In Aarhus, the entire city has the potential to become your next digital playground.
Aarhus City Lab provides access and assistance for AI and robotics testing in real-life settings and in close collaboration with the relevant authorities and domain experts. This helps your company to not only do technical testing, but also establish a valuable dialogue with the city administration about needs and potential benefits and barriers.
Test your robot technology in the living city where the surface, weather, traffic, or obstacles might vary giving you a real-life experience. At Aarhus City Lab, we can offer you dedicated testing zones depending on your needs and maturity, or a tailormade approach with the possibility to test all over the city.
This service offers you the opportunity to collect city data as the basis for your next AI innovation. Get assistance in setting up your own sensors, radars, cameras etc. to make use of IoT infrastructure and create customized datasets.
Get matched with companies that can address your public sector challenges while uncovering new opportunities through existing product development. Receive support in articulating your needs, permits and compliance guidance (AI, GDPR, IT security), and participate in facilitated meetings with relevant AI innovators to explore testing AI or robotics solutions.
Explore the potential of generative AI in the public sector through GDPR-compliant, real-world experiments in municipal settings, ranging from secure, limited LLMs to broader GenAI tools. Co-design tailored pilot projects with municipalities to gain practical technical, legal, and organizational insights that support informed decisions on scaling, procurement, and implementation.
Opportunity Assesment for Public Institutions
Public Service GENAI sandboxing
Opportunity Assesment for Public Institutions
IoT Smart dataset for AI Innovation
Public Service GENAI sandboxing
Opportunity Assesment for Public Institutions
Initiating GovTech Innovation
In the initial exploration phase, we assess how your solution can match relevant municipal needs and agendas and facilitate dialogue with the right municipal partners.
Once a clear match is established, the process moves into the testing phase, where a tailored test is designed and carried out with support from Aarhus City Lab as your single point of entry.
E-mail: aarhuscitylab@aarhus.dk
SUCCESS STORY. In CitCom, the interaction between companies, cities, and other public institutions is crucial. Aarhus has an ambition to be a city where companies can easily test and develop green and digital solutions in close cooperation with the municipality. Therefore, Aarhus City Lab is working to create a link between companies, research institutions, students, and municipal departments so new digital solutions can be tested in a real-world environment to the benefit of both company product development and municipal core services.
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