Twin4Resilience

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North West Europe

Date of latest update: 2025-05-12

Description

Description (EN):

In the green and digital transition, local and regional public authorities face increasingly complex issues in territorial planning. To achieve resilience and good livelihood, local and regional public authorities need systemic innovation in decision-making processes. Local Digital Twins (LDTs) are virtual 2D/3D representations of a territory, e.g. a city, created by modelling and simulation technology, based on datasets and -models. LDTs are building blocks of systemic innovation. LDTs can visualize, analyse and simulate territories in a way that could not be done before, integrating datasets from multiple stakeholders simultaneously in a single 2D/3D virtual environment. Today, LDT technology and high-value data sets are available even for communities with smaller budgets. Many cities experiment already with LDTs. But characteristics and maturity of experiments differ widely. Development and deployment is usually hindered by lack of understanding of what a LDT is, and how it can help in territorial planning. Resulting in lack of proof of impact, hence lack of local political support, and of opportunities to increase innovation capacity, notably among public authorities. Twin4Resilience (T4R) aims for: - Increased understanding, skills, and competences among civil servants, territorial planning companies, and citizens on opportunities and limitations of using LDTs. - LDTs deployed inclusively, democratically, affordably, and sustainably in territorial decision-making processes in many more local and regional public authorities, increasing resilience and improving livelihood. - Narrowed gap between cities implementing LDTs (frontrunners), those trying to (followers), and those not (yet) aware of the potential of LDTs. T4R Outputs (as schematized in Attachment 'T4R intervention and cooperation logic') are: - 1 Joint Strategy and Action Plan, resulting from joint implementation of 4 jointly developed Frameworks covering LDT technical design, governance, ethical/inclusion/democratization, and training. The Frameworks will be co-created by the Transnational Framework Groups, and with stakeholders outside the T4R consortium (including local stakeholders). The Frameworks serve as an implementation handbook for cities and communities starting with LDTs, enabling all frontrunners and followers to benefit from WP2 and WP 3. - 8 Pilot Actions jointly developed and implemented by 8 local and regional authorities - CITYUTR, AMS, DCC, RM, BXLCITY, ICL, SCHUTT, and VMM - in 4Transnational Framework Groups and 4 Transnational territorial planning Thematic Clusters (Energy, Mobility, Environment, Integrated Territorial Planning) in which all partners – frontrunner and followers - participate, in cooperation with stakeholders outside T4R, including local stakeholders groups, resulting in a jointly developed Solution. - 300 Participants in Joint Training scheme. T4R will create a collective train-the-trainer program, based on the European lifelong learning framework European Skills, Competences, and Occupations, in close cooperation with local and regional authority territorial planners, local stakeholders, T4R innovation support partners, as well as the Transnational Community of Practice of 130+ stakeholders outside T4R. Beneficiaries are Local, regional, and national public authorities, General Public Higher education and research organisations, Interest groups and NGOs, Small and Medium Enterprises. Approach and need for transnational cooperation: T4R brings together 7 local and 2 regional public authorities, 3 higher education and research organizations, 1 SME, and 1 NGO, from 6 different NWE countries. In the project, 8 local and regional authorities will jointly implement 8 Pilot Actions. They encompass frontrunner and follower cities and communities already working with Local Digital Twins as data-driven decision support tools in territorial planning. They range in size from 6,000 to 919,000 inhabitants, and differ in cultural and political characteristics. This diversity in many respects ensures that T4R Outputs and Results will be of use and value for all public authorities in NWE and beyond, which is further strengthened by collaboration throughout the project with the Transnational Community of Practice of stakeholders outside the T4R consortium, including local stakeholders and relevant ongoing European projects and networks. New/original: T4R is not about developing technology, but about increasing people’s capacity (hence also policies and governments) to deal with change.T4R will dramatically enhance the research and innovation capacities of 130+ organizations to better deal with complex challenges in territorial planning using LDT as data-driven decision support tools – ethically, inclusively, democratically, affordably, effectively, and sustainably - through joint action on technical design, governance, ethics, and skilling.

