How do we reduce our carbon footprint and create a more circular economy?

How do we create attractive housing environments for families with children?

How can we take advantage of the increasing place dependence?

How can we become better at attracting, retaining and developing skills?

How do we work with innovation?

Our initiatives

3D-printed food to counteract malnutrition

One hundred thousand reasons to dream away!

Hbg Works - a meeting place for innovation

Pixla experience park - It takes a box to be able to think outside the box

Laiban - the robot that answers preschool children's questions

Tiny sensors everywhere in the city space

Dialogue and co-creation

Co-living at Drottninghög

SällBo

Autonomous vehicles

Aktivitetshuset Tryckeriet skips fixed templates

RECO LAB

OPS! - Oceanhamnen is full of new technology and opportunities

The fire station at Gåsebäck

A marine park - in the middle of the city

An infrastructure for IoT

Store emissions from Filbornaverket underground

Support your local company with donations in Action Helsingborg

District development in Fredriksdal

Language friend - to learn languages with the help of Artificial Intelligence

Learn all about finding a new job

The app where you plan your labor market efforts yourself

Innovative public toilets

The children's H22 - the children plan the city of the future

Circular economy with new outdoor recycling

The city as a classroom - the whole city is like a big classroom

Assume where the jobs actually are instead of the other way around

Greater opportunities for student councils to influence their municipality

Easier to apply for income support

Sensors tell about the situation on the beach and in the bathing water

Digital customer portal for food businesses

Digital infrastructure via the lighting of the future

Experience the future park in Virtual Reality

A nursery in the middle of town

Less noise in the city in new ways

People's walk - to build for equality

Create your square with us!

Wind power in an urban environment

Infectious delivery of digital purchases

Digital booking system for video calls

Caring AI in healthcare

BrittMari - the language support that facilitates communication between customers and healthcare staff

The modern telephone booth

-72 on H22

Mission Kärnan - an app with development potential

The library of the future: rebuilding and extension of the city library in Helsingborg

Habiteum - a workshop for quality of life

The plain language group

Transparent transport

Digital exclusion

AR game "Sweden's cleanest city"

Mitt Helsingborg - smooth contact with the municipality

Support for parents with placed children

The digital team

Cycle to a cleaner sea

Idéslussen grows colleagues' idea seeds for innovation

What would the city look like if children could decide?

Inhabitants + Hackathon = Inhabithon

The family is reading

Area work on Adolfsberg

Develop Housing first