The Smart Cities klub sees its contribution to cities and regions in providing examples of creating Smart Cities from a foreign practice, that can be applied to our conditions. Why are we doing this? We have the experience that cities mostly do not have and do not prepare development projects.

Too often, even Today the main motivation is to gain money from EU funds and not strategical thinking about priorities. Many city authorities are not really focused on project development. They are mostly focused on tracking grant calls, completing forms, and "meeting" the call criteria. The most common questions then are - what are the eligible costs, what will be the allocation for one project, what is the total allocation... It is quite strane game - where instead of sharing knowledge, cities compete for money. The emerging projects are often not very innovative and also not sustainable in the long run.

One of the options to exchange the know-how from abroad are workshops focused on specific topics and mostly the Summer school of Smart Cities, which we organize every year in Scandinavia and is dedicated to mayors of cities and villages, state administration staff and specialists, especially architects.

Smart Cities klub comes to Itapa with a new project, aimed at wider involvement of experts on Smart topics.