Actual Achievements (EN):

In Period 1, T4R Lead Partner (LP) CITYUTR: - Finalized T4R Partnership Agreement; - Drafted T4R Project Management Plan with all PPs , clarifying roles, responsibilities, interdependencies, contacts; - Organized 3 online Project Management Team meetings (8 April 2024, 13 May 2024, 4 June 2024) with all WP leads, T4R Communication manager, A1.9 Transnational Community of Practice (around T4R) Coordinator, and A1.3-A1.6 Framework leads; - Set up project management tools, notably T4R online collaboration platform in Teams (hosted by LIST). - Followed up questions on Interreg NWE program and T4R project; - Corrected 2 minor issues in Application. For all 14 T4R Project Partners (PPs), Period 1 was dedicated to getting to know eachother better and organizing project implementation internally. In support of this, LP organized: - T4R Kick-off meeting on-site in Utrecht (5-7 March 2024); - T4R 1st Consortium meeting on-site in Amsterdam (11-12 June 2024). Both were attended by all PPs. LP actively encouraged PPs to participate in the meetings organized by Interreg NWE Joint Secretariat: - Interreg NWE seminar in Lille (14-15 February 2024), attended by all PPs except K8 (due to illness) and RM; - Interreg NWE Communication webinar (13 March 2024), attended by T4R Communication Manager (CITYUTR) and at least 5 other PPs; - Interreg NWE Reporting webinar (23 May 2024). WP 1 Resilient Strategy: All Activities due to run in Period 1 were initiated: - A.1.1 Local stakeholders engagement strategies: all 8 Piloting partners involved local stakeholders and delivered their strategy, guided by templates provided by LP and DKSR for joint learning. - A.1.2 Transnational cooperation between Pilots (DKSR): a questionnaire to identify the LDT status quo was drafted in cooperation with the 4 Framework leaders (A1.3-A1.6: LDT technical design, governance, ethics, inclusion and democratization, and training), answered by all 8 Pilot Actions, resulting four deep-dive workshops during the Consortium meeting in Amsterdam (June 2024), in which all PPs participated. - A.1.3 Jointly create a Technical design Framework (AMS): met twice online with other Framework leads and WP2 lead DKSR, and some PPs, to share progress and align activities. - A.1.4 Jointly create a Governance Framework (DF): met twice online with other Framework leads and WP2 lead DKSR to share progress and align activities; prepared interview guidelines supported by literature research. - A.1.5 Jointly create the Ethics, inclusion, democratization Framework (DCC and BXLCITY): several meetings with all PPs resulted in a draft Framework, presented in the Consortium meeting in Amsterdam (June 2024); met twice with other Framework leads and WP2 lead DKSR to share progress and align activities. - A.1.6 Jointly create the Train-the-trainer Framework (K8): research on methodology and content for training topics and levels; met twice with other Framework leads and WP2 lead DKSR to share progress and align activities. - A.1.7 Jointly create and implement the T4R Communication plan (CITYUTR): delivered D1.7.1 Communication Plan. - A.1.8 Ongoing dissemination activities (CITYUTR): all PPs contributed to the NWE T4R webpage, described T4R on their website, and placed T4R poster in public place. - A1.9 Transnational Community of Practice around T4R (LIST): delivered D1.9.1 Transnational Community of Practice Plan. - A1.10 Create T4R Joint Implementation Strategy (Starter Kit): Kick-off meeting in Utrecht (March 2024), Consortium meeting in Amsterdam (June 2024), and Project Management Plan strengthened joint project implementation base. WP2 lead DKSR organized 2 online meetings (16 April 2024, 7 May 2024) with the A1.3-A1.6 Framework leads to share and align activities towards D1.10.1 T4R Joint Implementation Strategy (Starter Kit, due Period 5). WP 2 Resilient Pilot Actions (DKSR, with DCC): The WP2 Activities due to run in Period 1 were initiated: - A.2.9 Communication check-ins (CITYUTR): 3 check-ins were organized. - A.2.10 T4R presentations (CITYUTR) 5 presentations at national and international conferences and meetings were given. WP2 leader DKSR (supported by DCC) drafted a WP2 management plan, and a questionnaire for comprehensive overview of the LDT status quo of the Pilot Actions, which was answered by all 8 Pilot Action Managers. Based on the outcomes, DKSR organized (with DF) 4 workshops at the Consortium meeting in Amsterdam (June 2024), and shared a first Table of Content / template for the Pilot Action Plans (D2.1.1-D2.1.8, due Period 3), supporting joint learning. WP 3 Resilient People (HKU): The WP3 Activity due to run in Period 1 was initiated: - A.3.5 Monitoring and evaluation (HKU): HKU, with K8 and AD, identified current expertise within the consortium on micro learning and -credentials and training needs of the Piloting partners, through questionnaires and interviews. All 10 Deliverables due in Period 1, were uploaded in JEMS: D1.1.1-D.1.18, D1.7, D1.9.

