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This year, on November 7-9, 2023, the RESPONSE project participated at the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEW2023) in Barcelona and online.

On behalf of RESPONSE, project partners Lea Kleinenkuhnen (Brussels City) and Ritva Salminiitty (Turku University of Applied Sciences- TUA) joined the event offline.

RESPONSE project was presented at the event alongside 30 other EU-funded projects dedicated to ๐’๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‚๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฎ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ at a joint booth, organized by the Smart Cities Marketplace.

๐’๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ is the worldโ€™s biggest and most influential event for cities and urban innovation. Every year, leaders from the most innovative companies, governments, and organizations are gathered to ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐œ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐š ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž.

The major goal of the event is to collectivize urban innovation across the globe and empower cities to face the critical challenges the world faces today.

Discover the full program of the event at the SCEW website.

Lea Kleinenkuhnen joined the AGORA session: EDIC on networked LDTs: Technical synergies. The RESPONSE project was presented among others during the event. It was aimed to understand the contributions and expectations of the projects represented of the planned European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) on Local Digital Twins (LDTs).

Ritva Salminiitty was presenting the RESPONSE project at the expo highlighting the projectยดs citizen engagement approach. The presentations were followed by discussions in relation to citizen engagement methods.

Here are some of the highlights from the event.