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Vienna's long-term, legally-binding smart-city strategy (first 2011, updated 2019/2022) aligning resource conservation, quality of life and social inclusion with annual monitoring.
Helsinki's city-owned innovation company co-creates smart-city, mobility and data solutions through agile pilots in real neighbourhoods (Smart Kalasatama, Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab).
Smart Open Lisboa (SOL) is a startup program focused on the validation and integration of innovative solutions meant to upgrade the citizens’ …
City-wide non-profit (founded 2013) steering Leuven toward climate neutrality via a quadruple-helix model of government, knowledge institutions, companies and citizens. From 60 …
“Unleash Your Geek” was part of the previous mayor’s vision of “unlocking the community’s potential.” The Strategic Partnerships team in the city …
£70 million allocated in areas affected by civil disturbances across London including 23 projects in 9 boroughs and 13 distinct locations
Tampere is building Hiedanranta, a 100-hectare district planned for 25,000 residents, as an open testbed for circular-economy, energy and smart-city experiments before …
BIP/ZIP is Lisbon’s Local Development Strategy for Priority Intervention areas which provides the city with a range of integrated toolboxes based on …
At Copenhagen Solutions Lab, they support the development of Copenhagen through testing and implementation of intelligent and data-driven solutions that support the …
The Socially Integrative City is a community-led local development scheme. This was originally a federal programme but Berlin refined it with a …
In 2008, San Jose became the first U.S. city to adopt a Demonstration Partnership Policy encouraging collaboration with the private sector and …
The City of Munich’s Innovation Challenge is an invitation to submit innovative ideas to solve specific challenges the city is facing. The …
City of Turin laboratory (Torino Living Lab from 2016, Torino City Lab from 2018) offering simplified conditions for companies to test innovative …
The Mayor’s Open Innovation Programme brings innovators together with local authorities and communities to co-design, test and scale solutions to London’s most …
Museum door de Stad travelled through the city of Eindhoven with pop-up installations inspired by the city and Eindhoven Museum’s cultural and …
This government measure formalizes and shapes the strategy of promoting innovation in the city as a means of leverage for transformation and …
The Gonesse Digital Factory [La Fabrique Numérique de Gonesse] is the first project of the Roissy Pays de France Agglomerations' (FR) digital …
Initiative of Dublin's four local authorities (since 2016) that runs real-world testbeds and SBIR challenge procurement so startups and SMEs pilot solutions …
Hangzhou's ET City Brain, co-developed by the city government and Alibaba Cloud, uses computer vision and ML to optimise traffic signals and …
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