The city of the future is facing a wide range of challenges, from health, food security and energy provision to transport and climate action. Facing these challenges relates to smartening our cities by applying ICT and new governance models. In a Smart City big data and ICT are widely applied and smart incentives are used to spur adoption of small-scale and efficient solutions for energy and transport. This also requires new governance as the city of the future will be governed by a wide diversity of public, private and citizens%E2%80%99 organizations. In sum, the concept Smart City is about urban vitality, resilience competitiveness, and - ultimately %E2%80" and in the end a high quality of life.Establishing Smart Cities - or rather the transition from traditional to smart cities - generates a plethora of questions. How should we exploit the potential in our cities to achieve greater vitality, competitiveness and resilience when coping with less and more expensive resources and space? How to identify and exploit the added value of smart technologies in cities? How to empower civil society in ways that they contribute optimally to achieving smart cities? How should we manage the transition from traditional cities towards a smart cities? And how to design (evidence-based) smart governance that contributes to designing the smart city of tomorrow?

Course leader
Dr. Maya van den Berg holds a Master of Arts in Contemporary History (2004) and PhD in Public Administration (2013). She is currently a research coordinator at the Centre of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (University of Twente).

Target group
Medium/advanced; Ba+ students and professionals

Fee info
EUR 750: This includes a sleeping tent, food and drink consumptions and course material. EUR 825: This includes a bed in a log cabin, food and drink consumptions and course material.The third option is a student room for EUR 900,-. For our early birds we have a 200 euro discount! Register before 1 May.

Scholarships
Check the International Office of your University if scholarships are available.

University of Twente
Address: Netherlands Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship, Drienerlolaan 5
Postal code: 752 NB Enschede
City: Enschede
Country: Netherlands
Website: http://www.utwente.nl/curiousu/
E-mail: study@utwente.nl
Phone: +31 53 4895489