GREENGAGE OBSERVATORIES
Actively contribute to the future of your city by becoming an integral part of a community dedicated to sustainable urban development and the European Green Deal.
GREENGAGE has pilot engagements in 5 selected European cities and regions. Each of these pilots employ use cases which target different EU Green Deal objectives. The selected use cases aim to highlight the areas where smart city governance is mostly needed.
BRISTOL
United Kingdom
COPENHAGEN
Denmark
NORTH BRABANT
The Netherlands
TURANO
Italy
GERACE
Italy
SCOPE
GREENGAGE develops GREENGAGE Observatories to promote the active engagement of citizens in the collection and use of localised knowledge and intelligence used in urban development and decision-making. Citizens are invited to observe and co-create their cities by sensing their neighbourhoods in terms of air quality, mobility and well-being. Their participation will be enhanced and supported by innovative technologies through wearables or proprietary devices and apps).
With the help of technology, citizens’ participation will help generate new crowdsourced data to:
complement, validate, and enrich information held by the public administrations and/or environment agencies derived from remote sensing data and obtained via other authoritative observations
improve urban governance by providing evidence for policy evaluation, policy making and decision making
increase societal awareness by showcasing the environmental challenges (climate change, poor air quality, healthy living)
OBSERVER STRUCTURE
In each pilot, teams of about 60 Observers will be formed to ensure a sufficient, inclusive, and representative group size. Each team will be split up into smaller groups and tasks and responsibilities will be assigned according to the participants’ competences and interests.
Each team will have a designated Observer Ambassador as main point of contact and will be supported by the Observer Ambassador exchange program, where Ambassadors, Observers, project scientists and city authorities will be able to visit each area, exchange experiences on how to observe and measure selected urban issues, and share their insights using respective methods and tools. The aim is to find better solutions collaboratively, learning from unfamiliar settings and cultures.
ONBOARDING & TRAINING
To support the setting up of GREENGAGE Observatories, the project builds capacity of its observers by providing necessary training to gain knowledge of the scientific process of data gathering, validating, sharing and understanding their semantics.