Sharing Cities is a Smart Cities ‘lighthouse’ programme that demonstrates how thoughtfully designed, integrated, open source solutions can be developed to serve the interest of people in an affordable and scalable manner.
Drawing on €25 million in EU funding, this five-year programme, launched in January 2016, brings together three ‘lighthouse’ cities (London, Lisbon and Milan) and three ‘fellow’ cities (Bordeaux, Burgas and Warsaw) in a joint effort to identify and implement innovative digitally enabled solutions and business models, which the participants expect to eventually be adopted by up to a hundred municipalities worldwide. Eurocities’ role is to enable the partners to replicate, scale up and share best practices.