DigiPlace

Digital innovation for cities

Edited on 09/07/2025

01/09/2019 15/03/2022

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  • Action Planning Network
  • Local economy
  • Digital transition
  • Entrepreneurship and SMEs
  • Small and medium-sized cities

Digi Place is an Action Planning Network that aims to set up an acceleration mechanism to enable cities to catch up the digitalisation opportunities in hard & soft infrastructure. Remove all the obstacles encountered by mid-sized cities in their digital journey: lack of strategic & global vision lack of technical and engineering capacities difficulties in incorporating the digital innovation. Municipalities need to guaranty the uptake of digital innovation by the local stakeholders: citizen and potential entrepreneurs.

Summary

LEAD PARTNER : Messina - Italy
  • Roquetas de Mar - Spain
  • Oulu - Finland
  • Saint-Quentin - France
  • Ventspils - Latvia
  • Portalegre - Portugal
  • Botoşani - Romania
  • Trikala - Greece

Timeline

Kick-off meeting

Network Outputs

Integrated Action Plans

IAP Municipality of Messina

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Messina - Italy
IAP Oulo

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Oulu - Finland
Ventspils Integrated Action Plan

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Ventspils - Latvia
Saint-Quentin Integrated Action Plan

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Saint-Quentin, France
PORTALEGRE Integrated Action Plan

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PORTALEGRE - PORTUGAL
ReStart mAI City

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Trikala - Greece
BOTOSANI - The Smart City to be

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Botosani - Romania

Articles

  • Innovating Urban Security: CITISENSE at Smart City Expo World Congress 2025

    5 November 2025 | “Connecting European Cities Towards Community-Based Urban Security” Session 

  • Articles
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    Razlog brings education into Virtual Reality through the MetaCity Project under URBACT IV

    The Municipality of Razlog is bridging the gap between education, cultural heritage, and digital innovation as a proud partner in the “MetaCity” project, funded under the URBACT IV Programme. Focused

  • Co-creating Safer, More Liveable Cities: Transnational Meeting in Manresa

    3–5 November 2025 | Manresa & Barcelona, Spain