On the way to Smart City Dresden: State capital and TU Dresden jointly implement pilot project

The state capital Dresden and the Dresden University of Technology are starting the implementation of the Smart City Dresden pilot project. TUD is involved as a scientific partner.

Digital project for integrated, sustainable and community-oriented urban development

The Smart City Dresden (MPSC) pilot project - a funding project of the German Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB) - is intended to promote the strategic digitalization of the state capital in the sense of integrated, sustainable and community-oriented urban development. The citizens of Dresden can contribute their ideas, hopes and doubts to the project; innovative energy supply models such as a residential quarter powered entirely by geothermal energy and photovoltaics are being tested; an app will make it possible to organize the activities of the Ostra-Gehege sports park in a digital and user-friendly way.

Until the end of 2026, nine experimental smart city measures for urban development and citizen participation will be investigated and implemented as models in the pilot neighborhoods Johannstadt, Friedrichstadt and Dresden-Ost/Prohlis. During this period, the future applicability for the entire city will also be tested.

TUD Dresden University of Technology is a co-initiator of the funding project. After the Smart City Strategy was approved by the Dresden City Council in June 2023, the state capital Dresden and TUD concluded two cooperation agreements totaling approximately EUR 2 million for further collaboration.

Scientific management of WISSENSARCHITEKTUR - Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture

WISSENSARCHITEKTUR - Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture has been in charge of the scientific management of the model project since the beginning and developed the Smart City Strategy together with the state capital. In the implementation phase, the interdisciplinary working group will evaluate the course of the project. Comprehensive participation formats ("Smart Participation") will be used to gather and evaluate feedback from civil society, politics, business and science. Workshop formats and networking with the national and international smart city community will also bring expertise at the cutting edge of research to the project. "The pilot project is a great opportunity for Dresden," says Prof. Jörg Rainer Noennig, the Head of WISSENSARCHITEKTUR. "It offers the opportunity to test and advance our Smart City Strategy in practice. The experience with the measures and the broad evaluation of the participation formats will provide us with insights that can significantly shape the digital progress of the state capital."

Open Data Project of Business Information Systems at the Faculty of Business and Economics

The Chairs of Business Information Systems headed by Prof. Susanne Strahringer and Prof. Martin Wiener at the Faculty of Business and Economics are involved with the research project "Open Data for Citizens, Business and Administration: Development and prototypical implementation of target group-specific approaches to value generation for urban development" as a Smart City measure.

Open Data refers to data that may be used, redistributed and reused by anyone for any purpose. The starting point is the already existing Open Data portal of the state capital Dresden (LHD), which makes municipal data available to the public. The project focus is, on the one hand, on actively promoting the use of Open Data by citizens, business and administration ("Promote & Facilitate") and, on the other, on evaluating the benefits generated by Open Data for the aforementioned target groups ("Monitor & Evaluate"). The project is being carried out in close cooperation with Dr. Lioba Buscher and her team from the Municipal Statistics Office of the city of Dresden (LHD).

More information:
https://tu-dresden.de/bu/architektur/wa/smart_city_dresden
www.dresden.de/mpsc

Contact:
Markus Jüngling
Communication Manager WISSENSARCHITEKTUR
Tel.: +49 351 463-32210