Project outputs: T4R Joint Implementation Strategy (JIS)(EN)
Pilot Actions developed jointly and implemented in project(EN)
Jointly developed Solutions(EN)
Participation in T4R joint training schemes(EN)
Website: http://t4r.nweurope.eu

Thematic information

Green technologies ICT and digital society

Priority: (VI-B_NWE_4) Improving territorial resilience in NWE through innovative and smart transformation

Priority specific objective: RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity

Type of intervention: 026 Support for innovation clusters including between businesses, research organisations and public authorities and business networks primarily benefiting SMEs

Partners (14)

Lead Partner: Gemeente Utrecht

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 998300818

Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL0022.20.647.B01

Department: Department of Urban Planning

Address: Stadsplateau, 3521 AZ Utrecht, Netherlands

Department address: Stadsplateau, 3521 AZ Utrecht, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.utrecht.nl

Total budget: EUR 1 150 000.16

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 690 000.09

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 460 000.07

Gemeente Amsterdam

Name: Gemeente Amsterdam

Department: Sustainability / Image and Data

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 998617135

Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL00 256 4440 B01

Address: Amstel, 1011 PN Amsterdam, Netherlands

Department address: Weesperplein, 1018XA Amsterdam, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.amsterdam.nl

Total budget: EUR 566 300.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 339 780.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 226 520.00

Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht

Name: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht

Department: Center for Research and Innovation

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999430674

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 41178974

Address: Nieuwekade, 3511RV Utrecht, Netherlands

Department address: Nieuwekade, 3511RV Utrecht, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.hku.nl

Total budget: EUR 398 737.50

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 239 242.50

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 159 495.00

Digitaal Vlaanderen

Name: Digitaal Vlaanderen

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999575107

Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0316380841

Address: Havenlaan , 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Regional public authority

Website: https://www.vlaanderen.be/digitaal-vlaanderen/

Total budget: EUR 704 435.80

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 422 661.48

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 281 774.32

Gemeng Schëtter

Name: Gemeng Schëtter

Department: Sustainable Development

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 881494485

Partner’s ID if not PIC: LU 103 584 77

Address: Place de l'église, L-5367 Schuttrange, Luxembourg

Department address: Place de l'église, L-5367 Schuttrange, Luxembourg

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.schuttrange.lu/

Total budget: EUR 399 825.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 239 895.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 159 930.00

ALL DIGITAL AISBL

Name: ALL DIGITAL AISBL

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 960056434

Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0830256454 | 0830.256.454

Address: Rue du Commerce, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Total budget: EUR 301 108.50

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 180 665.10

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 120 443.40

Daten-Kompetenzzentrum Städte und Regionen

Name: Daten-Kompetenzzentrum Städte und Regionen

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 890595025

Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE342267182 | HRB 227659 | Commercial Registry Number (Germany) (EN)

