CONCERTO Details Last Updated on Monday, 14 July 2014 16:05 Welcome to the CONCERTO website!The website is not currently being updated as the CONCERTO Premium project has been completed. Site updates can be expected as of November 2014 when the successor project "Smart Cities and Communities Information Systems" commences. You're interested in the use of multiple renewable energy sources, in combination with sustainable construction and energy efficiency measures? Look no further - Find role models, case studies, assessments, recommendations and intelligent enquiries on our website, concerning projects in 58 cities and communities that have already been or are being carried out. → You also have the possibility to choose the level of information that is best suited to your needs: a first level that provides “at a glance” facts and/or in some cases a secondary level for “more detailed” information about the CONCERTO cities and communities, implemented technologies and policies.
Smart City Living Lab Growing urbanisation, sustainable development, digital challenge, users’ involvement, economic and cultural attractiveness, governance are part of the main stakes cities have to tackle. To face this plural urban reality, it has become necessary to find adapted means to conceive cities and territorial development. A better consideration of the uses, the creation of real consultation methods have priority. Thus, the new processes to imagine have to respond to a main stake: to restructure urban places to live and to invent a creative, sustainable and citizen–centred city. As a laboratory for urban innovation, SmartCity invites people from creative and digital economy, users, academics, local authorities, architects and urban planners to create unreleased ways of apprehending and transforming the city. In France, a full-scale experimentation is led in the south of Paris since 2007, in partnership with the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. ◊ To study new urban uses