Open and Agile Smart Cities Team
OASC is a global network of cities and communities that assists local administrations of all sizes in their digital transformation. We work with our members, partners and independent experts to create sustainable impact for our communities via their digital tools and systems. OASC's main role is to support and ensure that URBREATH results will be scaled up ina financial sustainable manner and that knowledge will be transferred to cities beyond the project, not only in Europe but also on a global level. OASC is responsible for the PW7 task 7.6, which is the standardisation and data spaces activity. This task will ensure that URBREATH is aligned with the proposed standards and technologies recommended by the DS4SSCC for European data spaces. Additionally, the task will ensure that URBREATH's technical deliverables contribute to and are aligned with the Living-in.eu focus on technologies such as the Local Digital Twins (LDL) - based on the Minimal Interoperable Mechanisms (MIMs plus) specifications- and providing operational guidance for implementation for digital transformation and interoperability. As the OASC MIMs and interoperability are cornerstones of OASC, we were very keen on participating in this project.
URBREATH is a large and remarkable project to ensure widely the systematic integration of transformative technical and nature-based solutions to support carbon neutrality and climate change challengies for cities and communities. OASC will gain practical knowledge for the usability of MIMs plus activities especially through the city pilots. URBREATH is an important project to market the standartisation and harmonisation importance not only in general level, but for the two other projects that are part of this EU NBS cluster.
Most OASC cities have their own carbon neutrality targets between 2030-2050. OASC is actively participating in many EU projects to support these activities by using digital solutions and city tools for city planning, mobility, citizens engaging, etc. URBREATH is complementary with the climate mitigation and resilience solutions. Four different pilots with follower cities covering various climate areas of Europe, with natural based solutions, give a good opportunity to make practical intervetions and investements in real environment using harmonised and scalalable solutions.