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• ‘Our City for All’
  This annual contest in Tiraspol aims to create a barrier-free environment and infrastructure for the disabled and people with limited mobility. It allows people with disabilities to carry out the tasks they need to do in all areas of their lives, including education, vocational training, work and culture. The competition’s main criteria is the accessibility of the adjacent territory, pedestrian and transport routes providing access to buildings. Find out more via: https://novostipmr.com/ru/news/18-12-27/5-glavnyh-itogov-goda-ravnyh-vozmozhnostey
• Cooperation with disability groups
  In Tiraspol, representatives from a civic organisation of people with disabilities are included in the town planning council. At the initial stage of designing a building, they can make recommendations regarding accessibility and ensure that all objects of social and cultural household purposes are equipped with functional accessibility means. 11 Find out more via: https://novostipmr.com/ru/news/18-12-27/5-glavnyh-itogov-goda-ravnyh-vozmozhnostey
• Dublin after hours
  In 2022 the Department for Tourism introduced a new pilot scheme to support the night life economy of Dublin and other Irish destinations by funding opportunities for museums and galleries to open later into the night. Extending opening hours in this way will help to drive more events within these venues such as live DJs, dancing, exhibitions, poetry readings, comedy shows, theatre, film, live podcasts, storytelling, classes and wellbeing initiatives, making the venues more accessible to a much wider audience. Museums and galleries can apply for up to €10,000 in funding to host late night events this year. The pilot has been very successful and several galleries such as Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery have already begun to programme more events later into the evening. Find out more via: https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/74100-successful-applicants-for-the-night-time-economy-support-scheme-announced/
• Gijonomía
  This new promotional campaign is focusing on an aspect of the city that is the most valued by tourists: the people. It aims to be a new framework for the image of the 72 city presented to visitors and potential tourists. The identity of the people and their culture are the subject of an anthropological study on the city, its hidden corners, its customs and above all, its inhabitants. Find out more at: www.gijonomia.es
• The Rolli Lab
  Rolli Lab is a creative initiative in Genoa that calls for ideas. The call is aimed at aspiring designers and entrepreneurs, start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises, associations, spin-offs and individuals who can apply individually or in teams. Rolli Lab is an initiative designed in partnership with the Santagata Foundation for the Economy of Culture to create a dynamic relationship between historical heritage and innovation, between the historic centre and the city. Find out more at: https://www.rolliestradenuove.it/rollo/
• Super Walls Event, Sustainable Street Art
  The Super Walls event is a street art festival taking place in the city and in eight neighbouring municipalities. The latter become then a real open-air museum, through murals made with a particular paint, able to absorb pollution. This event is an interesting starting point for environmental sustainability. Find out more at:https://www.biennalestreetart.com/il-progetto/70
• Tabakalera, a contemporary culture centre in a former tobacco factory
  Former tobacco factory from 1913 to 2003, the Tabakalera has been converted into a contemporary culture centre with a double purpose: production centre and activities programmer. Visitors can enjoy the beauty of this emblematic place in the city, as well as the view from the terrace. The building entrance, as well as the exhibitions are cost free, which is also the case for some activities of the cultural programme. Free individual guided visits are also available. Find out more at: https://www.sansebastianturismoa.eus/en/to-do/culture-art-architecture/exhibition-centres 65
• Experiential Tourism, to discover the city
  Palermo has initiated a tourist and cultural promotion through forms of experiential tourism, with the aim of raising awareness of the local resources and practical experiences in the city. Several projects have been then implemented. Among them, the “Girocavallo” project offers three music and theatrical walks in the Zen, Brancaccio and Danisinni neighbourhoods. Tourists were involved in reading passages and invited to paint and dance, followed by a street food tasting. A good example is also the project named “Chef for a day – The cuisine of the Monsù – A food and cooking tour from the Piazze della Grascia to the elegant 18-century mansions of the Piana dei Colli. A taste journey between the 1700s and 1800s through food”. The latter is including seven coach tours with step-by-step routes, within individual locations in search of ingredients to prepare an 18-century menu, a cooking show in teams, and a tasting the Monsù lunch.
