Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESEDevelopment of a holistic and cross-sector smart region
In the project “Smart Region Mayen-Koblenz”, Fraunhofer IESE is developing sustainable and integrative digitalization projects in the sense of a Digital Ecosystem.
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Reference project: Smart Region Mayen-Koblenz
In the project “Smart Region Mayen-Koblenz”, a holistic and cross-sector county-wide smart region strategy is to be developed that also focuses individually and in concrete terms on the ten municipalities belonging to the county. To do so, the competencies of City & Bits, Zebralog, and Fraunhofer IESE are being bundled. In this way, all challenges, requirements, constraints, and fields of action in the development toward a digitally sustainable region as well as the design fields of a modern smart region can be considered holistically. During the course of the project, these will be transferred into far-reaching development steps. The goal is to trigger a comprehensive cultural change in the region and among the stakeholders involved, a change that at the same time builds new digital bridges for analog challenges and is accompanied by a comprehensive participation and communication process.
Challenges
- Creation of an implementation-oriented digital agenda that is developed by citizens, multipliers, stakeholders, and public administration experts
- Creation of offerings that do not stand side by side, but rather support each other both in the context of the public administration and in the smart region
Contributions of Fraunhofer IESE
- Content-wise and strategic sorting as well as evaluation (scoring) of the developed results
- Conduction of citizen workshops and conceptual design of integrated measures of the Smart Region strategy
- Development of the results to project maturity
Goals / Results
- Development of digitalization projects in the sense of a Digital Ecosystem (development of new economic, social, and ecological value chains and jobs – Smart, For Purpose, and Green Economy)