The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is organising a stakeholder consultation in preparation of the CoR opinion on "Digital simplification and Data Union Strategy", covering the following initiatives of the European Commission published last November:
As cities across Europe continue to digitalise public services, mobility systems, governance mechanisms, and citizen engagement, understanding and accessing EU funding opportunities becomes increasingly essential. Programmes such as Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe Programme, NetZeroCities, and the New European Bauhaus support cities to accelerate digital and green transformation through funding, capacity building, and cross-border collaboration.
UN-Habitat has released A Step-by-Step Guide for a People-Centred Smart City Strategy Playbook that guides policy-makers in developing people-centred smart city strategies and normative pieces in line with the People-Centred Smart City Approach of UN-Habitat.
For national, regional and local governments, city leaders and urban planners.
This report by UN-Habitat Urban provides practical steps, tools and examples to support the application of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) in urban management and urban sectors.
The Local Digital Twins for Smart and Sustainable Communities (LDT4SSC) initiative has officially launched its second round of Open Calls: Potential stakeholders can now inform themselves about the calls and receive support at a dedicated info session.
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This article was written by Stephen Gilbert, Rebecca Mathias, Anett Schönfelder, Magdalena Wekenborg,
This article is by Haolan Zhang & Ruichuan Zhang Ph.D.
The Living-in.EU community invites you to kick off the new year together and look at us what is ahead of us in 2026!
You will hear presentations from the following initiatives:
The European Commission is hosting an online info session to help stakeholders build consortia for the call for proposals on a coordination and support action (CSA) to build an ecosystem of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in public administrations. Following the first info session in December 2025, this second session will focus on sharing information about the call, answering questions and facilitating consortia-building.
