Smart Cities and Smart Islands in the Mediterranean : The SMARTMED approch

Smart Cities and Entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean

The SMARTMED Concept

Yannis CharalabidisAssociate Professor, Electronic GovernanceDirector, Innovation and Entrepreneurship UnitUniversity of the Aegean, Greece

My definition for Smart Cities

A smart city combines Digital technologies New processes and business models Better utilization of resources Citizen and industry involvementto create better services for citizens and visitors, enhancing their experience and overall wellbeing in a sustainable way

MED Islands: Specific Territorial Conditions

Islands present the characteristics of a small country: most of them have an airport, schools and university, hospital, monuments, tourism enterprises, NATURA areas and wild-life, sea-life and local agricultural products.

In times of tight budgets the change needs to be achieved in a smart way: our islands need to become 'smart islands'.

Special factors have been analysed, per island: Special economic conditions Special geographic characteristics Development planning Unique products and services

Hint: Mediterranean sea

has more than 100 inhabited islands

Smart Island Priority Areas

Transportation Tourism and Culture Agriculture Marine and Fisheries Management Water and Waste Management Energy Efficiency Open and Collaborative Governance New Business Models and

Entrepreneurship for local growth

The SMARTMED idea: Entrepreneurship instead of procurement

Phase 1: analyse the current status in each city / island, develop a set of indicators according with the ISO 37120 standard and implement a monitoring system

Phase 2: analyse priorities and develop scenarios for smart city interventions in key priority areas

Phase 3: call for new enterprise (start-ups) ideas, on the priority areas, providing specialized training towards citizens and SME’s

Phase 4: select the most promising entrepreneurship ideas and provide initial capital and networking for establishment and operation

Transfer

Pilots

Tools

Thematic Focus

•Joint Action Plan•SMARTMED Framework•Training Material

•Prioritization of developments in MED Islands•Coaching on the specialisation of Action Plans – Setting Targets

•Network Building (Stakeholders collaboration & Brokerage Events)

•Cities Profiling and Indicators Management Subsystem

•Cities Self-Assessment Subsystem•Prioritization Subsystem•Declare your need Subsystem (including citizens)

•New Business Models and Entrepreneurship for regional growth

•Open and Collaborative Governance

•Knowledge sharing and Infrastructures

•Thematic Call for Proposals for innovative smart solutions in MED Islands•Coaching for EU and Public funding opportunities

•Solutions DataBase (State your solution)•Startup Accelerator•CfPs – Startups •Evaluation Subsystem•Seed Funding•Experts Committee / Evaluators•Coaching for getting funding

•Urban / Islands Mobility•Tourism and Agriculture•Marine and Port Management•Water and Waste Management

Results: 1 Joint Action Plan, 1 Methodological Framework, 9 Learning Objects for Businesses & PAs

Results: 4 Pilots for testing the SMARTMED developments

Results: 9 tools for clusters internationalization

Results: 3 Horizontal Thematic Clusters, 4 Vertical Thematic Clusters for MED Islands

SMARTMED Setup

PartnershipOrganisation Country TypeMunicipality of Samos GR Public BodyUniversity of the Aegean - Research Unit GR UniversityMunicipality of Larnaka CY Public BodyUniversity of Cyprus CY UniversityMunicipality of Novo Mesto SI Public BodySmartIS SI Private NfP

Instituto Superiore Mario Boela ITPrivate Research Institute

Municipality of Ischia IT Public BodyNational Association of Municipalities IT Private NfPCyprus Research and Innovation Center CY SMEInterested party from Croatia: Island of Brac

The SmartMED concept can be reapplied in Future CallsINTERREG IV:

Bilateral Cooperation Programmes (Greece/FYROM, Greece/Albania)Deadline: March 2016

HORIZON 2020: SMART AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES Topic identifier: SCC-1-2016-2017Deadline: April 2016 / Feb 2017

A practical example:The “SamosWiki” project Students and volunteering citizens develop content in Greek and English in

Wikipedia, for the 100 most important entries (monuments, buildings, caves, beaches, natural parks, important people).

The project includes information systems (for managing the recognition and editing process), electronic training material (how to edit Wikipedia) and collaborative work systems

After the development of content, a QR code is placed next to the places of interest, directing visitors to the Wikipedia Page

The approach can be enhanced with audio and video, also stored in Wikipedia

After that, the team will proceed in developing similar projects for other islands and also for the private sector (hotels, etc) slowly forming into an SME

And a few more examples from Samos: The “SamiakiGi” project: students and local farmers develop a common

branding and do digital marketing for all agricultural products of the island.

The “AegeanStartups” project: an international startup competition, based on the core products and services of the Aegean Sea, with the support of local industry clusters

The “SamosSocialFund” project, where all students get a smart/credit card which provides a discount from all local stores, but gathers the credited amount in a common fund that students and local businesses administer

Next Opportunity to Visit Samos:The Samos 2015 Summit, 4-5 July 2015 A gathering of experts for a 2-days high level meeting towards new

project ideas in HORIZON, InterReg, Marie Curie and other programmes

Combined with the OpenGov Summer School on collaborative governance

This years topic: “Smart Cities and Entrepreneurship”

Who we are

Yannis CharalabidisHead of Digital Governance Research CentreE: [email protected]: http://www.charalabidis.gr T: @yannisc