Smart City Festival 2020
Climate Change & Smart Cities : Smart City Education Initiative (SCEI)
Smart solutions help citizens to manage their lives easier, more productive and more sustainable.
During a pandemic, such solutions are of vital importance, e.g. digital learning, home office, or e-commerce.
Our project region has dedicated itself intensively to the topics of innovation support, climate change and smart cities since 2013.
In 2014 we founded the Smart City Education Initiative (SCEI) together with a large number of partners. The cross-border association is made up of stakeholders from politics, business and civil society.
For example, SCEI offers municipalities, change-makers and other stakeholders important educational events, networking opportunities and matchmaking.
The annual Smart City Festival is one of our highlights. The international SCF has been held annually since 2017 and is one of the highlights of the smart city community in the region every year.
News
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Smart Cities in Kosovo: Empirical Study on Citizens’ Preferences and Perspectives
In a follow-up study initiative aimed at bridging this chasm, the Western Balkans office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and UBO Consulting undertook a comprehensive study focusing on the citizens of Kosovo’s seven regions. Engaging with 1568 participants, including those of Albanian and Serb ethnicities and other ethnic minorities, the study sought to gauge the citizens’ familiarity, utilization, apprehensions, and future inclinations towards smart city services.
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Smart Local Communites in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Follow up
The follow up study, the results of which we present below are the product of the research conducted in the period January - April 2023 and its main goal was to check how much, if at all, the development and application of solutions in the field of Smart City was influenced by the state of the pandemic and the crisis it brought with it, and whether two years after the first conducted research, interest in this topic increased.
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Smart City Festival 2021 - SMART RESTART
Although the pandemic keeps the world in turmoil, the Smart City Festival (SCF) traditionally happens in October, celebrating knowledge, freedom, and progress. Unfortunately, the opportunity of living normally is still a distant reality for people across the world, but this still couldn’t stop the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Western Balkans and its partners once again bringing international experts from business, science, and politics as well as regional stakeholde
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SMART RESTART
The motto of this year's Smart City Festival in Belgrade, which will take place from 19-20 October 2021 as a one-and-a-half-day online event, will be “Smart Re:Start – Mentality. Mobility. Market. Media. Medical.” Join in on numerous panels.
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Smart Cities of Serbia
The publication Smart Cities of Serbia – Innovation and Resilience of Local Communities in Serbia in 2021 deals with the Smart City concept that transcends mere technological innovations in urban areas and addresses many challenges of the cities of the future.