Citiverse
Tampere pioneers the unexplored
We didn’t have the advantage of a fortunate starting point, which is why we seized every opportunity.
Citiverse
Now, we lead a human-centric European citiverse, driven by collaboration and new technologies.
We provide predictive visitor flow insights to empower businesses.
We have created a unique urban mobility testing environment where world-class sustainability innovations are made.
With secure data and new technologies, we elevate safety and the experience economy.
We shape the future side by side, leveraging mutual learning through global networks.
Our scalable solutions tackle the everyday challenges of a historically fast-growing city, merging virtual and physical worlds.
Driving the thriving excellence areas
Intelligent Machines
Health & Wellbeing
Digital
industry
Safety & Security
Creative economy
Sustainable technology
Software engineering
Camera &
Imaging tech
Autonomous
operation
Industry 4.0
Batteries &
Electromobility
Batteries &
Electromobility
Cleantech
Comprehensive security
Health tech
Creative
solutions
Chips & Photonics
Artificial intelligence
Green
energy
Defense tech
- 1500 ICT companies
- Over 5000 data &
AI -professionals
- 120 organisations
in our AI and Chip
sub-ecosystems -
500 of Europe’s
8000 advanced chip design experts work
in Tampere
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Citiverse
SURE
How can we ensure safety at events
and evacuate crowds effectively?
Smart Urban Security and Resilience
Advanced smart lighting system strategically designed to guide event-goers safely to and away from event zones.
The smart lighting system supports people
flows through signalling for everyday life,
events, and emergencies.
Social return on investment (SROI) of 7,5M€.
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Life-Enriching
Experiences
Tampere brings together IP-based and digitally replicable industries, fosters their growth with the university, and leverages the experiential value of culture through Cityverse pilots.
During the past five years, Tampere’s regional game industry has grown by 85%, the audiovisual sector
by 84%, and the event industry by 50%.
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Life Changing Chips from Tampere
Tampere is home to critical, life-changing chip innovations for ubiquitous connectivity, health, and security, enabling immersive,
AI-driven experiences.
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Leveraging mutual learning locally and globally
Shaping sustainable and collaborative future for Europe and beyond
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Leaving no one behind
Increasing happiness is at the heart of our strategies.
We build social innovations
together with businesses enabled by technology.
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A joint win for Tampere at Seoul in Human-Centered Smart City category
Collaboration between Tampere, Nokia Arena and LG won the Human-Centered Smart City category award at Seoul's Smart City Gala with a solution that enhances the visitor experience at Nokia Arena through LG's smart displays.
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Seoul’s competition described a human-centered city as implementing digital equality in its projects and actively addressing digital inequality.
The vision was that the arena would also serve as an international innovation and testing platform for companies, with social human-centeredness as the focus instead of just technology.
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
By 2040, Metaverse technologies will have changed the world. Tampere intends to be at the forefront of that development with the world’s first people-centred metaverse strategy.
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
AI improves citizens' well-being through efficient solutions and personalised services in education, health, and urban environments. Businesses, tourists,
and immigrants can explore the city’s possibilities even before arriving.
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
What Will Happen?
Physical and digital converge
People will adapt to digital twins, augmented humans and intelligent objects
Metaverse interfaces
become mainstream.
Human-Computer Interaction, Brain Computer Interface, and Extended Reality modes of sensing and communication will be the new immersive, interactive, intuitive experience for all.
Quantum computers smooth and speed up the metaverse
Usability will reach new heights using quantum computing.
Cybersecurity will be the key to safe cityverses
Quantum computing will become the norm in digital safety and data protection.
Automated governance
Governance of the metaverse is given to AI, which will enforce the law and take care of digital identity, contract assurance.
Available green energy
Energy forms like Hydrogen power and nuclear fusion become broadly available allowing countries to fulfil their net zero commitments.
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
Key Focus Areas
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
Happiness
Leverage AI to promote happiness, address depression, and integrate non-Finnish speakers and immigrants.
Equality
Ensure inclusivity and accessibility for all, pilot initiatives for investors, tourists, and migrants.
