Torino City Lab — real-world urban testing laboratory

Torino City Lab is a City of Turin initiative that creates simplified conditions for companies to test innovative solutions of public interest in real urban conditions, tracing back to the 2016 Torino Living Lab and formally launched as Torino City Lab in October 2018, involving around 90 national and international public and private partners.

To pair an always-open invitation to test solutions with challenge-led calls addressing territorial, administrative and citizen needs, organised around Smart Life, Future Mobility and Climate Neutrality (net-zero by 2030).

Ongoing real-world testing of solutions including a drone for organ transport (October 2024) and the AuToMove autonomous shuttle; in 2021 it spun off CTE NEXT (House of Emerging Technologies, financed by the Ministry of Economic Development, focused on 5G-enabled tech transfer) and in 2023 the ToMove living lab extended work into connected and autonomous mobility.

An impact assessment of the CTE NEXT urban innovation lab found accelerated startups showed +46% new hires, +91% female workforce, +20% share capital and +46% ROI. Turin was named European Capital of Innovation (iCapital) for 2024/25 and is a member of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL).