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The “Moving Urban Data Markets Conference“ was recently held in London, jointly organized by LSE  Enterprise, the business, consulting and innovation arm of the London School of Economics and Political Science, the UK Department for International Trade, the Innovation Centre for Mobility and Societal Change (Innoz), the British Embassy in Berlin and the Fraunhofer ...

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At the 28th and 29th of March 2018 the first Morgenstadt Network Meeting oft he year takes place in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. The Fraunhofer researchers put together a diverse schedule to provide maximum benefits for all attendees. The Meeting will start in the evening of March 27th with an informal networking dinner ...

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Two-day ideas workshop develops concepts and solutions for the digital future municipality. On the way to the digital future municipalities, cross-industry ideas and solutions are required. With the second edition of the Morgenstadt workshop, the Fraunhofer IAO and the Ministry of the Interior, Digitalisation and Migration Baden-Württemberg ...

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Morgenstadt goes East! Nowhere else in the world the population is growing as rapidly as in Asia. This puts enormous pressure on the cities there, which are struggling with such annual population growth that is hard to imagine in Europe or North America. As a result, from the beginning of the 21st century, a large number of the big cities there are about to become megacities ...

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Just recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn ended. More than 25,000 representatives of nations, NGOs, science, media and companies participated in the event. Previously, Oxfam, an international network of aid and development agencies, has published a report, in which stated that the effects of global warming ...

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The Morgenstadt Initiative in a strategic Cooperation with the GIZ Brazil are supporting the city of Joinville in the development of a Roadmap for sustainable urban Mobility. In the first phase of the analysis, the Morgenstadt methodology was adapted to the local context of Brazil: indicators and action fields were redefined. Additionally, strategic ...

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This year the Morgenstadt Initiative was represented at the world leading Smart City Urban Fair on 14-16. November 2017 in Barcelona at the joint stand of Berlin-Brandenburg as well as withTriangulum and Bable in panels. The international fair and congress for the sustainable improvement of the life quality in cities attracts more than 17,000 ...

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Morgenstadt at the world's largest fair for Geoinformation INTERGEO in Berlin. Fraunhofer researchers present works on the use of urban data, autonomous driving and renewable energies. Real Estate Service Provider GEWOBA joins the Morgenstadt network. The specialized public fair, which takes place annually since 1995, is primarily intended ...

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Parking Day in Stuttgart, interested parties presented alternative area utilization models on specially rented parking lots. Researchers of the Fraunhofer IAO explained the effects of automated driving on the development of urban space. Interested citizens had numerous opportunities for interaction ...

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The city of Ludwigsburg is in the second phase of the ‘Zukunftsstadt Wettbewerb’ (City of the Future Competition) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The aim of the initiative is to promote sustainable urban development. In this context, the city of Ludwigsburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) organize ...

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"Data is the new fuel," said the former EU Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner Meglena Kunewa from Bulgaria in 2009. But in many municipalities the value of urban data is still underestimated. Yet the possibilities of using urban data are almost unlimited. Intelligent traffic guidance systems, for example, can use traffic data to control the traffic volume ...

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The Morgenstadt Initiative is a partner of the SMART CITY SOLUTIONS (SCS) on the world's largest platform for geoinformation INTERGEO in Berlin from 26 to 28 September 2017. Morgenstadt partners gain free entry to the fair on the both days. More than 17,000 visitors from over 100 countries will come from 26 to 28 September to Berlin to the INTERGEO, the world's leading ...

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The European Smart Cities and Communities Project - Triangulum (SCC1) includes the three forerunner cities Eindhoven (NL), Manchester (UK) and Stavanger (NO) as well as the three follower cities Leipzig (DE), Sabadell (ES) and Prague (CZ). The projects consists of 22 partners, including companies and municipalities as well as research institutes such as the Institute of Human Factors and Technology ...

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In collaboration with the British embassy of Germany, Fraunhofer Morgenstadt Initiative, and LSE Enterprise, Fraunhofer IAO has successfully hosted last week’s “Finance in the Smart City” Conference on the Fraunhofer campus in Stuttgart. As one of the first events focusing on this specific topic, the conference brought together German and British Smart City experts, representatives of municipalities, financial ...

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Second network meeting of the year in Porto. Together with the European governance initiative SmartImpact and numerous partners, the Morgenstadt team of the Fraunhofer IAO gained insights into the Portuguese start-up scene, developed concepts for smart neighborhoods and worked on building an innovation park for the Argentine capital Buenos Aires ...

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Last month, the two German industry giants Daimler and Bosch announced that they would develop completely autonomous vehicles for urban transport by 2020 in a joint research project. Originally this was supposed to be implemented by 2030, but the technical progress and the economic prospects made it possible to bring autonomous vehicles into production faster than expected. Many people are not ...

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More than 50 decision makers from nearly 30 smart cities participated in the Smart city solutions workshop to draw out concrete ideas for improving infrastructure and services in India.Fraunhofer in association with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany,Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, and National Institute of Urban Affairs and organised a Indo-German Smart ...

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The city of tomorrow should be livable, safe and resistant, this is the goal of the competence team Urban Data & Resilience of the Fraunhofer IAO. This goal is to be achieved in cooperation with the private sector and municipalities, among other means through the intelligent use of data. The range of services covers different areas -  from the establishment of innovative participatory procedures that enable cities ...

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A few weeks ago was an anniversary of the very first drive of the world's first electric vehicle. On April 19, 1881, the Trouvé Tricycle, a tricycle powered by a 70 W electric motor, rode through Rue Valois through Paris. The inventor of the car, which was named after him, was the French engineer Gustave Trouvé. The vehicle drove the route several times "with the speed of a good horse-drawn carriage," as Alexis Clerc ...

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The Smart Society Academy is an educational umbrella for smart city related training on all levels of operation: students (future professionals) on one hand and professionals in both cities and industry on the other. The Smart Society Academy is a direct result from the work within the Dutch-German partnership triggered by signing a Memorandum of Understanding on April 7^th on the Hightech Campus in Eindhoven and is powered ...

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A joint study by the BBSR, PwC and Fraunhofer IAO clearly shows: municipalities must make digitisation a strategic task to remain independent and empowered. They must address changes in the economy to be able to offer companies an attractive, networked environment. And they must have all population groups on board on the way to a Smart City – even those that are already unable to cope with today’s digital world. The results ...

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Starting this april Tom Hawxwell will be responsible for the UNaLab project at Fraunhofer IAO. It is one of several projects funded by the European commission within the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Together with the Finnish research institute VTT Fraunhofer will develop nature-based solutions to enable cities to reach their environmental objectives, as well as companies to develop business models in this...

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"The water is a friendly element to whomever is familiar with it and knows how to treat it", said Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Since no raw material for us humans is of such prominent significance as the water, the United Nations (UN) has launched the World Day of Water already 25 years ago to point out the importance but also the scarcity of the survival-important resource. Morgenstadt researchers at the Fraunhofer...

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The Morgenstadt network partners visited the Irish capital for a three day long meeting. The program included both best-practice tours as well as workshops and lectures on the subject of the city of the future...

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