Address: Winterfeldtstrasse , 10781 Berlin, Germany

Legal status: private

Organisation type: SME

Website: http://www.dksr.city

Total budget: EUR 617 022.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 370 213.20

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 246 808.80

GBER schemes / de minimis: GBER Article 20

K8 Institut fuer strategische Ästhetik

Name: K8 Institut fuer strategische Ästhetik

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 911124396

Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE297606655

Address: Keplerstrasse, 66117 Saarbruecken, Germany

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: https://www.k8.design

Total budget: EUR 882 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 529 200.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 352 800.00

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Name: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Department: IT for Innovative Services (ITIS)

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 934320200

Partner’s ID if not PIC: LU27327040

Address: Avenue des Hauts Fourneaux, L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Department address: Avenue des Hauts Fourneaux, L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.list.lu

Total budget: EUR 458 870.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 275 322.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 183 548.00

Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij

Name: Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij

Department: International cooperation

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 953383125

Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0887.290.276

Address: Dokter De Moorstraat , 9300 Aalst , Belgium

Department address: Dokter De Moorstraat , 9300 Aalst , Belgium

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Regional public authority

Website: https://en.vmm.be/

Total budget: EUR 882 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 529 200.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 352 800.00

Intercommunale Leiedal

Name: Intercommunale Leiedal

Department: Ruimte & leefomgeving / Digidal

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 989579742

Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE 0205 350 681

Address: President Kennedypark, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium

Department address: President Kennedypark, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.leiedal.be/

Total budget: EUR 397 908.56

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 238 745.13

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 159 163.43

Ville de Bruxelles / Stad Brussel

Name: Ville de Bruxelles / Stad Brussel

Department: Smart City unit in department Strategy and Digital Transformation

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 950386407

Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0207373429

Address: Rue des Halles, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Department address: Rue des Halles, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.bruxelles.be/

Total budget: EUR 661 500.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 396 900.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 264 600.00

Rennes Métropole

Name: Rennes Métropole

Department: Information Geography Department

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 892062829

Partner’s ID if not PIC: FR25243500139 | 243 500 139

Address: Avenue Henri Fréville CS 93111, 35031 Rennes, France

Department address: Avenue Henri Fréville CS 93111, 35031 Rennes, France

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://metropole.rennes.fr

Total budget: EUR 354 450.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 212 670.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 141 780.00

Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath

Name: Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath

Department: Smart Cities

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 992549979

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 4773215U

Address: Civic Offices, Wood Quay, D08 RF3F Dublin, Ireland

Department address: Palace Street , D02 T277 Dublin, Ireland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.dublincity.ie/

Total budget: EUR 601 754.58

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 361 052.74

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 240 701.84

Contractors:

Name: RealSim Ltd.
VAT registration or tax identification number: IE9683183D

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Lead partner

Project partner

Summary

Operation of strategic importance (OSI) or above EUR 5 million

Project name (EN): Twin4Resilience

Project acronym: T4R

Project ID: NWE0200291

Project start date: 2024-01-01

Project end date: 2027-06-30

Project status: ongoing

Relevant linked projects:

