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The #connectedinEurope Project: Empowering Smart Cities

The #connectedinEurope Project offers cities and municipalities the opportunity to network across Europe on topics relating to digital urban transformation and to explore these topics in greater depth in web seminars.

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The #connectedinEurope Project

"Empowering smart cities: Action approaches for European networking" - "#connectedinEurope" for short - addresses the need for bundling and support to involve small and medium-sized municipalities in European networks, projects and initiatives for digital transformation. Through European dialogue with institutional stakeholders, municipalities are learning how the digital transformation can contribute to implementing the goals of sustainable, integrated urban development geared towards the common good at European and national level. At the same time, European networking means that municipalities gain knowledge about innovative, proven solutions for digital urban development - beyond national borders. This creates resilient partnerships, collegial advice and opportunities for professional exchange on replicable projects.

The project therefore aims to systematically involve municipalities in European networks, projects and initiatives, analyse them, develop them further and offer support options. This includes offers such as peer learning and specialist workshops to establish and consolidate their own networking activities, as well as promoting networking between the ministries responsible for urban development and digitalisation and institutional players at EU level.

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The core activities of the project are information, qualification and empowerment of German and European municipalities for European networking. To this end, the project team provides the municipalities with practical tools and knowledge to establish and consolidate their own networking activities through peer learning programmes and specialist workshops. At the same time, the project is further developing national and European networks on digitalisation and urban development. The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) is providing technical support for the project. #connectedinEurope runs until December 2024.

Peer Learning Tandems

Networking on the topic of sustainable and digital urban development enables a direct exchange between municipal partners, deepens the understanding of common challenges, facilitates the identification of potential solutions, enables the transfer of knowledge and expertise and strengthens the motivation to act. In order to achieve these goals, the #connectedinEurope project team launched a call for participation for German and other European municipalities. 

From December 2, 2021, to February 25, 2022, municipalities were able to apply for participating in six peer learning partnerships on the topic of digital urban development/smart cities.

  • Sofia (Bulgaria) - Krefeld (Germany)
  • Arezzo (Italy) - Hamm (Germany)
  • Vari Voula Vouliagmeni (Greece) - Geestland (Germany)
  • Utrecht (Netherlands) - Munich (Germany)
  • Alba Iulia (Romania) - Arnsberg (Germany)
  • Basel (Switzerland) - Mulhouse (France) - Freiburg (Germany)

 

Eine Karte Europas mit Markierungen auf den Mitgliedsstädten des Programms #vernetztinEuropa.

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