About the Innovation Week

The Innovation Week offers the opportunity for everyone within the public sector to spread the word about their experience of new smart solutions. What we all have in common is that we are committed to innovate the public sector in Sweden. An innovative and collaborative public sector is crucial for the renewal of welfare and in addressing the societal challenges.  The idea is to mobilize the public sector to share ideas, work and solutions for a more innovative public sector.

Everyone who contributes to public sector innovation are welcome to arrange activities during the week. With joint forces activities are offered all over Sweden both physically and digitally. Each organizer design and carry out their own activity. All registered activities are published and searchable on the site Innovationsveckan.nu that shows the whole programme for the week, free of charge.

The Innovation Week is being organized for the sixth year in a row. This year, we want to draw attention to how we might spread and scale innovative solutions whitin the public sector.

How to register an activity (in Swedish)

FAQ

SKR (Sweden’s Association of Local Authorities and Regions), Vinnova (Sweden’s Innovation Agency), and the Swedish Agency for Public Procurement (Upphandlingsmyndigheten) are the initiators of Innovations Week and provide the platform where different organisers can register their activities.

Innovations Week is held every year. This year it runs during week 41, October 6-10.

Innovations Week is a distributed conference. This means that the actor who has submitted an activity is responsible for their own programme item.

Registration of activities can be done up until the week of the event.

Yes, in many cases you actually can! Here you will find a list of previously held activities that you can access afterwards.

It is free for organisers to register activities.

Any actors who contribute to enabling the public sector to meet future challenges are welcome to organise activities during the week. Each activity must have an organising or participating party from the public sector and/or civil society. The organisers themselves create and are responsible for their programmes and activities.

Everyone is welcome to take part in Innovations Week’s activities.

All questions regarding a particular event are answered by the organiser.

If an event requires registration, this will be indicated in the programme.

The programme is published in August and continues growing right up until the week starts.