Horizon2020 - Digital Urban European Twins for smarter decision making (DUET, 2019-2022)
The DUET project provided virtual city replicas which make it easier to understand the complex interrelations between traffic, air quality, noise, and other urban factors. Powerful analytics modelled the expected impacts of potential change to help city authorities make better evidence-based operational decisions and longer term policy choices. Thus, DUET developed and validated the use of Digital Twins for better policy making.
Three city test beds covered a range of scales for testing different scenarios related to mobility, health, and environment, which were chosen due to immediate policy needs and the fact that these issues often intersect and impact each other. Which provided a perfect opportunity for robustly testing the Digital Twins with multidisciplinary input and multi-sectoral output.
DUET was an award winning project on the "Smart city EXPO world congress" in Barcelona in 2021.
The DUET Consortium is working on a book providing an introduction to Local Digital Twins for data-supported decision making, outlining the technology and standards involved in creating twin instances, as well as exploring potential benefits. The open access book is due for publication in 2023.
In the implementation of the EC DG CONNECT tender to collect functional and performance requirements for a Local Digital Twin toolbox (May-August 2023), members of the DUET consortium, including T4R project partner DF, will be interviewed as the DUET Digital Twin architecture is an important example.
(EN) | The DUET Digital Twin Maturity Model provides an easy-to-understand pathway for the LDT implementation journey. The maturity level depends on the level of the LDT solution itself, the involved sponsors and the users involved in a specific policy question. Once the ‘As Is’ state is identified, cities can discuss and explore where they want ‘to be’ so they can better plan and prepare how to achieve their vision and create their strategy and roadmap for change.
Technologically, the DUET Digital Twins enabled the prototyping of urban service changes and/or new ideas quickly and effectively. Improvement was achieved by simulating and experimenting with what-if scenarios involving policy-ready-data, cloud and advanced analytics. Predictive simulations created a better understanding of how a service can meet the needs of its target audience, enabling teams from across an organisation (e.g. engineering, customer service) to make more informed choices together.
DUET promoted data-driven decision making by building a comprehensive, virtual representation of a city's processes, that can be used to measure, analyse and predict operational impact across an entire city or region. This was to enable cities to understand what is happening across its multi-disciplinary domains and services. With this knowledge, cities could react quickly to events and simulate alternative policy and operational approaches based on real data, as opposed to making assumptions based on generalized expectations.
DUET Digital Twin open architecture will serve as an important design example in T4R. T4R also builds on the DUET Digital Twin Maturity Model by using and refining the DUET co-design and co-creation approach, bringing data providers and policy questions and owners together. And T4R builds on DUET’s technical experiments by linking with EU dataspaces in support of multiple policy scenarios. As well as DUET’s pilot action design and implementation, cross-border cooperation, and overall learnings.
(EN), Digital Europe Program - Data Space for Sustainable Smart Cities and Communities (DS4SSCC, 2022-2023), which is followed-up by calls for its deployment
Cities and communities can be both providers and consumers of data and services. Hence, they have the potential to bring together a wide range of information in a harmonised manner to provide intelligence, and ultimately improve the delivery of services and quality of life for citizens and communities. However, this is hindered by the silos of cities and communities, the lack of interoperability and ability to securely and efficiently share data, and the absence of effective business models. Data spaces, as infrastructure that enables data transactions between different data ecosystem parties, bring together a variety of data from different sources on local, regional, or national levels and act as an enabler of data-driven innovations like local digital twins. The DS4SSCC initiative was launched by six pan-European organisations representing governance, technical, and civil society expertise (a.o. Open and Agile Smart Cities network, Eurocities, European Network of Living Labs, FIWARE Foundation). DS4SSCC works with piloting organisations, among which are the T4R partners AMS, DF, and LIST.
(EN) | T4R will build on the results of DS4SSCC, mostly its Reference Architecture Model and Cookbook, Catalogue of specifications, and data space governance schemes.
The Catalogue of specifications developed by the DS4SSCC partners provides an overview of building blocks (technical and non-technical) required to set up and operate a data space for smart and sustainable cities and communities. The building blocks are mechanisms to implement the Minimum Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs) Plus that are promoted by the Living-in.EU initiative.
