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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.

The #connectedinEurope Project

In the coming years, the European Green Deal and the Digital Europe Programme will play a central role in the implementation of European regulations and the design of funding instruments. One of the aims is to develop European municipalities into smart cities. This requires a European exchange between institutional players and municipalities on how the digital transformation can contribute to realising the goals of sustainable, integrated urban development that is oriented towards the common good at European and national level.

The project addresses the pronounced need for structured bundling and support for the participation of municipalities in European networks, projects and initiatives in the field of "digital transformation and urban development". For the municipalities, networking not only brings knowledge transfer on innovative and proven practices in digital urban development across borders, but also resilient partnerships, collegial advice and opportunities for subject-centred exchange on replicable projects. To this end, the project systematically analyses and supports the participation of municipalities in European networks, projects and initiatives.

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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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