Urban Innovation Vienna (UIV) is Vienna's dedicated agency for coordinating and implementing smart city and climate innovation projects across the Austrian capital. Operating as a subsidiary of Wien Holding, the city's municipal holding company, UIV serves as the strategic implementation arm of Vienna's Smart City Framework Strategy, one of Europe's most comprehensive and long-standing municipal smart city programmes.
UIV coordinates Vienna's smart city activities across multiple domains including energy, mobility, buildings, and digital infrastructure, ensuring that individual projects contribute to the city's overarching goals of carbon neutrality, high quality of life, and innovation-driven economic growth. The agency manages a portfolio of EU-funded research and innovation projects, positioning Vienna as an active participant in European smart city networks and securing significant external funding for the city's innovation activities.
The agency plays a key role in Vienna's participation in lighthouse smart city projects funded by the European Commission, which test integrated urban solutions at district scale and share results with follower cities across Europe. These projects have addressed topics including positive energy districts, smart mobility hubs, citizen engagement in urban innovation, and data-driven urban planning.
UIV also manages Vienna's international smart city partnerships, facilitating knowledge exchange with partner cities and representing Vienna in global smart city forums and rankings. The agency's communication activities ensure that Vienna's smart city achievements are visible internationally, supporting the city's reputation as a global leader in urban quality of life and innovation.
Urban Innovation Vienna's combination of strategic coordination, project implementation, international networking, and knowledge management makes it a critical enabler of Vienna's smart city ambitions, ensuring that the city's considerable innovation activities are coherent, well-connected, and aligned with long-term sustainability goals.