Areas of Expertise

Smart city: Strategy and governance

Comprehensive consulting services for the development of forward-looking smart city strategies, integrating global best practices and cutting-edge methodologies for strategic intelligence & futures thinking; vision & priority setting; evidence-based strategy & intervention logic; action & implementation planning, defining flagship initiatives, and structuring a roadmap with clear milestones, budgets, and governance mechanisms.

Smart city: Monitoring and impact assessment

Advanced analytical tools and methodologies to assess the effectiveness of smart city initiatives, ensuring evidence-based decision-making through indicator selection & data analytics; integrated monitoring frameworks; benchmarking & performance management, leveraging balanced scorecards, international benchmarks, and urban sustainability frameworks to compare progress against leading global cities.

Smart city: Applications and platforms development

Designing and deploying cutting-edge digital solutions that drive urban transformation, to sustain efficiency and growth across area-, activity-, and network-based city ecosystems; deploying citizen-centric solutions that improve urban liveability, pollution reduction, social inclusion, and sustainable urban districts; and decision-making and governance through digital twins, data-driven policymaking, collaborative and AI-powered public safety solutions.

Innovation systems analysis and innovation strategy

Leveraging data-driven methodologies and insights to enhance regional and sectoral innovation capacities through innovation mapping & intelligence; performance measurement & benchmarking; Smart Specialisation Strategies implementing evidence-based research and innovation tailored to regional strengths and global competitiveness; impact assessment employing AI-driven analytics and quantitative evaluation methods to measure policy effectiveness and long-term innovation impact.

Digital platforms for collaborative innovation

Including Ecosystem-Focused Platforms that support dynamic complementor interactions, data-driven optimisation, and commercialisation; Intra-Industry Platforms that connect industry stakeholders, fostering supply chains, knowledge exchange, and collaborative R&D; Innovation & Co-Creation Networks that enable academia, government, businesses, and end-users to co-develop solutions, driving open innovation and sustainable impact.

Solutions for Smart Cities

We promote the development of cities and regions, driven by innovation, the participation of citizens and stakeholders, the improvement of human skills, and smart cities as a modern model for urban development and governance. We offer integrated approaches and solutions for smart city development at the level of strategy, planning, digital applications development, and assessment. We create solutions for smart cities, mainly open source, which incorporate the most recent technological advances to solve real problems in the domains of growth, safety, and sustainability.

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Improve-my-City

This application for smart cities allows direct management and solving of local problems, in the urban environment, that are identified through citizens’ requests.

Governance

Co-design

With this application, the municipal authority can initiate public dialogue with citizens, co-shape with them the vision for the development of the city and then, co-design a relevant action plan.

Governance

Improving Public Safety

An application that allows citizens to report and map risks related to public security, such as thefts, incidents of violence and crimes.

Safety&security

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Digital Marketplace

A digital application that supports the promotion and networking of local businesses, boosting the local economy and facilitating cooperation between municipal authorities and stores.

Innovation economy

City Branding and Promotion

A digital application that promotes the identity of a city to different target groups of tourists using digital virtual tours while at the same time strengthens the local economy.

Innovation economy

Crowdfunding

A digital application that supports crowdfunding functions in order to raise money and other resources (food, clothes) for social and welfare purposes. Through this application, social networks that promote synergies are developed.

Innovation economy

Valorisation of Research Results

This is a platform for the registration, processing, and exploitation of research results and intellectual property products.

Innovation economy

Improving Environmental Footprint

An application that records and promotes energy saving in public and private buildings, contributes to the creation of a ‘green’ Municipality and strengthens the environmental awareness of citizens.

Environment

Wireless Environmental Monitoring Network

An application that visualizes environmental data such as humidity and air pollution in the territory of the Municipality.

Environment

Solutions for innovation policy and strategy

Digitally supported systems of innovation is a current trend for improving the innovation performance of cities and regions. The Online S3 Platform provides 28 software applications and 4 roadmaps, all open source, and shows different ways in which software, datasets, and web spaces can support the design of innovation policy and the governance of Smart Specialisation Strategies.

29 applications for the desing of RIS3

The Mini S3 Roadmap

Roadmap for EDP implementation

Specialisation Roadmap

Vertical Roadmap

ICOS Intelligent cities software repository

The open Intelligent City Software and Solutions Repository (ICOS) is an initiative to gather and disseminate smart city applications in municipalities, computer scientists, generic users and their communities.

More than 140 applications have been registered into ICOS, which can support solutions for (1) the innovation economy, (2) quality of life in cities, (3) optimisation of urban networks and infrastructure, and (4) city management and governance.

By entering the ICOS website you can be informed about available applications, may of which are open sources, and can be installed and customized for any city.