The infrastructure engineering software company is looking for partners to work on DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04-DEVELOPCITI

Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions - including open, scalable digital twins for cities and facilities - are used by professionals and organizations of every size, future-proofing all types of infrastructure, and in all lifecycle stages.

Developing citiverse

TOPIC ID: DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04-DEVELOPCITI

Programme: Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)
Call: Cloud, Data and Artificial Intelligence (DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04)

ExpectedOutcome:
The action will result in one or more projects proposing varied use cases for the CitiVerse. Such project(s) may be focusing on the same pilot areas envisaged by the EU Smart Communities data space project (call 3 [DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-03-DS-SMART]), although focus on other pilot areas is also possible. The concept could also be built on the existing EU data infrastructure and interconnected Local Digital Twins.

The project(s) should also propose a roadmap to expand CitiVerse solutions in Europe using Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIM)-compliant standards and EU technology solutions and make recommendations for interoperable and open CitiVerse platforms in line with EU values and policy landscape.

Objective:
The action will help define what the ‘CitiVerse’ means for Europe building on the smart communities’ data infrastructure that is developed under WP2021-22 and WP23-24. The objective is to bring EU CitiVerse industry, including SMEs, together in developing the different layers of VR/AR worlds useful for local authorities and citizens. The project(s) stemming from this action will take into account potential EDIC in the field.

The action could build on existing local digital twins expanding their capabilities. One or more projects, led by the industry in cooperation with one or more communities, will introduce VR/AR and metaverse technology to allow citizens and other stakeholders to «navigate and interact» in their urban spaces from basic ‘default’ sensory experiences all the way to digital asset-enhanced AR overlays merging the physical and virtual communities into a hybrid metropolis. This will create a steady and immersive environment for citizens and businesses, a CitiVerse, that can be used for virtual/real spatial planning, management or navigation while also enhancing the social, architectural, green and cultural heritage dimension of living spaces.

Use cases will span from hybrid systems to fully-fledged verses created with data coming from various data sources, notably from the EU data spaces such as the smart cities and communities, but also from other public and private sources. European industry, including the wealth of European SMEs active in technologies relevant for metaverses and in content creation, will contribute to its development, taking the leadership in an area rich of possibilities. The action will contribute to the ecosystem of SMEs and larger companies nurtured through the VR/AR Industrial Coalition, and at the same time it can benefit from the mobilising and structuring actions of the Coalition as well as from integrating the values and principles of the New European Bauhaus initiative. The action should also explore links and synergies with the Climate-neutral and smart cities Mission, and in particular to selected Mission cities, when identifying use cases.

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