Kera projects and reports
Kera’s development work continuously produces new information on the circular economy and sustainable urban development. This page brings together all the studies and reports on Kera.
Reports
The exceptionally popular project allowing the temporary use of Keran Hallit from 2019 to 2025 generated a great deal of new insights into the prerequisites, possibilities and challenges of temporary use.
Insights gained from the final use of the Keran Hallit premises(external link, opens in a new window) (in Finnish)
Report on Kera tenants’ operational preconditions(external link, opens in a new window) (in Finnish)
The design competition organised in autumn 2022 sought innovative concepts for the reuse of building elements in the Kera area. The winning solutions were bold, innovative and created by multidisciplinary teams.
In summer 2022, we piloted a future street environment in Kera. The spatial installation invited visitors to experience and envision the streets of the future and the solutions needed to create them.
The carbon neutrality roadmap and emissions study, prepared to support the construction of a low-carbon district, help illustrate the scale and interrelationships of the impacts of different measures. The roadmap examines ways to achieve carbon neutrality in the areas of transport, construction and energy. The emissions study assesses the area’s emissions over the next 50 years.
Explore the carbon neutrality roadmap(external link, opens in a new window)
Explore the emissions study(external link, opens in a new window) (in Finnish)
Kera’s energy and electric mobility playbooks compile key highlights and lessons learned on energy and mobility solutions potentially suitable for the area.
Kera’s energy playbook(external link, opens in a new window) (in Finnish)
Kera’s e-mobility playbook(external link, opens in a new window) (in Finnish)
The report establishes concrete steps for implementing district-level energy services and solutions in Kera.
The energy ecosystem of the energy-positive district of Kera(external link, opens in a new window) (in Finnish)
The Cityfier study, based on Kera’s urban economy survey, researched the effects of the area’s two potential development paths and the related investment on the area’s value creation.
Cityfier final report (external link, opens in a new window)(in Finnish)
The assessment of nature values carried out in Kera in spring 2022 examined which measures could safeguard and improve the area’s nature values as the former logistics and industrial area is transformed into an urban centre of 14,000 residents.
Previous projects and pilots
The Sustainable Future Districts project developed new innovative solutions and services for the built environment. The aim was to make the districts’ structures, daily life and business more sustainable.
The SPARCS project explored and demonstrated innovative solutions for the design and deployment of intelligent and more sustainable energy systems to develop the city in a carbon-neutral and energy-positive direction together with its residents. In addition, the project looked at more sustainable mobility solutions and develop the functionality of transport hubs.
One of the key objectives of the international SPARCS project was to create a network of sustainable, energy-positive and carbon-free communities (Sustainable energy Positive & zero cARbon CommunitieS).
The Implementation Pathway for Environments that Accelerate Sustainable Growth project develops cooperation between businesses, educational institutes and research organisations, and creates concrete development environments to promote the green transition and digitalisation. The project will implement quickly-adoptable solutions and work on building the foundation for future jobs and competitive advantages.
Read more about KETO project via this link.
The RAKKE project will strengthen cooperation between the public and private sectors and promote innovation and business activities related to the development of low-carbon transport, energy, circular economy as well as clean and smart urban solutions. The aim of the project is to build effective ecosystems together with 100 companies and developers and create a foundation for increasingly efficient project and development activities.
Read more about RAKKE project via this link.
The ‘Smart and Clean – Collaborative Kera’ project was an urban development project coordinated by the City of Espoo. Through new partnerships, cooperation and operations models, the project supported the creation of the Kera city district that is based on carbon-neutral circular economy.
Read more about Smart and Clean - Collaborative Kera via this link.
In the project, Kera was developed as a district based on a circular and sharing economy, where new products and services are tried out in a genuine urban environment and cooperation is used to support the realisation of the circular economy.
The project tests and develops new services based on smart poles, promoting the construction, transport and maintenance of a more sustainable city. The pilot network of 19 smart poles and two smart bus stops is located north of Kera station. The smart poles allow, for example, the collection of local weather data or the operation of robot buses.
In the Smart and Clean Kera project, Kera is developed into an urban district where clean and smart solutions have been honed to perfection. The change is carried out together with partner companies, residents and other stakeholders by means of novel network-based cooperation. The aim is to create important solutions related to, for example, new energy solutions, means of transport and urban food production.