Projects in Social innovation

RISE is conducting a socio-economic analysis of the real estate company Hemmaplan's efforts in Gottsunda Centrum, with support from SROI and GLP. The purpose of the analysis is to highlight and evaluate the economic and social impacts generated by the center's development and its repercussions on t…

Gällivare Narratives explores how mining communities can become more attractive, inclusive, and sustainable through design research, system innovation, and local collaboration. With people's stories at the center, we develop concrete tools for building the communities of the future.

The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of robust and well-functioning public spaces in cities and communities. It also revealed, through emerging everyday patterns, the need to rethink how we use these “urban living rooms” in the future. This challenge formed the starting point for the pr…

Visualizations used in urban development are often based on stereotypical representations of age, gender and ethnicity. At the same time, visualizations can serve as powerful tools to contribute to more accessable and inclusive design solutions. NormViz developed methods and training for norm-creat…

Climate neutral Luleå 2030 is a collaborative initiative exploring innovative forms of cooperation, processes, and working methods to enable the transformative changes needed to accelerate the climate transition—both within and beyond the municipality. At the heart of the project is the creation of…

The City of Gothenburg and RISE are conducting and evaluating a new survey about parenthood!

The URSOILL project will establish five Living Labs across diverse climatic zones and socio-economic contexts in Europe. Each lab will serve as a collaborative hub where researchers, municipalities, businesses, and citizens co-create and test innovative practices for urban soil restoration:

Over the past year, Sundsvall Municipality, Din Tur, and the research institute RISE have examined mobility challenges in Sundsbruk. Through dialogue with residents and decision-makers, they have established a new foundation of knowledge about future perspectives and the importance of efficient tra…

School choice policies and demographic shifts place new demands on how municipality schools are sited and organised. In this R&I project, RISE — working with two local authorities and twelve schools — developed a prototype valuation tool that incorporates the perceived and economic value of accessi…

Senior residence Flaggskeppet provided in-depth knowledge of how we should build the elderly residence of the future. It contributed to an increased quality of life for the residents, more cost-effective operations and a good working environment.

This interdisciplinary research aims to offer new perspectives on how integrating the participation of the autism community in public transport planning processes can help initiate and improve the social participation of individuals with ASD in society.

In this project we explore - through an co-creation design driven process - what happens if we explore how AI, gaming methodology, and, for example, norm creativity can contribute to make gender equality top of mind in the everyday life of the industry? 

Innovation within the public sector through shared leadership and self-leadership for health and well-being 

From policy to practice – developing new ways of working for self-leadership and shared leadership 

Do consumers perceive homes as more valueable if they include access to sharing services? CDCUL is a multi-national research project that will use choice modelling and other methods to determine whether consumers are willing to pay extra to share appliances, facilities, and spaces with their neighb…

Center facilities bring together shops, restaurants and services. Properly designed, such environments can contribute to not only economic but also a range of social values. In this project, RISE collaborates with the real estate company Hemmaplan to develop and test new working methods and models …

RISE is conducting a current situation analysis that will clarify the prevailing conditions for the urban area of Frövi in Lindesberg municipality. In addition, Frövi's community development needs must be investigated in a local, municipal and regional context.

Energy poverty is a relatively new term in Sweden and needs to be mapped conceptually, geographically and in policy. This project is based on previous research in the group that worked with building stock analysis at RISE to map energy poverty in Sweden, as support for Swedish authorities as well a…

The purpose of the project is to use the segregation barometer and analyze data from the segregation barometer in conjunction with data from energy declarations and the property register to explain the development of segregation and its impact in Sweden. This is done to make Delmos's work useful fo…

Public space should be accessible to all, and support a transition to sustainable lifestyles and business communities. However, in practice, prioritizations always need to be made. This project wants to generate knowledge on how actors in public space design in practice go about evaluating differen…

In the project, safety and segregation are analyzed using register data and property owners' customer satisfaction surveys. The focus is on the housing stock owned by and the investments made by the property owners within Framtiden in Gothenburg. The project is a doctoral project. At the national l…

We know that if men traveled like women, Umeå municipality were to reach its climate targets on passenger transport. In order to break traditional travel patterns and reduce the climate impact, we wanted to increase knowledge about how norms, identity and contextual driving forces affect the choice…

Malmö Stad, as part of their climate contract, wanted to engage citizens in a climate dialogue. We carried out research and developed a digital citizen dialogue tool to motivate citizens into actions towards more environmentally friendly behaviour, and to understand what support they require from t…

Safety issues are a core concern in the design and management of today's urban environments. However, it is not always obvious that existing knowledge on what generates feelings of safety for different parts of the population (based on e.g. gender, age and ethnicity) has an impact on actual urban d…

DIGG (Agency for Digital Government) are working on a vision of public services 2030. In order to better understand the needs around Life Events, research was carried out focused around citizen dialogues to provide the base for creating a digital roadmap in the public sector. Material produced from…

BHBG is a project that aimed to make visible equaliy- and sustainability issues related to building homes and living in our homes. We involved young people to join a dialogue facilitated through practical work and drama methodology.

The media is an important part of the democratic system, in which the media, government and citizens have roles to play. The role of journalism in informing, reviewing and offering forums for debate is central to this and to the societal challenge that the project focuses on.

In this project RISE explored both end-users' and stakeholders' perspectives on how to design a smart sign; an aesthetic, integrated, dynamic part of the smart city.

RISE has been given the task to follow up on Vinnova's program focused on universal design (a governmental assignment from 2017-2020). The aim of the program has been to ensure that organisational development, environments and services are universally designed, so that they become accessible and us…

RISE worked together with academia, industry and the public sector in the Virtual Gothenburg Lab project to explore and develop a test bed for visualised city data and better understand how to use Gothenburg’s digital twin, Virtual Gothenburg.

Around the world, cities and communities are striving towards creating safe places. In this project RISE, in cooperation with Center for AMP, developed a research based method for measuring and valuing the quality of public spaces in terms of their safety, as well as other variables.

IRIS is a five-year EU project starting 1 October 2017. Within IRIS, we will find and test new solutions for urban development within energy, mobility and ICT. In total, 43 players from 9 countries collaborate. Johanneberg Science Park coordinates the project on behalf of the City of Gothenburg.