Governance
Implement automated, self-learning governance, ensuring safety, data protection, & digital identity assurance.
Sustainability
Become a regenerative,carbon negative, zero waste city. Use predictive urbanism and AI to bridge traditional silos.
Health & Well-being
Transform healthcare with AI, digital twins, and the metaverse: Personalise medicine, advanced equipment, & innovative services.
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
Objectives
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
Attract international talent.
Feature an AI-driven platform in the Cityverse to find opportunities for all.
Create Global competitiveness for local enterprises.
Predict, prepare, and provide for citizens’ needs across life’s phases.
Promote and enforce health, safety and privacy rules and norms for body implants.
Use intelligent solutions & digital twins for people-centric governance mechanisms.
Enable creative governing & public service models to coax sustainable, healthy choices.
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
Technology Map
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
Short Term 2023-2025
Metaverse
Artificial intellingence
Augmented Reality
Autonomous mobility
AI-enabled software development
5G+
Long Term 2035-2040
& beyond
Brain-Computer Interface
Personalised Medicine
Quantum Communications
Organ Printing
Digital Twin technologies
Quantum Computing
Anti-aging Technologies
Ultra Immersive User Interface
Virtual Teleportation
Nuclear Fusion
Medium Term 2026-2035
6G+
Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040
Smart Tampere
Skills Inventory
Skills Inventory in CityVerse
Boosting Urban Vitality with AI and Digital Twins
City of Tampere, Finland
Skills Inventory
SOLUTION: DIGITAL TWIN OF SKILLS INVENTORY
The innovation process is built around predictive AI text analytics
INPUTS (raw data sources)
Anonymous jobseeker data from a government database
Education offering data from education institutions
Open Jobs data
from the industry
Jobseekers’ My-data that they have authorizised
OUTPUTS
Region level skills inventory visualisation and analysis for the government/city
Jobs and training
recommendations
for the job seeker
Direct candidates for the industry
Knowledge for needed trainings and courses for the education institutions
AI ANALYSIS
Skills Inventory
THE OUTCOMES SHOWING THE RECORD OF SUCCESS
The current job seeker data is anonymous
Provides a visual and machine-readable interpretation of the skills that make up the Tampere skills inventory and how they relate to available jobs and trainings.
REGION LEVEL SKILL INVENTORY DATA VISUALISATION
Balanced offering & demand
Offering exists, no demand
Demand exists, no offering
Provides individuals with job and training recommendations based on their skills
Provides a map based anonymous view of the skills and open jobs on the map
Provides industry-specific info how many candidates can be found for jobs directly or through training
Skills Inventory
CONNECTING TO THE BIGGER PICTURE
It is not only about job matching.
The aim is to enable a holistic approach to human well-being in
a city where work is one aspect.
The solution will be part of a cognitive (CityVerse enabled) city integrating technology & knowledge management seamlessly into people's lives.
Skills Inventory
Skills Inventory / Longplay
Data Economy
Crash-testing AI for cities & companies
Tampere offers Smart City and AI developers opportunities to test solutions in real-world testbeds and platforms.
"These test sites provide physical & virtual infrastructure, access to data, and help ensure that the solutions being developed are safe, validated, aligned with EU regulation, and in line with end-users' needs.”
Data Economy
Tampere City Lab offers a testing environment that combines virtual and physical testbeds in a real-world city. It connects application developers with city operations, facilitating testing and data sourcing. The City Lab gives access to 4 unique testing zones.
Tampere AI City Lab
TESTING ZONES
Tampere IoT Platform
Extensive IoT infra combining sensor data, cameras & street lighting. Data platform with AI / ML analytics. Low-code app building tools.
Hervanta Testbed
City district dedicated to smart traffic. Autonomous mobility testing. Comprehensive and detailed real-time digital twin.
Tyyppaamo Testbed
Infrastructure with renewable energy production sources. Energy storage and optimisation. Building automation and data platform.
Nokia Arena Testbed
World-class multi-purpose event venue with superfast 5G network and indoor positioning system. Connected to city IoT.
