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The final online workshop of the #connectedinEurope project took place in December. The participating municipalities exchanged views on possibilities for continuation and scaling, and explored further project threads. The #CIE cities will continue working together on the common-good-oriented development of smart cities and regions in the future.

On 16 September 2024, a day before the 4th OECD Roundtable on Smart Cities and Inclusive Growth, the participating cities of the #connectedinEurope programme of the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building met in Paris for their final on-site meeting. A packed agenda encompassed specific discussion points on datasets and digital twins, the summary of exchange activities and a collection of next steps for after the programme.

As the host city Freiburg included a marked international perspective to its regional conference for Germany's Model Projects Smart Cities (MPSC), the ISCN and #connectedinEurope shared experiences, keynotes and a workshop session on how to enhance smart city development with regional and international integration.

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer, Enoh Tabak and Sandra Schett from the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) presented the outcomes of the #connectedinEurope project. Discover how peer-to-peer exchanges among 12 European cities have driven smart city development through collaborative efforts in areas such as digital twins, data spaces, and open data exchange.

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer, Shanmathi Rajkumar and Paul Stadelhofer from TU Dresden presented the U_CAN project, which supports Ukraine’s transition to carbon-neutral and smart urban development. U_CAN, funded by the European Union’s Horizon program, connects six Ukrainian pilot cities with European counterparts to implement tailored innovations and drive smart urban development through knowledge-sharing initiatives.

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer, Serena Mombelli and Patricio Reyes from vCity, a platform led by the Data Analytics and Visualization Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, shared insights on how data-driven analysis can support human-centred urban planning and policy-making. In this session they present a use case approximating in greater detail whether high-risk groups have adequate access to Barcelona's climate shelters during heatwaves.

During the Smart Country Convention 2024 in Berlin, the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) will hold a side event and open "working session" on the road towards UN Habitat's development of guidelines on people-centred smart cities.

Smart Cities will only be sustainable if they nurture and enhance their green (and blue) infrastructure. This Online Advisory Programme (OAP) of the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) will dive deeper into measures that try to skillfully and meaningfully combine the realms of technology and nature for a greener common good-oriented urban development.

How to make the comprehensive experiences in smart city development tangible and portable so that others can take them up easily? In this ISCN Global Mixer, Dr Beate Ginzel and Elisabeth Breitenstein from Leipzig present their Digital Playbook as a living document and invite all of us to be “copycats” in using and remixing the playbook and feeding back into future drafts!