Smart Cities Project Guide.pdf - Interreg IVB North Sea Region ...

Work package 6
Mainstreaming
(leader Leiedal)
The goal of the mainstreaming work package in Smart Cities is to get central
governments involved in the project in such a way that they really understand
the potential of pilots and methodologies. This involvement will facilitate the
transfer of the learning and practice from these bottom-up pilots to national
strategies, with the potential that the solutions developed by the Smart Cities
partners are rolled-out across countries. Twice a year the project will host an
International Mainstreaming Group meeting, where these national decision
makers will be able to review the project’s progress and will provide feedback
that will shape the project’s development. All seven central governments
from partner countries have made a commitment be involved in
the project in this way.
National governments play a key role in transferring technology and solutions
to other regions and municipalities. A number of national and central
governments have already become partners of the Smart Cities project,
and we are approaching more. The knowledge and commitment from these
partners will lead to a sustainable transfer of the services developed in the
project to other areas in the North Sea Region. Smart Cities also works
closely with the European ePractice.eu community.
Smart Cities has already delivered one international conference (‘Creating
Smarter Cities’) and three international e-gov academies to bring together
practitioners, mainstreamers, academics and local municipalities, and the
project continues to develop links with other relevant projects. Communities
on epractice.eu and LinkedIn are key dissemination routes for the project’s
activities and findings.
A final conference is planned for 2011.
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