The Data governance scheme, developed together with European cities and their local stakeholders, aims to guide the practices and interactions with various stakeholders (e.g., cities, industry, academia, civil society, etc.) in cities and communities. This multi-stakeholder governance scheme: (1) considers roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders in the data space; (2) identifies standardised access rights and business models for the management of the data ecosystem; (3) determines conditions for access, sharing, processing, and using data within (local) data ecosystems; explore mechanisms for identity management and trust; and (4) establishes data quality assurance guidelines and standards; while taking into consideration existing European policy, legislation, and regulations. The DS4SSCC Data governance scheme can help T4R to overcome local challenges related to data sharing with different types of stakeholders (including private sector).
T4R builds on DS4SSCC by aligning T4R with the DS4SSCC recommendations, which serve as a foundation for T4R's Frameworks, notably on LDT Technical design and Governance (WP1), as well as for the T4R Pilot Actions (WP2), guiding technical and non-technical building blocks, including data governance practices, to overcome local data sharing challenges.
(EN), Erasmus+ - CYANOTYPES (2022-2026)
CYANOTYPES develops and tests a methodological framework on how people “learn how to learn”, resulting in upskilling and reskilling processes for different stakeholder groups leading to change and innovation in education and training.
CYANOTYPES is a member of the Pact for Skills for the Cultural and Creative Industry, a five year plan formulated by the European Commission to define new skill sets for the Cultural Creative Sectors and Industries.
The Pact is firmly anchored in the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights and supports the goals of the Green Deal and the digital transformation, as set out in the Commission communication “A strong Social Europe for Just Transitions”. The Pact aims to mobilise and incentivise private and public stakeholders to take concrete action for the upskilling and reskilling of people of working age, and, when relevant, pool efforts in the partnerships.
This effort is based on the European Skills Agenda which aims to help individuals and businesses develop a wider range of more effective skills. The goal of this European Skills Agenda is not only to up-skill and re-skill European citizens in a framework of lifelong learning, but also to strengthen creative and entrepreneurial competences, to put these newly acquired and much needed skill sets into practice.
CYANOTYPES is part of Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills, which is funded by the European Commission Erasmus+ Programme.
T4R partner HKU coordinates CYANOTYPES, while T4R partners K8 and ALL DIGITAL are also partners of the CYANOTYPES Consortium. (EN) | T4R builds on the CYANOTYPES project’s methodological framework on ‘(re)learning how to learn’. To address the complex challenges of territorial planning in the face of the green and digital transition, we need to employ all the competences and disciplines we have to meet viable solutions. The arts can perform extremely well by providing part of the cultural and social cohesion but also helping people to understand different scenarios, explaining things in different and more collaborative ways. T4R capitalizes on the CYANOTYPES learning framework of needed competences that will encourage people to work together. This methodological conceptual framework, called ‘Triple Loop Learning, is a framework to affect changes in the way people learn. Think about spirals: the first loop is essentially what we do every day. Second loop learning is the phase of realization that the categories we are using are no longer enough and we need to support new ways of reasoning. The third loop is relearning how to learn, rethinking how to think. This methodological framework addresses the need of T4R partners for a new learning framework to facilitate innovation, leaving the primacy of disciplines that often decontextualize the problem and instead begin a process of mutual learning and recontextualization, facilitating T4R partners to train-their-trainers to develop and deploy advanced technologies such as LDTs as decision support solution in territorial planning.
(EN), EC DG CONNECT – 2022-2023 Tenders to build a Local Digital Twins Toolbox
Lack of awareness and readiness of EU communities that are at an early stage, or have not started yet their digital transformation, affects European capacity to deploy and scale-up AI-powered digital twins and enable local data platforms in a large number of urban and rural communities. Therefore EC DG CONNECT has published tenders from end 2022 onwards to build and deploy a Local Digital Twins Toolbox.
One of the objectives of the 1st tender (to be implemented May-August 2023) is to collect - through a wide and open consultation - functional and performance requirements to form a complete and consistent set of technical requirements from which a Local Digital Twin toolbox will be technically architected and designed.
The second tender (to be implemented August 2023 – July 2025) is to assess the general digital maturity of cities with the Lordimas tool. Based on this assessment a suitable offering will be made to help cities gain awareness on digital possibilities, create a digital strategy, and support them in buying solutions from the market (based on ready to use technical descriptions in procurement and a helpdesk with services).
A third tender (publication expected end 2023) will focus more on the digitally most mature cities and regions.
(EN) | T4R will build on the methodologies and results of the EC DG CONNECT tenders aimed at development of a LDT Toolbox.
In addition:
- The winner of the first tender, which will be implemented May-August 2023, will interview T4R project partner DF on their results, together with others, in the T4R related Horizon2020-project DUET (2019-2022). Through DF, T4R will be fed with the insights and results that will be delivered by this first tender, which will be integrated in WP1 if of use to T4R.
