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If you follow Cities-4-People, you may know that we have entered the prototyping phase, during which the pilot areas work on a prototype for each of the three selected concepts, for a total of fifteen prototypes. The prototypes will bridge the concepts to the actual piloting phase, when things will get (even more) real andRead more

OpenGovIntelligence, a Horizon2020 project focused on co-creating applications of Linked Open Statistical Data, held its final project conference on November, 22nd in Delft. The event had a diverse set of presentations throughout the day from the OpenGovIntelligence project, students of TUDelft, and guests from other projects involving co-creation and governmental openness. The first half ofRead more

The calendar for 2019 is already filling up, so here’s a selection of mobility-related events you should look out for: URBAN FUTURE global conference from 22 May in Oslo – an exchange on sustainability and urban planning Changing Cities conference from 24 June in Chania, Creete,– a (smart) discussion on smart cities, smart environment, smartRead more

One year and a half went by and it is time to check where we stand. Six months ago, when you received our second newsletter, we were at a very different stage: we had defined our mobility challenges, we had the basis of our Citizen Mobility Communities and we had just launched our Citizen MobilityRead more

During the ICT 2018 Conference: Imagine Digital – Connect Europe, which was organised in Vienna between 4 and 6 December 2018, we came across some projects that are relevant to sustainable mobility and citizen participation. Just before the Christmas break, we want to share their names with you. You might use the holiday time to findRead more

In the past six months we attended several academic and non-academic conferences to discuss the methodological approach we have adopted in Cities-4-People, talk about co-creation and exchange on participatory processes, collective intelligence and (digital) social innovation. We travelled to a large number of countries ranging from Italy to Delft, from The Netherlands to Germany, andRead more

On November 27, the Open Source Lab held an inaugural roundtable discussion at its newly opened office space in Berlin’s EUREF campus. The discussion, which was focused on the question “what is the future of shared open source mobility?” hosted experts from backgrounds in civic tech, the automobile industry, academia, unions, sustainable transportation, entrepreneurship, andRead more

Several things have happened in parallel in the past months. You may have read about our events and the concepts that were selected for piloting as a result. You may have read about our scientific engagement and contribution to various conferences and panels on mobility and participatory processes. Do you know we have also workedRead more

Almost seven months ago, we were celebrating the launch of our Citizen Mobility Labs: it was a big milestone, but we still did not know what would have come out of them. Over the summer, the Labs started working at full speed with own events, such as the Presentation Days (one per location: Budapest, Hamburg,Read more

If you have followed our blogposts or taken part in the activities of one of our Citizen Mobility Labs, you know what is behind us (if you do not, you can still catch up by reading our third newsletter). The question is: what lies ahead? For sure, it won’t be a calm period for theRead more