Data Economy
- High-precision 3D model created with advanced airship technology
3D Tampere with aerial Imaging
- Emission-free and silent operation with long flight endurance
- Enables a realistic, multidimensional view of the urban environment
- Can be enriched with additional data, such as IoT platform insights
By: Marko Kallio / Skyfox
Data Economy
Strategic Urban Planning: Future-proof decision support with realistic modelling.
Mobility and Safety Simulations: Traffic forecasting, evacuations, risk analysis.
Asset Monitoring: Buildings and parks with AI-powered condition detection.
Business & Citizen Services: Data-driven services, immersive experiences & community engagement.
Education and Tourism: Virtual tours and educational content for schools and visitors.
Investment Promotion: High-quality city data supporting investor discussions.
Continuous Development: New services, improved processes, and a safer, smarter city.
AERIAL IMAGING AND 3D MODELLING
Bringing the city-centre to life
Data Economy
Tampere’s Long-Term Goal for the AR platform
Case Hämeenkatu AR
Benefits for the City and Its Stakeholders
- Enhances the urban experience with context-aware content
- Strengthens companies’ digital touchpoints
- Provides a new publishing channel for cultural and event organizers
- Enables analysis of visitor flows and content engagement
- Offers a scalable foundation for expanding to other areas and events
- Technical sustainability, modularity, and manageability
- Works across multiple devices (e.g. mobile)
- Supports dynamic and location-based content creation
- Enables precise placement and updating of content in the urban space
- Based on open APIs and centralized content management
Strategic Significance: A New Capability for the City
- Ability to develop, publish, and manage AR content within the city’s own digital environment
- A unified and managed operating model: technical platform + content creation + governance
- Supports the city’s strategy as a data-driven, human-centered, & participatory service provider
First Pilot: Hämeenkatu AR case
- Focused on mobile use (smartphones and tablets)
- Serves as the foundation for further technical and content development
- Demonstrates the core principles of the platform solution in practice
Data Economy
Vision of the concept
Data Economy
Vision of the concept
Experience Rakas Tampere Pass benefits through augmented reality on your phone
Data Economy
City Experience and History
- Well-known sights, architecture, and stories about notable Tampere residents
- Vapriikki Museum Centre: Tampere 1918 exhibition
- Yle’s archival material and historical recordings
Content and touchpoints
Nature and Mobility
- Urban nature and key outdoor and recreational destinations
- Real-time bus and tram information from Nysse (digital stop displays)
- Route suggestions and location-based navigation
Culture and Events
- Current events, festivals, and exhibitions
- Art, digital cultural content, and student collaboration exhibitions
Services and Local Economy
Opening hours and service tips from museums to shopping centres
Location-based offers and campaigns by local businesses
Services and Local Economy
Opening hours and service tips from museums to shopping centres
Location-based offers and campaigns by local businesses
Data Economy
Opportunities with security authorities
Written agreement on a joint data pilot, such as with Wellbeing services county of Pirkanmaa
Making predictions that improve unit response times and data-driven decision-making
Data Economy
Tampere Pulse
Pulse is an AI-driven application that predicts visitor flows and seamlessly displays city centre events through an intuitive map interface. It is accessible on both the web and mobile devices.
The application has been developed in close collaboration with companies to address their unique challenges directly.
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Combines IoT platform data, such as weather, weekday and event data, with external sources
Over 570 business users in one year
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User groups
Residents
Businesses
Authorities
Data Economy
Tampere Pulse
Data Economy
Museum Centre Vapriikki
Data Pilot, Autumn 2024 (In Production)
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We count and forecast visitor numbers and visiting times at Vapriikki, the Finnish Ice Hockey Museum, the temporary exhibition space, and the entire 3rd floor.
- Visitor data was combined with ticket sales, museum shop, and restaurant sales data.
Benefits
- Staffing can be aligned with actual visitor flows and forecasts
- Visitor experience is improved with a public display and real-time information about congestion
- Visitors can see less crowded visiting times
- Enables smooth and accurate reporting, e.g. for the Ice Hockey Museum Foundation
In the future, the solution can be expanded to provide a foundation for other things, such as dynamic pricing.
