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• EFEDERS Digital Education Platform
  The Municipality offers a digital education platform called EFEDERS. Login to EFEDERS digital education platform, an ambitious digital education project of Efeler, is provided with free access codes distributed in the Municipality's Cultural Houses, National Aydın Bank Cultural Center, Youth Street Schools District and Uğur Mumcu Park. Efeler Municipality aims to create a continuity in education and a conscious society by providing various ways to increase knowledge and access to education and information for students and parents living in Efeler district. This will facilitate to overcome the education crisis experienced during the pandemic. The EFEDERS project offers free video 55 lectures, online practice exams and online books to approximately 52,000 students in Efeler that are well-suited for kindergarten, primary, secondary, high school and university preparation. This project, carried out to ensure continuity in education, had and has an impact on children and youth. In this process, children who need to be supported the most are supported both with face-to-face education at EFESEM and with distance education with the digital education platform EFEDERSTV. This project helped to meet the learning needs that arise with the ever-evolving technology. Realizing educational tourism in the digital environment helps to prevent this problem has also been a solution to the global problems experienced in recent years. The EFEDERS project was carried out by Efeler Municipality to create equal opportunities in educational activities and to eliminate the deficiencies in education. Find out more at : https://www.efeler.bel.tr/guncel/haberler/efesem-de-yeni-egitim-yili-basladi  https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/dijital-egitim-platformu-efederstv-yarin-kamuoyuna-tanitilacak-1769432
• Internet Week Denmark
  Internet Week Denmark is a festival taking place in and around Aarhus. The festival celebrates the success and the digital impact on innovation, business, and our everyday lives. The backbone of Internet Week Denmark is a weeklong festival based on crowdsourced events. This means that companies, educations institutions, networks and individuals contribute by hosting events during the festival. It is a great week of knowledge sharing, learning, social meetings, and networking. It brings attention to the impacts of the internet economy on growth and job creation as well as to the attraction and retention of talent and entrepreneurship. It is a week of talks, delates, workshops and hackathons. However, Internet Week Denmark is also a public festival for citizens and students. The festival is open to all, just like the internet is an open platform for all. Find out more at: https://iwdk.dk
• ‘Virtual Clerk’ as an Artificial Intelligence Tool
  In 2015, Gdynia has become the first Polish city to introduce solutions enabling convenient and friendly contact with customers via Virtual Clerk. It is fully designed and implemented by the staff of the Gdynia City Hall and works on the basis of an artificial intelligence mechanism that understands the question and immediately finds an answer or forwards it to the place where the answer is to be found. The Virtual Clerk is well adapted to the needs of the residents and the city by offering residents multi-channel communication and by including everyone. The accessibility also encourages people with restrictions to use this intelligent communication tool. Find out more at: https://innovationinpolitics.eu/showroom/project/residents-account-gdynia-e-services-centre/ https://www.chatbots.org/conversational_agent/wirtualny_urzednik/   54
• Zagreb Smart City Hub
  The City of Zagreb has always kept in step with the times and with technology, using it to provide simple, clear and transparent access to information about its activities. The platform “Zagreb Smart City Hub” was created to help citizens find relevant information on “smart” projects and communicate on key decisions, and to involve them in strategic decision- making. The ultimate objective is to offer citizens, companies and institutions greater transparency and efficiency. The platform can be publicly accessed on the City of Zagreb’s official website. Find out more at: https://www.zagreb.hr/pametniji-i-transparentniji-zagreb-predstavljena-n/176924
• Smart Kalea Platform, data for city management
  Different sensors were installed in the city by the San Sebastián administration. Their aim is to monitor various relevant parameters for the city management. The data collected is then manage by The Smart Kalea comprehensive platform, that monitors mobility, with counting sensors that are installed at different points in the city, but also traffic management with traffic control and monitoring cameras, that are deployed both at the entrances and in the city centre. Parking and underground park management are also concerned with sensors that measure mobility and parking availability, giving information on free parking lots in the municipal Donostia Transport App. Finally, public transports are also equipped with sensors and the vehicles have an Operation Assistance System to optimize fleet management. Find out more at: https://www.smartkalea.eus/es 51
• Making suggestions to visitors via “TPnP Tomi Go Matosinhos” App
  Locals as well as visitors have the chance to download the TPnP Tomi Go Matosinhos application on smartphones or tablets. The application provides necessary information to the visitor of the municipality including a regional map and organized categories. The categories suggest different places to the visitors with regards to food spots, accommodations, activities, or events. All functions of the TPnP TOMI Go Matosinhos application can be used online and offline so that visitors can enjoy the spectacles and wonders of the region without worries. Find out more at: https://www.matosinhoswbf.pt/pages/356 49
• “Gdynia City Guide” Website and App as a comprehensive guide
  The official tourist mobile application, a guide to Gdynia, is an application where users will find information about tourist attractions, the gastronomic and accommodation offer, sports and recreation sites, places for entertainment and shopping. It also contains a calendar that informs about events. In addition, hiking and cycling tours are offered along the most interesting, themed routes. The advantage of the application: It works both online and offline. The intuitive interface allows to quickly find interesting information, and the GPS location will direct locals and visitors to selected sites and events. 48 Find out more at: https://www.inyourpocket.com/gdynia
