Sector
Connectivity, sensor networks, municipal cloud and edge, interoperability layers and IoT estate management.
Pipeline
What European cities are preparing in this sector, with stage, investment and procurement window.
Lviv Ukraine
DEMOEmergency services, utilities and municipal departments coordinate through separate systems and manual handover.
Brno Czechia
DEMOPlanning decisions on transport, heat and construction are taken on separate datasets that cannot be compared.
Leipzig Germany
DEMONew connections for heat pumps and charging are being delayed by distribution constraints rather than by generation.
Novi Sad Serbia
DEMOResidents use several unconnected portals, each with its own account, for services delivered by the same authority.
Zagreb Croatia
DEMOA significant share of treated water does not reach a metered customer, and the network records are incomplete.
Funding
Calls whose scope covers this sector, with the ESCA assessment of what each instrument suits.
Large capital instrument tied to the TEN-T urban node obligations. Relevant to a limited set of cities, decisive for those.
Intelligence
Most municipal technology tenders exclude smaller suppliers through requirements that have nothing to do with the work.
Academy
What a municipal digital twin is for, what it costs to keep alive, and how to avoid buying a visualisation.
Who owns municipal data, who may use it, and how to keep a city from losing control of its own data model in a platform contract.
Expertise
Data governance adviser
Netherlands
Municipal data governance, data clauses in platform contracts and open data publication.
Working languages English, Dutch
Network
Listed by category. Membership is a relationship with ESCA and implies no endorsement of any organisation.
Estonia
Policy institute covering digital government in the Baltic states.
Scope of the partnership Contribution to policy briefs on digital government and data governance.
Czechia
Member city. Participates in the pipeline and in the urban data working group.
Netherlands
Urban data platforms and digital twin infrastructure. Industry member.
Finland
Water network monitoring and leak detection. Industry member.
Events
Open market consultation: Brno Urban Digital Twin
Open consultation ahead of specification drafting. All questions and answers are published. Attendance is recorded.
Digital Infrastructure
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