Data Economy
Summer terrace data pilot
Data Economy
Tampere Market Hall
What We Do
- We modernize traditional visitor counting by integrating sensor data from counters into the city’s IoT platform for easy use and applications
- We forecast visitor volumes and visiting times
- We build automated reporting for the city and retailers
Benefits
- Reliable, real-time visitor data and forecasts
- Support for retailers in planning opening hours, resources, and events
- More efficient reporting: automated reports replace manual work
- The first implementation will be completed in October–November 2025
Data Economy
Experience Economy
Life-Enriching
Experiences
Tampere brings together IP-based and digitally replicable industries, fosters their growth with the university, and leverages the experiential value of culture through Cityverse pilots.
During the past five years, Tampere’s regional game industry has grown by 85%, the audiovisual sector
by 84%, and the event industry by 50%.
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Experience Economy / Cultural District Walk
Moomins
Moomins
Moomins
Moomins
Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was a visionary Finnish artist, painter, cartoonist
and comic strip author and writer, best known as the beloved creator of the Moomins characters.
Her work radiates warmth, courage and the beauty of individuality.
Her art and stories celebrate diversity, inclusivity, empathy and belonging.
Tove Jansson is best known as the beloved creator of the Moomins.
She created the enchanting Moominvalley as a counterbalance to the horrors
of war. The stories celebrate diversity and equality, embracing the differences among the characters. In the Moomin world, even the smallest creature matters. Warmth, acceptance and friendship ensure that everyone feels welcome in the Moominhouse.
Moomins
As a Guest In The Moomin House
An immersive VR experience in the "jewel" of the Moomin Museum collection
The Moominhouse (1979) is a unique masterpiece of imagination, play, and creativity by Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietilä, and Pentti Eistola. Almost every visitor to the Moomin Museum in Tampere sighs when they see the museum’s centrepiece: if only I could step inside! With VR glasses, visitors can now explore the Moominhouse themselves.
The Moominhouse symbolises everything essential in the Moomin stories:
everyone is welcome, everyone is cared for, and everyone is accepted just as
they are. This message is as timely in Tampere as it is internationally.
People & Participation
People & Participation
People & Participation
What is AI4Citizens?
- Duration: April 2024 – June 2028
- 7 partners
- Co-funded by the Interreg Europe programme
AI4Citizens aims to
- help people better understand and use AI, enhancing existing services and driving the development of a more predictive society
- build AI capabilities within city processes and equip citizens with the skills needed to actively contribute to the future of services. Through this, we can foster continuous learning and innovation, ensuring that AI benefits everyone
People & Participation
See Tomorrow Today:
Interactive Digital Twin for Tampere Station District
Smart Simulation Capabilities:
- Powered by open data and
game engines
Simulates:
- 🌦️ Weather conditions
- 💡 Lighting changes
- 🕒 Time-of-day and seasonal effects
Reveals how these factors influence:
- 🛡️ Perceived safety
- 🌇 Visual appeal
- 🧭 Usability of public spaces
WeGenerate Project Highlights:
- Developed a digital twin of Tampere Station District’s green public spaces.
- Enables visualization of movement,
data collection, and interactive planning - Fosters collaboration between urban planners, residents, and visitors
Why It Matters:
- Offers a real-time view of how
future development affects the
urban environment - Empowers citizens to participate
in shaping their city
People & Participation
People & Participation
A European project using XR and local digital twins (LTD) to make cities smarter, greener, and more inclusive.
Duration: Dec 2024 – May 2027. 11 partners + 1 affiliated entity.
Co-funded by the EU Digital Europe programme
x-CITE
x-CITE aims to
- Advance the development of the CitiVerse as a tool for
human-centric smart city development - Build a human-centric CitiVerse framework based on
European standards and ethics - Engage citizens through immersive technology and co-creation
- Test real solutions in the areas of urban planning, social engagement, culture and tourism in 3 pilot regions: Rotterdam, Tampere and Flanders
People & Participation
x-CITE
x-CITE
Enter the CitiVerse: Experience, Understand and Shape Your City
Her city’s history comes alive
Ella, a 13-year-old from Tampere, struggled to stay engaged in history class—until a visit to Tampere Cathedral changed everything. Through a mixed-reality guide, she witnessed what around 1,700 civilians lived through in 1918, walking their routes, hearing their stories, and seeing the city as they did. She left moved, empathetic, and genuinely connected to her city’s past—turning history into her favourite subject. Illustrative use case from Tampere. Discover more stories at xcitecitiverse.eu.
