services

Areas of Expertise

Smart City Strategies for Growth, Sustainability, Safety

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 intervention logic; action plan and flagship projects; implementation with clear milestones, budgets, and governance.

Carbon-Neutral Smart Cities

Design and implementation of climate-neutral city contracts, net-zero city districts, positive energy districts, and self-sufficient urban areas. Integration of building technologies, smart systems, locally produced renewable energy, and nature-based solutions to achieve carbon neutrality, supported by environmental monitoring systems to track progress toward climate neutrality.

Smart Green Ecosystems: Transition Models

Digital and green technologies to drive the transformation of area-, activity-, and network-based urban ecosystems. New organisational models for urban ecosystems—encompassing production clusters, service hubs, supply chains, city districts, utility networks, and innovation spaces—to accelerate smart and green transitions towards higher efficiency and sustainability.

Digital Platforms Design and Development

Designing and deploying cutting-edge digital platforms for the engagement of complementors and users across diverse domains of services. Actor-centric solutions that propel growth, liveability, pollution reduction, and sustainability. Decision-making and governance through user and stakeholder engagement, data-driven decisions, and AI-powered governance.

Agent-Based Modelling of Urban Ecosystems

Design and development of agent-based models (ABMs) to simulate operations and transitions of smart city ecosystems. Netlogo ABMs for carbon neutrality, shared mobility, and innovation ecosystems. Experimentation in hybrid sandboxes, assessment of what-if scenarios, benchmarking outcomes, and identification of optimal and innovative solutions.

Urban and Regional Monitoring, Analytics, Visualisation

Advanced tools for assessing urban/regional performance via selected indicators, analytics, and dashboards. Includes monitoring frameworks, balanced scorecards, and international benchmarks to support performance modelling, data-informed governance, and track progress in sustainability and development.

Innovation Systems Analysis and Assessment

Data-driven mapping and analysis of regional and sectoral innovation systems. Includes analysis of systemic components and conditions (R&D, funding, production capacity, market making), performance benchmarking, intelligence capabilities, and evaluation to enhance innovation capacity and align with global innovation and sustainability goals.

Innovation Strategy Design

Strategies for territories propelling technology and innovation, innovating cities and regions, innovation strategies, smart specialisation strategies (RIS3/RIS4), DIP (digital-institutional-physical) environments for innovation, platforms for innovation, Gen-AI and data-driven innovation, measuring policy effectiveness and long-term innovation impact.

Collaborative and Platform-Based Innovation

Design of sector-wide and ecosystem-level innovations. Identification of shared challenges, opportunities for joint innovation, promotion of collaborative R&D, and development of platform-based models that enable large-scale collaborative transformation across industries and services for the benefit of a large number of organisations.

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.

Get full brochure

improve

Improve-my-City

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

local_policy

Co-design

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

safety

Improving Public Safety

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

* beta version *

digital_market

Digital Marketplace

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

City Branding and Promotion

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

Crowdfunding

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

Valorisation of Research Results

Valorisation of Research Results

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

Innovation economy

environment

Improving Environmental Footprint

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

Project 4

Wireless Environmental Monitoring Network

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.

onlines3

29 applications for the desing of RIS3

road 1

The Mini S3 Roadmap

road 2

Roadmap for EDP implementation

road 3

Specialisation Roadmap

road 4

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.