Partners
Country Norway
Type of organization SME
AugmentCity AS is a world leading simulation/visualising company, a spin-off from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and most of its work is R&D oriented. AugmentCity decreases the gap between man and machine by humanizing and contextualizing complex data. AugmentCity offers smart and sustainable solutions throughout the urban development process involving inhabitants, politicians, private- and public decision-makers. The cloud-based platform enables cities to benchmark on sustainability key performance indicators and their stakeholders to collaborate on urban or territorial development through visualization by importing digital elevation and BIM models and integrating different data APIs for rich and immersive modelling of future scenarios: One platform – multiple datasets – cross-disciplinary collaboration for a smarter and more sustainable future. Recent reality augmenting projects include the visualization of decarbonization infrastructure projects, the instant simulation of mobility, improving energy efficiency in office buildings, live-editing terrain and buildings, simulating sea-level rise in coastal cities.
Contact:
Paul Halas, Ph.D. Project engineer / GIS data specialist paul.halas@augmentcity.no
Country Poland
Type of organization Municipality
The Kołobrzeg Commune is a Local Government Unit established in 1990 and situated on the Trzebiatów Coast and on the Gryficka and Białogardzka plains by the Baltic Sea. The local government is an organization of the local commune and, at the same time, a form of public administration, in which residents form a community by virtue of law and relatively independently decide on the implementation of administrative tasks resulting from the needs of this community in a given territory and permitted by local government by statutes, under the statutory supervision of the administration. The Kołobrzeg Commune covers an area of 144 square kilometers, where 22 towns are inhabited by 10 361 people.
Country Poland
Type of organization Research Organization
IRMIR is a public research institution dedicated to urban studies and policy advisory in Poland (operating in various forms since the 1950s). It consists of a team of urban researchers, economists, geographers, sociologists, urban planners, and data scientists. It covers various topics such as spatial planning, urban governance, transport and mobility, energy transition and sustainable growth, citizen participation, and urban revitalization. IRMiR has extensive experience in doing research, providing training, running urban labs, sharing knowledge, publishing policy papers and recommendations, doing evaluations, and consulting public policy.
Contact:
Anita Zarzycka azarzycka@irmir.pl
Country France
Type of organization Research Organization
BSE (Bordeaux School of Economics) is a Joint Research Unit (UMR) consisting of CNRS and the University of Bordeaux and was created in 2022 to specialize in the field of economics. BSE aims to combine economic, ecological, mathematical, and numerical modeling in order to address environmental and urban management issues across the following areas i) Environmental and economic criteria for intergenerational equity ii) Uncertainty in the management of complex environmental systems, iii) Agents heterogeneity and public policies governance, and iv) Environmental inequalities and ecological sustainability.
Country France
Type of organization Regional Research Network
Futurs Act is an association which aims to bring out research and research-action projects responding to objectives such as assess potential impacts of possible futures, co-create climate change adaptation scenarios, explore and experiment with pathways to prepare desirable futures, promote the inclusion of local stakeholders and interfacing between science and civil society, facilitate changes of scale (from global forecasts to territorial foresight), and prioritise knowledge for action that can be grasped by citizens, socio-economic stakeholders and public decision-makers. Futurs Act counts with 62 higher education and research laboratories, 15 research organizations, and has, to date, 13 labelled projects approved for funding. Futurs Act is located in France in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Another important value of Futurs Act is its strategic foresight which confers the ability to explore, anticipate and shape the future
Country Norway
Type of organization County Authority
Møre and Romsdal County Council is a regional authority on the west coast of Norway. The County Council is responsible for education, planning, environmental issues, public health, culture, transport, nature management, and regional development. Its main goal is to develop an innovative, robust, and sustainable work-, living- and service region. To ensure this, the County Council has more than 2500 employees working in collaboration with municipalities, organizations, and businesses in the region.
Country Poland
Type of organization SME
INnCREASE Sp. z.o.o is a private company that positions itself as a high-quality provider of innovation services, training, business consultancy and partner for implementation of international innovation projects. Among its many areas of intervention, it also has experience in entrepreneurship, supporting new business ideas by providing adequate backup. Besides this, another strong suit of INnCREASE’s activity is the promotion of innovative educational approaches, and also of science and education. Counting with privileged links with various organizations, it is able to offer unique opportunities for different types of stakeholders.
Country France
Type of organization Non-Profit Organization
ACCENT SUD (Association pour la Coopération culturelle et l’économie) is an association aimed at developing regional support, partnership opportunities and building a systematic and consistent dialogue between different stakeholders in the culture and digital economy transition, with a geographical focus on Southern Europe. ACCENT SUD is based in the southwest of France, close to the city of Bordeaux in the region of Aquitaine. ACCENT SUD positions itself as a centre of attraction in the field of digital economy transition. The ecosystem of the association, formed by the participating companies, research centers, public entities, associations and local initiatives provides a full range of enabling services and transnational projects.
Contact:
Silvia Cibien General Delegate silvia.cibien@accent-sud.eu
Country France
Type of organization Research Organization
The ETTIS (Research Unit “Environment, Territories in Transition, Infrastructures, Societies” (ETTIS), part of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment-INRAE) research unit aims to combine theories and concepts from economics, sociology, geography, agronomy, political science, statistics, mathematics, and engineering sciences in a variety of ways developing integrated approaches to investigate socio-ecological transition over time, and territorial adaptation addressing global change and related inequalities.