• Smart Parking System
  With limited space, comes limited parking. Pafos is in the process of challenging this assertion with the new “Pafos Smart Parking” project. This project is a solution to the problem of optimal parking management in the city of Pafos. By utilizing technologies of the IoT and smartphones, the residents, and visitors to the city of Pafos can be informed in real time where and when to find free parking. Find out more at: 59 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intercomp.pafossmartparking&hl=gsw&gl=US
• Smart Public Transportation System
  Konya Metropolitan Municipality has introduced the Intelligent Public Transportation System ATUS to provide a more practical public transportation service. The locations of smart bike stations, whether there is a bike suitable for rental, whether there is an empty platform where the bike can be delivered, and similar information can be inquired from the website or the Mobile Konya Application. By 58 using ATUS; you can access the location of the public transportation vehicles, the estimated number of minutes to arrive at the stop, the public transportation lines passing through the station, route and stop information, and many more information about public transportation. ATUS also provides great convenience with its diversity of access channels. Find out more at: https://bilimmerkezleri.tubitak.gov.tr/konyabilimmerkezi/sanaltur/tr.html
• Smart Stations Project
  Within its “Smart Stations” project, the Antalya municipality has developed to benefit from climatic advantages of the city, the glass-covered bus stops with solar panels have touch-sensitive doors and indoor air conditioning device. The solar-powered bus stations that provide up-to-date passenger information on energy-saving screens, serves as a Wi-Fi hotspot and allows people to recharge their phones. There are 4 smart stops in Antalya and 300 stops with USB ports for phone charging via solar energy panels on the roof.  Find out more at: https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/01/05/antalya-goes-solar-how-this-turkish-city-is-transforming-its-energy-supply   https://www.matchup-project.eu/cities/antalya/   https://www.youris.com/energy/gallery/transformation-in-antalya-for-a-smarter-low-carbon-future.kl
• A SmART City Vocation
  Palermo has developed a SmART City vocation, with the aim of designing a city that defines smart, as a “public commodity”, the ethical before the aesthetic and a new way to talk, connect, confront and be resilient. The city is then implementing innovation policies and wants to be able to redesign itself in a variable and dynamic way in the present day. Thanks to the potential of arts and new technologies, Palermo is finding new forms of life, with the creation of services, jobs, and economic opportunities. The administration wants the city to be an open-air laboratory of technological and social innovation, to transform it and the territory into a smart community. Find out more at : https://www.comune.palermo.it/js/server/uploads/_15052020140904.pdf
• MEB, all museum offers in one place
  The MEB is a web portal that gathers all the museum offers of Padova. Users can find information, booking and ticketing, displays of collections, artworks, and main features of each museum. It is integrated with the management system of MABI catalogues of cultural heritage. Find out more at: https://padovamusei.it/it
• “ReinventaPorto” Project
  The “ReinventaPorto” project was launched with the original intention of providing digital training and assistance to 120 small and medium sized businesses in Porto. This was in direct response to the digital transformation of the tourism industry and the global COVID-19 pandemic. The project finished with having trained 204 SMEs in their transition to the digital economy and successfully enabled a more digitalised tourism industry in Porto. 56 Find out more at: https://www.investporto.pt/en/news/reinventaporto-supported-more-than-200-companies-in-digital-transition/
• Destination Hub. Ruhr
  Introduced in June 2021, the city of Essen has implemented an open data management system called The Destination Hub.Ruhr. It is used to help improve the visibility of all tourism-relevant data as well as improve networking around tourism offers. Available on various German tourism platforms such as DB Ausflug and the ADAC Trips app, the data is to be made accessible both throughout North Rhine-Westphalia and the German National Tourist Board’s Knowledge Graph, thus providing important information to a broader range of visitors.  Find out more at: https://www.ruhr-tourismus.de/en/ruhr-tourismus/marken-und-produkte/efre-nrw-projekte/metropole-ruhr-digitale-modelldestination-nrw/  52
• Safety Circle Project
  115 solar smart poles set up in the center of attraction called “Antalya Life Park” on Konyaaltı Beach that is 6,2 km long, in order to enable guest children, parents, people with various disabilities and their relatives to spend more comfortable time. With this application, elderly who have illnesses such as Alzheimer, visitors who have various disabilities, and pets can be tracked in terms of their locations. Within the scope of the project, wristbands are given to those in need via the Metropolitan Municipality information desk, and when children, pets or people in need go out of the 'safety circle' formed by smart solar poles, the system goes into alarm and transmits information to families' mobile phones via the application. While the solar panels on the poles produce energy, mobile devices can be charged with the USB ports on the body. The project, which strengthens Antalya in the smart city category, is planned to be implemented in more diverse and larger areas in the coming years.  Find out more at: https://antalya.com.tr/de/entdecken/aktiviteler/vergnugungsparks/beach-antalya-life-park
• The Integrated Connectivity System
  Managed by SISPI S.p.a, an in-house company of the Municipal Administration, the Integrated Connectivity System (SITEC), is aiming to provide advanced and distributed broadband connectivity to different categories of users, such as the Municipal Offices of the Palermo area and numerous services, including Internet, Wi-Fi, video surveillance, management of limited traffic zones’ entry points or road network sensors. The Telematic Ring, which consists of a powerful and branched fibre-optic infrastructure, is also part of the SITEC. It represents a fundamental asset for the community. Find out more at: https://sispi.it/
