NORO GREEN CITIES project: From Ambition to Action

Through a series of knowledge exchange and capacity building workshops with decision makers from different Romanian cities, we have provided both best practical examples, process tools and concrete funding opportunities for smart city projects.

We aim for the cities to gain a better understanding of the smart city ecosystem and help them initiate new public-private partnerships between municipalities, technology providers, and business partners to co-develop solutions. We seek to adopt or scale up smart city technologies, and accelerate the digital transformation.  

As a non-commercial and sector neutral innovation cluster, Nordic Edge also facilitates matchmaking sessions between the challenge owners – Romania cities and municipalities – with solution providers recruited from our pool of cluster members. By showcasing new scalable solutions with measurable impacts on sustainability we can raise the awareness of the possibilities of emerging technologies and establish new business partnerships.

Next week we look forward to welcome a delegation consisting mainly of mayors and vice-mayors from different cities in Romania. Innoasis – our own innovation hub in the middle of Stavanger – will be the ‘operations center’ where will dive into challenges related to both mobility, energy, urban infrastructure and smart city governance.