Smart City Challenge 2025, presenting solution ideas

Hybrid session: Smart City Solution Ideas

Join us for the 5th round of the Smart City Challenge!

Please review the proposed solution ideas here (will be available after November 30).

During this hybrid session, the solution ideas will be introduced and explained in more detail. It will be the right place and time to find the right solution for your urban challenge, and start forming initial teams with researchers and entrepreneurs to prepare a pilot project proposal.

WHEN?

December 9, 2025

10:45-16:00 (Estonian time) / 9:45–15:00 (CET)

WHERE?

Hybrid:

  • Onsite at TalTech IT College (Raja tn 4, Tallinn, room ICO-316).
  • Online via Zoom (you’ll receive the Zoom link with a calendar invitation after you’ve registered).

Please register by December 4.

How to submit a solution idea?

Researchers, entrepreneurs and other urban innovators – submit your solution ideas to the urban challenges.

Send your idea to solve challenge(s) on the template to smartcity@taltech.ee by November 30. 

If you’re a researcher from another university, find a challenge you’d like to propose a solution idea for and contact a researcher or research team from Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) to develop it together.

You can find more information and contacts here:

Ajakava

10.45-11.00

Coffee and registration

11.00-11.30

Introduction to the workshop and reminder of the Smart City Challenge process.

Külle Tärnov
Head of Innovation & Smart City Challenge Coordinator
FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

11.30-12.30

Solution idea pitches – part I

12.30-13.15

Lunch and networking

13.15-14.45

Solution idea pitches – part II

 

14.45-15.00

Snacks and networking

15.00-16.00

Solution idea pitches – part III

16.00-16.10

Reminder of the next steps

Külle Tärnov

16.10

End of the day

Speakers and moderators

Külle Tärnov, MBA

Head of Innovation, Estonia
FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

Tallinn University of Technology