The motto of this year’s Metropolitan Solutions was “Create better cities”. The event took place from 31 May – 2 June 2016 in Berlin.
More than 26 interdisciplinary conferences and workshops were held, focusing on how smarter, greener and more sustainable cities of tomorrow can be shaped. Broad insights into current and emerging trends and technologies in innovative urban developments were provided.
The Smart City as the core topic of the conferences was approached from different perspectives such as energy and environment, urban planning, funding and financing, participation and integration as well as urban resilience. Respective bottlenecks, approaches and solutions were discussed among academia, public and private sectors, which lead to identifying gaps and priorities in their future research and development activities.
Furthermore, the extensive exhibition area and the Smart Business Days provided excellent networking opportunities. Participants were given the opportunity to find out about the latest innovative solutions and services for tomorrow’s cities, contact competent solution providers and find out about their current and future projects.
As an agency with long experience in innovative territorial approaches, aconium participated at the event to learn about the latest technical, political and planning developments in the area of smart, sustainable and innovative cities.
aconium has participated in many national and transnational projects, intensively working on integrating and promoting innovative smart solutions in cities and regions throughout Europe. One of our previous relevant projects is called Smart Cities.
Smart Cities focused on testing and implementing new processes, e-services and applications for medium-sized cities in the North Sea region of the European Union. The project consisted of 13 transnational partners in the fields of economy, science and local decision-makers. aconium was responsible for the project and financial management of two German partners as well as the development of new participation processes for users of innovative e-government services. Farther projects in this field are ITRACT, DANS – Digital Agenda for the North Sea Region or DANS ON.