SPIS Social Progress Innovation Sweden
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Umeå kommun |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 7 919 362 |
| Project duration | March 2020 - December 2023 |
| Status | Completed |
Important results from the project
The innovation platform has strengthened the city´s innovation capacity and Umeå municipality´s ability to solve complex societal and sustainability challenges by building and establishing an internal organization that drives and supports culture, structure and capacity for innovation and futureoriented development. This has taken place through broad cooperation within Umeå Municipality´s administrations and project as well as the surrounding society in the form of other organisations, companies, civil society and citizens.
Expected long term effects
Overall results of the work is that innovation (jan 2024) is organized at the city management office in Umeå municipality and has a broad mandate to drive and support innovation work in all administrations. Through the platform, Umeå municipality has employed two innovation leaders and a process manager who focuses on citizendriven innovation. The platform has given the municipalitys leaders and employees increased knowledge about working methods for innovation, courage to test and develop ideas and prototypes and increased ability to adjust based on the city´s complex challenges.
Approach and implementation
The innovation platform has been a versatile project with several subactivities that have been run in parallel. The platform has built organizational conditions for systematic innovation work together with the organization´s management and the platform has carried out work to increase the organization´s innovation culture and ability by testing new ways of working, for example Innovationslabbet, Testhuset and the Umecom medborgarverkstad. In all this, Umeå municipality has practiced a lot in cooperation with the surrounding community and the customers we exist for.