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Helsinki Energy Challenge seeks answers to find a sustainable heating solution for the capital – Solved offers an online Collaboration Platform for the challenge

by Solved, May 4th 2020

Can you and your team create the future of urban heating? The global Helsinki Energy Challenge is a one-million-euro competition determined to answer the question: How can we decarbonize the heating of Helsinki, using as little biomass as possible?

The City of Helsinki will hold two live broadcasts in the coming months to answer your questions about the challenge, for example: Why is the competition being organized? What do I need to do to participate? and What are the different steps of the competition process?

Energy experts will also provide key facts about Helsinki’s current heating system. In fact, you will learn everything you need to know to join in. The livestreams will also include Q&A sessions, so if there’s something we’ve missed, feel free to ask. If you are already ready to join the Challenge, you can apply through the application portal: applychallenge.hel.fi

Mayor of Helsinki Jan Vapaavuori will kick off the broadcasts with a keynote address.

Follow the livestreams on the Helsinki Channel online video service

Find more online events on Helsinki Energy Challenge’s website https://energychallenge.hel.fi/ and don’t forget to check it regularly for updates!

Are you interested in participating in the Helsinki Energy Challenge, but need more team members? Welcome to the Collaboration Platform!

We believe great innovation is often the result of multidisciplinary collaboration and diverse teamwork. Therefore, while the Helsinki Energy Challenge competition is open to everyone across the world – startups, companies, research institutions, universities, individual experts, consortiums – in effect, anyone who can provide sustainable solutions to urban heating, we ask that applicants join the Challenge as a team.

The City of Helsinki has opened an online Collaboration Platform for the Helsinki Energy Challenge to support team formation and innovator networking. All new users to solved.fi platforms, please register to HEC Collaboration Platform https://hec.solved.fi/register.

In case, you already have an account in some of the solved.fi platforms, please send a chat message or email a note to [email protected] and you will be automatically added to the HEC Collaboration Platform.

By joining Helsinki Energy Challenge Collaboration Platform, you will gain:

  • Access to discussion area reserved for individuals and organizations that want to find a team or offer a position in a team. Post your advertisement and find the best talent and the winning team!
  • Visibility to your company or organization and for the products, services and solutions you can provide to the Challenge.
  • Access to a large network of other top experts (via Solved 6,000+ experts) that you can utilize for finding subcontractors or partners for consortiums.

Please note that this Collaboration Platform is used only for the communication among Helsinki Energy Challenge participants – not with the organizers of the Helsinki Energy Challenge. They should be contacted through the website of the competition: https://energychallenge.hel.fi/contact.

For more information about how to use this Collaboration Platform, please see the information in the module Infos & Platform Updates: https://hec.solved.fi/activities/channels/list.

About the Helsinki Energy Challenge

The Helsinki Energy Challenge is a challenge competition, open globally to anyone who can propose a sustainable heating solution for Helsinki – consortiums, start-ups, larger and more established companies, research institutions, universities, research groups and individual experts. The only requirement is that participants should join the competition as a team. The challenge is open for submissions from February 27, 2020.

Despite the world situation caused by the coronavirus, the City of Helsinki keeps investing heavily in its climate work. In order to get the best possible result out of the Helsinki Energy Challenge even in this changed situation, it has been decided that the registration phase is prolonged. The prolonged registration phase ends on 30 September 2020. The finalist teams invited to the second phase of the competition are announced in the beginning of November and the winner of the competition will be revealed in March 2021. The winning solution(s) will be awarded with one million euros.