From 5G-connected drones to digital twins and responsible artificial intelligence, the city of Riga is testing how new technologies can solve practical challenges facing the city and its residents.
From managing beach crowds to sharing locally generated energy, The Hague is using the streets and public spaces of Scheveningen, a popular seaside district of the city, to test how digital technology can respond to real urban challenges.
Every day, the city of Seinajoki, in western Finland, serves thousands of meals in schools and daycare centres. Knowing exactly how much food to prepare, however, is not always straightforward. Actual participation can differ from forecasts, while manually counting diners creates extra work for kitchen staff and does not always provide the detailed information needed to understand where food is being wasted.
What began as an idea about giving residents a digital representation of their own homes is becoming part of a much wider vision for Rotterdam. Over the past decade, the city has experimented with Local Digital Twins, open urban platform and immersive technologies to understand how digital tools can improve public services and help residents engage with their city.
This online event aims to bring different perspectives from the Digital Europe ecosystem together to explore how they can support the deployment of innovative solutions in cities: Test and Experimentation Facilities (TEF) like CitCom.ai, European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs), AI Factories, and other European projects and initiatives provide complementary capabilities ranging from testing and experimentation to local innovation support, access to AI infrastructure and expertise, and the development of deployable and secure solutions.
LDT Citiverse EDIC stands for “European Digital Infrastructure Consortium on Local Digital Twins towards the Citiverse”. It is a new type of legal entity created by the European Commission to develop and operate common digital infrastructure for local (city) digital twins. It promotes interoperability between cities, reducing digital fragmentation, and supporting the development of open services and standards in the EU. It is an independent legal entity and currently brings together 15 Member States.
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is organising a stakeholder consultation on its upcoming opinion on the Commission’s EU Chips Act 2.0 proposal.
The consultation will take place on Friday 11 September 2026, 10:30-12:00 CEST, in hybrid mode: Online and at the CoR premises in Brussels, JDE 53, 99-101 rue Belliard. You can register here for the consultation by Monday 7 September.
The EU Open Source Observatory (OSOR) is hosting a webinar on “Public Administrations and the EU Open Source Strategy,” taking place online on 24 September 2026, from 10:00 to 12:00 CEST.
On 14 September, the European Commission will host a webinar to officially present three new pilot projects funded under the Digital Europe Programme call on “GenAI for the public administrations”.
As heat, drought and extreme rainfall put growing pressure on Europe’s cities, the city of Guimaraes is using digital tools to decide where climate action is needed most, and to measure what works.
The Portuguese city, European Green Capital 2026, has placed nature-based solutions at the heart of its climate strategy. But it is going further than expanding parks, green corridors and retention basins.