- Insights and results from the second and third tenders will be taken into account, and integrated in T4R if available in time and fitting T4R objectives. T4R partner
- T4R project partner DF is Digital Flanders works as expert in all three tenders, and is one of the partners which was granted the 2022-2023 Local Digital Twins Toolbox tender 2 lot 2: “Advancing initial stages for the transformation of Smart Communities” which involves training, dissemination, procurement, creation of digital transformation strategies and a roadmap for gaining maturity towards a digital twin, from which T4R will benefit, notably in WP1. (EN), Research initiative:
Steering Representations—Towards a Critical Understanding of Digital Twins.
Wageningen University & Research: P. Korenhof · V. Blok · S. Kloppenburg (2021).
The technology sector sees LDTs as a tool for efficiency and optimization. Governmental agencies see Local Digital Twins as a means to improve decision-making related to e.g. climate change, city planning, and democratic participation. The authors of this article propose to see LDTs as steering techniques. Which comes with a number of considerations to take into account when deploying LDTs:
(1) LDTs are inherently normative: any digital representation is the result of human choices and interpretations. One cannot correct or optimize anything without an idea of what is good. LDTs are shaped by the purposes and interests of those that create the representation. Therefore, there is never ‘the’ digital twin of a physical area or entity, only ‘a’ digital twin of it.
(2) LDTs are inevitably incomplete: as collecting data on qualitative experiences differences is more difficult than collecting data on quantitative experiences and differences, qualitative experiences and differences may end up being underrepresented.
(3) LDTs may affect the distribution of power, based on control of resources like the hardware, software, and data, and who has the skills to understand and work with it.
The article advises to explore the Local Digital Twin’s potential for participatory governance and self-empowerment, for example by including a wide group of stakeholders and allowing them to explore different future scenarios in order to find a balance between the interests involved.
(EN) | T4R builds on this article by aiming to design and deploy Local Digital Twins wisely, affordably, effectively and sustainably as decision support tools in territorial planning.
The considerations in the article concern a wider societal debate on government use of new technology (including for example AI), which, if not addressed properly, may lead to underuse or wrong use of new technology such as Local Digital Twins, eventually undermining legitimacy of and/or trust in government.
The considerations in the article are therefore at the heart of T4R from the start and in every Work Package:
- In the Technical design, Governance, Ethics/inclusion, Democratization, and Training Frameworks in WP1,
- In the monitoring and evaluation of the activities, notably in WP2, and
- in the implementation of the training scheme (WP3).
Also, the article’s recommendation to work with Local Stakeholder Groups is integrated in T4R from the start, and throughout the implementation of the project.
(EN), Living-in.eu –
Community on Local Digital Twins
Living-in.eu is an initiative by the European Commission to connect all levels of government in the EU to join forces to scale up digital solutions so that at least 300 million Europeans can enjoy a better quality of life by 2025. Living-in.eu aims for an inclusive, digital Europe so that every community can enjoy economic and social benefits through digital services, technologies, infrastructures and skills.
The Living-in.eu Declaration is signed by 152 representatives of a public administration at local, regional, national or European level. Living-in.eu is supported by Eurocities (network of and for European cities), ERRIN (network of and for European regions), CCRE-CEMR (local and regional Europe), Open and Agile Smart Cities network, European Network of Living Labs, and the European Committee of the Regions.
The work of Living-in.eu focuses on standards and technical specifications to achieve interoperability of data, systems, and platforms among cities and communities, education and capacity building, developing and validating local key performance indicators and data collection procedures for common and transparent monitoring and evaluation, financing, and removing legal barriers.
Living-in.eu works in Communities of Practice around specific Solutions. One of those Communities of Practice / Solutions is Local Digital Twins. The Living-in.eu Community of Practice on Local Digital Twins has 34 members from 13 countries, among which 26 cities.
(EN) | Of the 8 piloting local and regional authorities in T4R, 5 are signatories of the Living-in.eu Declaration (CITYUTR, AMS, DCC, BXLCITY, RM).
At least one T4R project partner is member of the Community of Practice on Local Digital Twins (CITYUTR).
T4R and Living-in.eu share the goal to help the concept of European local digital twins move forward and create the ground for enabling many EU cities to implement their own digital twin, while at the same time increase the twins’ level of maturity and create industry standards that ensure European interoperability.
T4R will build on and contribute to the CoP’s concrete LDT use cases from around the EU that were /are being brought to the table. As well as the challenges that are discussed in the CoP related to governance, ecosystem data management (data availability and sharing, data governance and stewardship, shared data models and standards), cybersecurity and privacy, ethics, interoperability and skills.
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Total budget/expenditure: EUR 8 375 912.10

