How does the good life work within planetary limits? How can we live in a climate-friendly way in the future? How can we travel affordably, climate-neutrally — privately and professionally? How do we make it possible for everyone to eat as regionally and environmentally friendly as possible? These questions can only be answered together, co-creatively and with a new understanding of innovation.

The Innovation Booster Future Urban Society promotes radically new approaches to catapult the best ideas in the interconnected areas of housing, mobility and nutrition out of their niche. Bring along your solutions and develop them further with other experts and innovators. Help mainstream eco-social innovations and secure yourself and your team for jointly developed ideas of up to CHF 25,000.

Mehr zur Grundidee des Innovation Boosters von Innosuisse →

From 45 ideas, 10 were selected and these are now being supported in our Innovation Booster.

Alle Ideen Entdecken

The following events and workshops still await us during the next couple of months:

As a national program with a regional character, we work closely with various cities and municipalities. For 2024, together with the City of Zurich, we have IG Klimagenossenschaft and Atelier «Lebenswerte Quartiere» as part of the BKW Initiative «Lebensräume 2025» identified two challenges:

Climate crisis, destruction of biodiversity, energy crisis — we live in a world of multiple crises. Mastering these challenges requires radically new ideas and approaches, both technologically and socially.

Ob Share, Repair oder DIY – viele innovative Ansätze, Projekte und Ideen für ein klimagerechtes Leben im urbanen Raum bleiben klein. Nicht weil sie im Grundsatz nicht funktionieren, sondern weil sie meist verschiedene Bereiche unseres Lebens betreffen, weil es nicht einfach ist, unsere Gewohnheiten zu ändern und die unterschiedlichsten Akteur:innen mitmachen müssen bei der Umsetzung. Die Verstetigung oder Verbreitung von integrativen Ansätzen funktioniert anders als bei rein kommerziellen Angeboten. Daher möchten wir in unserem Innovation Booster ökosoziale Innovationen verstärken und skalieren, um sie im Mainstream zu etablieren.

The major challenges of our time can only be overcome by working together with people from different sectors of society. That is why the booster uses an open innovation approach. Over the next four years, we will bring together key actors from civil society, science and business with city administrations, currently from Zurich, Basel and Lausanne. Together, systemic problems are researched and radical ideas for sustainable solutions are developed.

To enable and accelerate innovation, we connect cities and administrations with eco-social innovators as well as stakeholders from the private sector and science. We can financially support ideas that arise and/or are developed through the Innovation Booster Program with up to CHF 25,000, including vouchers for expert advice and coaching. In this way, we make it possible for promising innovations to be further developed and tested in urban areas of Switzerland. In addition, together with our partners, we are working to ensure that further implementation of the innovations after the booster is likely.
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Die erste Einreiche-Phase ist vorbei und es können zurzeit keine weiteren Projekte eingegeben werden.

Meso Innovation Alliance
‍The Booster Future Urban Society is supported by Meso as a Co-Leading House and is characterized by the expertise of the following organizations:

Urban innovation is only possible through strong partnerships with cities and municipalities. That is why we are particularly proud of our implementation partnerships:

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