Rīga is the smart choice for your innovations, offering a distinctive environment for developing and piloting new technologies, policies and sustainability initiatives. With its unique blend of historical and modern infrastructure, Rīga provides a comprehensive urban landscape ideal for real-world testing. Choose Rīga as your testbed for innovation, where the city itself becomes your partner in developing impactful solutions for the city of tomorrow.
Rīga offers various types of collaboration opportunities – cooperation in EU projects, through ecosystem partners activities, direct cooperation, and cooperation through open calls.
To access the advantages of Rīga testbed, it is important to address the city’s challenges that align with Rīga’s priorities. All the activities and solutions have to contribute to sustainable growth and a higher quality of life for the inhabitants.
It is possible to express interest in cooperation on smartriga.lv providing a clear description of the solution, technological readiness level and the desired test results. The Smart Rīga team will review the application based on the following process:
If the proposed solution corresponds to the necessary criteria, Smart Rīga team will help with the deployment process by contributing to use-case development, suitable location assignment, coordination process amongst various stakeholders involved in the deployment process.
The solutions can be deployed and tested for up to one year.
Piloting costs, if not stated otherwise, are not covered by the city.
Smart Rīga offers the opportunity to use the city as a testbed to develop and deploy solutions, but it does not include the guarantee for procurement.