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 5 025 547.24

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 60.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 5 025 547.24. Co-financing rate, 60.00%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Deliverables:

Local stakeholder engagement strategy: CITYUTR
Local stakeholder engagement strategy: AMS
Local stakeholder engagement strategy: DCC
Local stakeholder engagement strategy: RM
Local stakeholder engagement strategy: BXLCITY
Local stakeholder engagement strategy: ICL
Local stakeholder engagement strategy: SCHUTT
Local stakeholder engagement strategy: VMM
Transnational pilot cooperation plan
Joint template for the 8 Pilot Action Plans
T4R Joint Technical Design Framework
T4R Joint Technical Design monitoring and evaluation plan
T4R Joint Governance Framework
T4R Joint Governance monitoring and evaluation plan
T4R Joint Ethics, Inclusion, and Democratization Framework
T4R Joint Ethics, Inclusion, and Democratization monitoring and evaluation plan.
T4R Joint Train-the-trainers Framework
T4R Joint Train-the-trainers monitoring and evaluation plan
Joint Communication Plan
1st Communication Report
2nd Communication Report
3rd Communication Report
Interreg NWE T4R webpage
Communication on the launch, progress and results of the project
A3 poster (14)
Transnational Community of Practice Plan
T4R Joint Implementation Strategy (JIS), the “Starter Kit”, based on the four Frameworks
Joint template for the four Frameworks.
T4R Joint Strategy and Action Plan, the “Implementation Handbook” as a result of the project
Pilot Action Plan CITYUTR
Pilot Action Report: CITYUTR
Pilot Action Plan
AMS
Pilot Action Report: AMS
Pilot Action Plan DCC
Pilot Action Report: DCC
Pilot Action Plan: RM
Pilot Action Report: RM
Pilot Action Plan BXLCITY
Pilot Action Report: BXLCITY
Pilot Action Plan: ICL
Pilot Action Report: ICL
Pilot Action Plan: SCHUTT
Pilot Action Report: SCHUTT
Pilot Action Plan: VMM
Pilot Action Report: VMM
Communication check-ins
T4R presentations
LDT training for technical & non- technical users to democratize planning processes (beginner level)
LDT training technical & non- technical users to democratize planning processes (intermediate level)
LDT training for technical & non-
technical users to democratize
planning processes (expert
level)
Train-the-Trainers Training Certification
Report on the established
micro-credential-based trainer
certification scheme
Report on assistance to trainers and co-facilitators in all 8 pilot
locations
Report on training monitoring and evaluation
Certificate ceremonies
Promotional video
Final conference

Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
RCO 085 - Participations in joint training schemes, Measurement unit:

Programme Common Result Indicator:

RCR 081 - Completions of joint training schemes, Measurement unit:
RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:

Programme Result Indicator:

PSR 1: Organisations with increased institutional capacity due to their participation in cooperation activities across borders, Measurement unit: Organisations

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North West Europe

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2025-05-12

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

70 / 70 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

739 / 739 (100%)

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Twin4Resilience

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Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

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