• Smart Gateway for smart solutions and solving challenges
  The Cork Smart Gateway illustrates that Cork is a smart city that embraces digital technologies, and the digital experience is constantly evolving there. It is a collaboration between local government, businesses, academic and research institutes and was launched in 2016 to identify and deploy smart solutions to seize emerging opportunities, solve regional challenges and enhance the reputation of Cork as an attractive place to live, work, visit and invest. Local businesses have been supported and engaged to discuss and explore themes such as technology, data, and digital tools. And particularly the Smart Gateway has provided a forum for enhanced citizen engagement in generating ideas for smart solutions in public service, research collaborations and city development. There is also an ongoing programme through the Smart Gateway to foster digital inclusion, enabling individuals and communities to access digital literacy.  Find out more at: https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-smart-gateway/  https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/business/council-supported-initiatives/cork-smart-gateway
• AR, VR, and 3D Reconstruction of the Alcazar of Seville
  Built in 1198, the Alcazar of Seville was originally the old mosque of the city. Now it’s Cathedral this multi-layered digital experience offers residents and visitors alike the opportunity to gain a greater understand the old mosque as it was built back in the 12 century. Furthermore, this digital feature allows for a new perspective on the city’s story past to be highlighted giving greater importance to uncovering the cultural space in a digital fashion. Find out more at: https://voyagerseville.com/en/3d-reconstruction-of-the-mosque-of-seville/
• "Tourist Lublin" App and AR
  The city of Lublin has launched a brand-new mobile application enriched with AR module called “Tourist Lublin”. Thanks to augmented reality and historical sources, the city of Lublin managed to revive nonexistent places like the parish church of the St. Michael the Archangel and water tower. By using AR (augmented reality), a technology that generates a three-dimensional virtual image, the app can show a virtual map that guides users to the places where mentioned buildings used to be located. In those particular locations, there are boards with a special tracker (geometric symbol) which users have to scan to see the virtual image. Thus, a virtually recreated building appears on the empty squares. Both objects can be observed at scale or real size and rotated around their axis. Both locals and visitors can make use of this app and see the city from a new lens. Find out more at: https://lublin.eu/en/what-to-see-do/tourist-culture-information/mobile-application-visit-lublin/ https://www.lubelskietravel.pl/en/musisz-zobaczyc/471-mobile-apps-that-will-help-you-to-visit-lubelskie 47
• Augmented Reality of Zeugma Ancient City
  For Gaziantep, the application of an augmented reality of the UNESCO World Heritage tentative site Zeugmas archaeological site helps bring the past to life. The AR application of the site enables visitors to gain an insight into what the excavations have revealed might have looked like. This measure is a digital innovation that pushes accessibility of knowledge using modern technology.  Find out more at: https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5726/  https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/turkeys-gaziantep-enters-metaverse-with-ancient-site-of-zeugma/news
• Rollindagando (Cultural Mapping of the Old Town)
  Under the city’s Digitalisation initiative, Genoa has also created Rollindagando; a database of information relating to the Cultural Mapping of the Old Town. The database includes every single building in Genoa (Rolli’s Palaces included) starting from their Prevailing/Antique era from the 12th to the 20th century. To update the database, the 2020 the Rollindagando project was conducted in collaboration with University of Genova and performs a new survey in relation to the state of conservation and the interventions carried out over the past 20 years in the Perimeter of UNESCO recognition. Find out more at: https://geoportale.comune.genova.it/
• Metrominuto Tour and Maps
  The Metrominuto Tour produces many positive effects: for the environment, health and mood, it reduces the costs of travel and offers opportunities for meeting and socialising in public spaces.  Metrominuto Genova is a map like that of public transport designed for pedestrian routes, in which the most significant places are represented as stops on various pedestrian lines connected in a network, which will show you how convenient it is to leave your vehicle at home to reach walk to your destinations, without having to worry about traffic and parking, enjoying the beauty of the city. Find out more at: https://www.visitgenoa.it/de/node/31887
• Sustainable Tourism Mobility Committee
  As part of a push to increase sustainable accessibility option in tourism, Pafos has created the “Sustainable Tourism Mobility 42 Committee” with the express goal to deal with the introduction of low-carbon E-mobility systems and services. These include but are not limited to charging stations for electric vehicles; public transport running on renewable energy such as the electric minibus; smart and integrated e-ticketing systems for tourists with multi-modal applications; and multi-lingual and multi-platform information and purchasing systems at tourist locations. These actions fall under the testing of “Mobility as a Service” action that Pafos is running and the city’s concept for sustainable tourism with low-carbon E-Mobility smart multi-modal services for visitors to archaeological sites, including accessible tourism mobility facilities. Find out more at: https://www.interregeurope.eu/good-practices/pafos-electric-minibus-for-sustainable-tourism-mobility-and-accessibility-cyprus
• Smart Cycling in Cyprus
  Pafos has a series of cycling paths that cover 600 km with 12 dedicated routes for visitors to choose from as a low-carbon form of traveling around the city and its surrounding areas. Additionally, these routes have been complimented with the introduction of Smart Signs (QR Codes) to help promote and provide rich, complete, and dynamic information about the cycle experience in Pafos. Find out more at: https://www.visitpafos.org.cy/active-pafos/cycling/