- Skills and employment
- Digital services to companies
- Citizen engagement
- Open data
- Re-skilling
- Social housing
- Social entrepreneurship
- Local Green Deals
- Green logistics and supply chains
- Renewable energy
- Clean industry
- Green manufacturing
About Intelligent Cities Challenge
The Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) is a European Commission initiative bringing together 130 cities to achieve intelligent, socially responsible and sustainable growth through advanced technologies. The 2.5-year programme builds on the success of the Digital Cities Challenge, which helped 41 EU cities develop a strategic vision and roadmap for their digital transformations. Participating ICC cities are eager to become the engines for the recovery of the economy, create new business opportunities and enhance their cities, industries and SMEs’ sustainability and resilience through the uptake of advanced technologies, re-skilling and upskilling of the workforce.
The ICC is part of a wider EU support system to deliver on the promises of the European Green Deal - building an economy that works for all people and a Europe that is fit for the digital age.
Intelligent
The Challenge supports the participant cities to transition to an intelligent and digital mode of governance of the local ecosystem. Stimulating citizen participation and digitization of public administration will reduce red tape and simplify interaction with businesses and SMEs. Intelligent solutions can also help improve citizen engagement.
Green
The Challenge supports the sustainable development of participating cities to meet the challenges of building a modern, resource-efficient and competitive local economy where economic growth is decoupled from resource use. The ICC will support participating cities in implementing strategies for Local Green Deals:
- greening of industry
- renewable energy
- intelligent and green logistics
- sustainable construction
- green tourism
- sustainability and resilience of the food system
- efficient water management solutions
The Challenge will foster the development of urban management strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve resource efficiency, benefitting both citizens and urban business ecosystems.
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As an ICC city, you are invited to showcase your city and the solutions which have been deployed by your city on the forthcoming ICC Marketplace. The first step, is to submit your profile now using the form provided.