SMART CITY FINEST TWINS EXCHANGE FORUM
(January 21.-22. January, 2021)
Time: 21. January
2021
Location: Zoom
Language: English
Registration HERE
The First Smart City Exchange Forum is the culmination of one year of work and progress by the members of the FinEst Twins research streams. As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we were forced to revisit the Smart City Conference originally planned for the 5th of November of 2020 in Tallinn and transform it into the current First Smart City Exchange Forum to be held online on the 21st of January 2021.
The Forum is an online one-day event for the researchers and cities and other stakeholders involved or interested in FinEst Twins Smart City centre activities, as well as the ones interested in applying and testing smart city approach through agile piloting in urban context.
During the Forum selected city representatives from Estonia and Finland and FinEst Twins research stream leaders will communicate their ideas and plans in the smart city field, share their research and experiences as well as visions for collaboration with other relevant stakeholders.
The aim of the Forum is to communicate the research content of FinEst Twins and to enhance cooperation and networking between researchers from Estonia and Finland, between cities, policy makers, citizens, NGO-s, SMES and other relevant stakeholders for developing sustainable, resilient and smarter urban environment.
SMART CITY RECEPTION
Time: 22. January 2021 from 10:00-11:00
Location: Zoom
Language: English
The City reception is an informal chat between cities, researchers and other relevant stakeholders to discuss three city challenges proposed by the Forum presenters from Tartu, Võru and Lääne-Harju.
The discussions will be about the following topics:
- How to make good use of energy data and how can the cities contribute to the establishment of energy communities? Topic from the city of Tartu
- How to support Circular Economy by certain ecosystems in small towns? Topic from the city of Võru
- Would MaaS concept work in sparse population density areas? Topic from Lääne-Harju county
Schedule of the city reception:
10:00-10:15 Topic opening
10:15-10:45 Group chat
10:45-10:50 Break
10:50-11:00 Final comments
This initiative is supported by the European Commission (H2020 grant 856602)
and the Estonian government (Ministry of Education and Research) and European Regional Fund (grant 2014-2020.4.01.20-0289)
If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact:
Lill Sarv
Lill.sarv@taltech.ee
+372 5627 3322
Matti Hämäläinen
matti.hamalainen@forumvirium.fi
+358 40 626 7995
Kalle Toiskallio
kalle.toiskallio@aalto.fi
+358 50 406
64 69
FINEST TWINS RESEARCH AND INNOVATION SEMINAR
(November 2020 - March 2021)
More information and registration HERE
December 16th, 2020 Smart sustainable city heating systems webinar recording is available HERE!
January 12th, 2021 Smart Mobility webinar recording is available HERE!
FINEST TWINS DIGITAL TWIN MASTERCLASS 2020 (November 2020)
Visual 3D models are being deployed in smart cities around the world. While earlier the motivation was mostly on visualizing the buildings, the latest developments will turn the 3D models into a rich source of information related to the urban landscape and built environment. One of the goals of the FinEst Twins project is to develop the Digital Twins of Helsinki and Tallinn as joint effort. The work also supports the urban research done in Aalto University and TalTech. The webinar series is a masterclass of smart city digital twins, presented by top experts in the field and supported with state of the art showcases from around the world.
More information and registration HERE
SMART CITY INSPIRATION WEBINAR (October 19th, 2020)
11:00-11:15 FinEst Twins Smart City Challenge by Mrs Külle Tärnov, Head of Innovation
11:15-11:45 Vienna Smart City by Mag. Nikolaus Summer, Urban Innovation Vienna, Smart City Agency, Senior Expert
11:45-12:15 Jelgava Smart City by Gints Reinsons, Head of Operational Information Centre of Jelgava city
12:15-12:20 Closing words by Külle Tärnov
The webinar took place on Oct 19 and you are warmly welcome to listen the webinar recording.
Smart City Wien defines Smart City as a city that assigns priority to, and interlinks, the issues of energy, mobility, buildings and infrastructure. In developing these fields, an emphasis is given to radical resource preservation, development and productive use of innovations/new technologies and high and socially balanced quality of living. Smart City should be therefore able to safeguard the city’s ability to withstand future challenges in a comprehensive fashion. The elementary trait of Smart City Wien lies in the holistic approach pursued, which comprises novel mechanisms of action and co-ordination in politics and administration as well as a wider leeway of action assigned to citizens.
Gints Reinsons in 2010 co-founded first and only Operative Information Centre operated by City Municipality in the whole Baltic and Scandinavian region. What others call a job, he calls amazing journey, which with combination of agile and hardworking team, proactive Jelgava City management encouragement has paid off with great recognition and results. Now Jelgava is recognized as Smart City worldwide (especially in Europe).
Jelgava Municipal Operational Information Centre (JPOIC) uses comprehensive communication, information exchange and analysis mechanisms that provide direct communication between residents of Jelgava city, infrastructure maintenance, operational services, state and local government institutions, commercial companies and the Civil Protection Commission.