The Urban Wellbeing Lab project aims to strengthen business-driven innovation and RDI activities in the field of wellbeing. Through the project, city actors, research organizations, and companies join forces to improve local wellbeing. At the same time, the project utilizes urban environments as testing grounds and leverages data collaboration to accelerate the growth and competitiveness of businesses. In addition to traditional health technology companies, companies from other sectors are also involved, and their expertise is utilized to develop wellbeing in urban environments. The project combines innovation and experimentation with local wellbeing data and a collaborative RDI model, bringing a new perspective to urban piloting platforms. The primary target group of the project is growth-oriented SMEs and start-ups that develop wellbeing-promoting solutions, technologies, and services in urban environments. Companies that want to develop new business and innovations in the field of wellbeing are also part of the target group. The main goal of the project is to strengthen the RDI activities and innovation capacity of SMEs. This is implemented through three sub-goals: - More efficient utilization of wellbeing data strengthens the innovation capacity of the target group companies. - Collaboration between businesses, RDI organizations, and cities on the theme of wellbeing in urban environments is intensified. - New innovative wellbeing solutions and business opportunities are created. According to a study (2025) commissioned by the City of Helsinki's Economic Development Department, health and wellbeing companies need closer contact with decision-makers and more collaboration with companies and organizations working on similar problems. Companies expect the city to play a more active role in facilitating collaboration within the ecosystem, and the project's RDI model aims to meet this need. In addition, the challenges faced by companies in obtaining funding and the insufficient budgets of public research projects and pilots were highlighted. Although the development of testing grounds has been carried out in previous projects, companies still hope for more testing and piloting opportunities with the support of city experts. Data collaboration between the public and private sectors in the context of urban environments and wellbeing needs development and functional models. Data produced by the public sector is still underutilized in the innovation and development work of companies, and collaboration has not been systematically facilitated. At the same time, the potential of companies as producers of wellbeing data has not yet been sufficiently utilized. The project develops a local wellbeing data framework and an impact model that support the innovation and RDI activities of the city, companies, and other stakeholders. The impact model will be published as an open operating model so that it can be adopted in other cities and companies. The RDI model to be developed strengthens collaboration between actors, and the Pilot Wellbeing testing ground will create new data-driven wellbeing solutions that will be tested in selected areas. At the same time, new RDI collaboration will emerge through the operating model and co-creation. The long-term impacts of the project will be seen in the strengthening of urban RDI ecosystems, new business opportunities for SMEs, and the development of regional wellbeing and innovation environments. During the project, operating models will be created to utilize wellbeing data, testing grounds, and RDI ecosystem collaboration in the long term, even after the project ends. In addition, the international networks strengthened during the project will promote the emergence of new RDI collaboration initiatives. In the long term, data-driven wellbeing solutions developed on urban testing grounds will remain permanently on the market and scale more broadly. This will improve the accessibility of services and the attractiveness of regions. The results of the project can be replicated in other regions and cities through the developed testing ground and impact models. The project supports the EU's sustainable development principles and several regional and national programs and strategies, such as the Uusimaa Smart Specialization Strategy, which emphasizes the importance of sustainable growth and innovation. It also promotes the ERDF program's Specific Objective 1.1 by strengthening the competitiveness of companies in the region and developing data-driven testing ground activities focused on wellbeing. In addition, the project supports the PA Health of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region.