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News | Published: 07 May 2025

Global Award for Sustainable Development in Cities (Shanghai Award)

Is your city leading the way in sustainability, smart solutions, or climate resilience? Now’s your chance to be recognized globally! 🏙️✨ The Global Award for Sustainable Development in Cities (Shangh...

News | Published: 06 May 2025

x-CITE Project Launched to Bring Citizens into the Heart of Urban Transformation

How can cities make citizens not just observers, but active participants in shaping the urban future? Enter x-CITE (Expanding the Experience of Citizens through Extended Reality), a new European ...

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CitiVerse People-centred digital services

Blog | Published: 29 Apr 2025

Publisher:Lucia Garrido

A journey through digital maturity: how cities are measuring and advancing their digital transformation

Across Europe, cities are pioneering efforts to build smarter, inclusive, and environmentally responsible urban landscapes. To support local and regional authorities in building advanced digital capab...

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LORDIMAS Digitalisation roadmaps and strategies Policies and regulation

News | Published: 19 Mar 2025

The first LORDIMAS Report is out

The first LORDIMAS report has been published recently. Developed by ESPON, this report leverages LORDIMAS data to provide an initial assessment of the digital maturity of subnation...

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LORDIMAS Digitalisation roadmaps and strategies

News | Published: 18 Mar 2025

Smart Communities Network Meeting – 20 February 2025

Introduction On 20 February 2025, the Smart Communities Network held an online meeting, bringing together 43 participants from across the European Union. This network, composed of associations and org...

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European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) CitiVerse

Published: 13 Mar 2025

Publisher:Technical Working Group

European Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs Plus) - (Intermediate) Version 7.5

Many public sector organizations struggle with high costs and inefficiencies when trying to integrate different digital systems. Complex procurement rules, a lack of standardization, and resistance to...

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Interoperability & Standards

News | Published: 03 Mar 2025

LORDIMAS – a tool to assess digital maturity and bring more relevance to EU and national policymaking

LORDIMAS - Local and Regional Digital Maturity Assessment- is a tool developed by ESPON in cooperation with the European Committee of the Regions, European Commission, Living-in.EU supporters and sign...

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LORDIMAS

News | Published: 21 Feb 2025

Towards an EU Roadmap for an inclusive and sustainable CitiVerse

CitiVerse integrates the physical and digital cityscape, enabling real-time interactions for urban planners and citizens to make informed decisions that enhance city services. The report EU pre-stand...

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CitiVerse Digitalisation roadmaps and strategies Interoperability & Standards

News | Published: 19 Feb 2025

Citiverse: Designing digital public infrastructure for future cities

The 1st UN Citiverse Challenge invites students and startups to reimagine and design innovative solutions that leverage the transformative potential of the citiverse and digital public infrastructure ...

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CitiVerse Artificial Intelligence

News | Published: 12 Feb 2025

Introducing the New Visionaries Leading the Living-in.EU Digital Assembly!

The Living-in.EU movement is pleased to announce the appointment of two new co-chairs to lead its Digital Assembly: Ivan Goychev, Deputy Mayor for Digitalization, Innovation, and Economic Development...