On February 23rd the concluding webinar of the Baltic smart city project took place. This webinar focused on the lessons learned from this dialogue project as well as core aspects of climate friendly smart city development. In a concluding panel discussion, experts debated ways forward for smart cities in the post Covid19-world.
The project team is happy to annouce the publication of the third policy guideline. This guideline intends to provide a brief introduction to rebound effects and burden shifting in the context of smart solutions as well as municipal strategies to mitigate these. Furthermore, it highlights Baltic and German experience in monitoring and evaluation as one core strategy to address risks.
The smart city concept is a vision for future urban development. Guided by this concept, municipalities in the Baltics and Germany have increasingly invested in developing and piloting smart solutions in different urban sectors. Drawing on this experience, a 1.5 year dialogue project was carried out between municipalities in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Germany, in which the challenges and best practices for climate friendly smart cities were jointly discussed.
We just published a new documentation of our webinar series on "Smart Cities for Climate Mitigation: Monitoring & Evaluation". The documentation summarizes presentations and discussions during the three webinars hosted by adelphi and the city of Riga in November.
You find the documentation in our publications section. Additionally, you find the links to videos of the webinar series.
The project team is happy to annouce the publication that the first two policy guidelines that were elaborated in the past month. The guidelines touch upon the insights gained throughout our first two webinar series hosted by Tartu Regional Energy Agency and the University Kaunas. The first guideline discusses different options of public-private collaboration models in smart city projects. Examples from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are described and recommendations for municipalities given. The second guideline expands on the topic of open data in the smart city development.
You can improve only the things you can measure. With this in mind the city of Riga invites you to actively participate in a dialogue to explore and establish what constitutes smart city principles in relation to climate mitigation and what data defines and serves measuring this.
We just published a new documentation of our third webinar series on "Smart urban solutions for climate mitigation". The documentation summarizes presentations and discussions during the three webinars hosted by adelphi and the city of Kiel in September.
You find the documentation in our publications section. Additionally, you find the links to videos of the webinar series.
We just published a new documentation of our second webinar series "Open Data for Smart Cities and Climate Mitigation". The documentation summarizes presentations and discussions during the three webinars hosted by Kaunas University of Technology in June.
You find the documentation in our publications section. Additionally, you find the links to videos of the webinar series.
For all those who couldn't participate in our first webinar series "Virtual Dialogue on Smart Cities for Climate Mitigation" we just published a documentation. It summarizes presentations and discussions during the three webinars hosted by Tartu Regional Energy Agency in May.
You find the documentation in our publications section.
08 September 2020, 2 pm – 4 pm, CEST / 3 pm – 5 pm, EEST
Zoom videoconference
This session introduces the smart city concept as a potential means to further climate mitigation, outlines ways to minimize risks and avoid problems such as rebound-effects and burden shifting. It discusses the integration of such solutions in an overarching urban sustainability transformation.