What is x-CITE?
x-CITE (Expanding the Experience of Citizens through Extended Reality) is a European project that uses immersive technologies to make cities smarter, greener, and more inclusive. By adding a digital interaction layer to urban life, x-CITE helps people engage with their environment in new and meaningful ways.
At the heart of x-CITE is the CitiVerse: an interactive Local Digital Twin of a city, built for citizens. It combines real-time urban data with immersive visualisations to make complex information easier to see, explore and understand. The CitiVerse is not just a digital replica of the city — it is a participatory platform that enables people to co-experience and co-shape their surroundings. With pilots in Tampere, Rotterdam and Flanders
and 12 different use cases, the CitiVerse is being tested in three
real-world domains:
- Urban planning – Help people shape their city in a simple, visual way, with scenario forecasts on mobility, air quality and noise to support healthier, higher-quality urban life.
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Culture and tourism – Bring history, art and landmarks to life
through immersive experiences. -
Citizen engagement – Enable easy and inclusive participation
in city decisions.
What is the CitiVerse?
People & Participation
x-CITE is powered by
People & Participation
What Smart City?
In Tampere, we invite residents to participate
in designing the Smart City.
That’s why we’re exploring smart city solutions together with Petra and Tamu – clearly and understandably.
We ask Tampere residents about the kind of smart city they envision and what hopes, concerns, and questions they have regarding smart solutions in the city.
This is possible when we share a common language and understanding of how to leverage data, new technologies and AI.
Petra & Tamu
People & Participation
People & Participation
People & Participation
People & Participation
Transport / Hervanta Digital Twin
Transport / Lyyli Living Lab video
TURMS Innovation Cluster
TURMS Innovation Cluster is an open RDI environment for city transport and mobility services that utilise trams as their core component and for related digital services.
Transport / TURMS
TURMS: Tampere Urban Rail Mobility Services
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The cluster companies are service and technology developers, service providers, associated start-ups, public sector actors, research organisations and service users.
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Lyyli Living Lab is the core of TURMS: a tramway testbed to facilitate inclusive innovation, developing, testing, validation and promotion of products in a real-world environment
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TURMS Operations are funded by Partner funding from the Cluster companies and the Innovation Cluster funding granted by Business Finland.
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The host organisation of Lyyli Living Lab is Tampere Tramway Ltd, and Lyyli Living Lab is part of the Testbed Finland network.
Lyyli Living Lab
Lyyli is a testbed and living lab arrangement built in the operative urban tram environment of Tampere, Finland
Transport / Lyyli Living Lab
First of its kind
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It allows inclusive innovation, developing, testing, validation and promotion of products in a real-world environment
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It gathers actors from all sectors and includes the citizens to co-create new product and service innovations for city mobility
Lyyli Living Lab Core
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Operative tram
Škoda ForCity Smart Artic X34
Max capacity: 264 passengers
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Tram is equipped with device rack, extra displays, 4/5G-connectivity, hw/sw environment, access to tram data and extra sensors for:
Hw/sw experiments in Living Lab development
Gathering data from tram
Engaging passengers in inclusive development
Transport / Lyyli Living Lab
Lyyli is not just a test tram
Tram look-alike @ depot
Light tram look-alike
Depot
Training simulator
Simulation environment
Laboratory
Transport / Lyyli Living Lab
Living Lab capabilities and context
Low-threshold experiments
Device hosting
Software hosting
Lyyli Display Utilisation
Accelerated development
Innovation ecosystem support
Allows effective marketing
Data Platform
Transport / Lyyli Living Lab
Transport / Lyyli Living Lab / ITS Factory
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