• Myth of Aphrodite App & AR Experience
  This Augmented Reality (AR) app was a pilot action by the city of Pafos that has now been rolled out into a complete experience of the myth of Aphrodite. Users can download the app for free and enjoy, explore, and get informed about the expansive myth of Aphrodite. The app contains useful information and helps guide users through the geography of the myth as well as providing some AR opportunities at 4 locations along the route. Find out more at: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aphrodites-birthplace/id1489046856
• Augmented Reality Routes
  Gijón offers three augmented reality tours, with the aim of bringing visitors closer to the city’s history, its intangible heritage, its important historical events, and its residents. Visitors can then have more experiential tours with the following apps: The Cimavilla AR Tour, the Between Centuries AR Tour and Botanical Secret. A fourth app is also available, the Roman Gijón AR Tour, which promote the Gijón Romano product, using augmented reality in astronomic merchandising. 46 Find out more at: www.visitagijon.com
• Smart App for infos to the Historical Unesco Park
  The Archaeological Park of Kato Pafos is one of the most important archaeological sites in Cyprus and has been included in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1980. To ensure that residents and visitors alike have a complete and digital experience while visiting a smart app has been created. The app allows users to gain access to useful content and information about the various monuments around the park, an audio guide in several languages, multiple videos, and tours to explore as well as a rich photo gallery to take with you. Find out more at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unesco.pafos&hl=en&gl=US 45
• DETECt Aarhus App
  The DETECt Aarhus web – app is a locative screen experience including three themed walking tours to discover Aarhus. By unlocking trailers, interviews with authors and ‘behind the scenes footage,’ the app takes visitors behind the scenes of popular films and TV series, such as the Danish crime drama Dicte. The DETECt app is mediated through the mobile phone on location. Visitors can download the app on WIFI or use it via mobile data. This feature has been implemented to cater also for guests from outside the EU, who cannot enjoy free data roaming.  One of the tours introduces the city’s hidden silent film history, when Aarhus 110 years ago, was a centre for silent film production in Europe and home to silent films pioneers such as the film producer Thomas S. Hermansen and his film factory.  44 Find out more at: https://www.visitaarhus.com/detect-aarhus
• Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP)
  The Municipality of the City of Szeged decided to prepare the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) to demonstrate its commitment to sustainability. With the SUMP, it wants to lay the foundation for the transport development goals and measures for the period 2017-2030. The plan will help Szeged to synthesize existing urban and transport development plans and aims to provide sustainable 43 and integrated solutions to urban transport problems. This will eventually contribute to climate protection and energy efficiency objectives. Through the Sustainable Mobility Plan, the development of cycling will be prioritized in the city and the municipality has already taken several positive measures for cycling paths. The aim is to further increase the proportion of road sections with 40% of cycling facilities, and the public bicycle system will be operational from 2013. As a result, the share of cycling has doubled in the last decade and is expected to continue to grow until 2030. The SUMP also aims to improve conditions for pedestrian transport, to decongest the inner city, to create an intermodal hub between bus and rail, to develop complex transport in neighborhoods, to use intelligent transport systems and to influence the choices of road users. Find out more at : https://sump-central.eu/2020/11/07/sustainable-urban-mobility-plan-of-szeged/ https://www.eltis.org/it/node/49075
• “Like Bike” Friendly City
  In 2021, Kaunas announced its aim of becoming the first 100% bike friendly city in the Baltics. Titled the “Like Bike” initiative and revolution, this project is aimed at renovating bike paths, creating bike-friendly pavements and paths, one thousand new bike ranks around the city, lower car speed limits in the city center and various other features and innovations that will enable Kaunas to become what it has set out to be: the first 100% bike friendly city in the Baltics. Beyond this infrastructural and policy orientated drive, the city municipality is coordinating with local cycle organizations and local 41 communities to enable a knowledge sharing and the direct inclusion of those that will participate and benefit from these measures. This in turn has greatly aided the municipality in gaining useful data and metrics on the cycling tendencies and habits of the community which has helped shape the future of this bike-friendly city. Find out more at: https://visit.kaunas.lt/en/kaunastic/kaunas-on-a-bike-routes-tips-and-more/
• Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan
  Cork has implemented the Cork City Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) to reduce the City’s carbon footprint and invest in smart technologies. The plan includes the planting of trees (1,200 in 2021 and 1,500 in 2022) as well as the ‘City Trees Project’, launched in 2021. This included an investment of €350,000 for the installation of five robotic trees in the city that filter pollutants generated by traffic. Each unit can sift an amount of air equivalent to that needed by up to 7,000 people every hour. These developments are complemented by additional actions such as the pedestrianization of 17 city streets, the development of outdoor dining terraces in the city centre, and parklets (green seating spaces) in the place of parking bays, to create a welcoming and atmospheric city centre vibe, while striving to promote a low carbon society through traffic reduction. Find out more at: https://www.corkcity.ie/en/council-services/services/environment/climate-change/cork-city-council-secap-sustainable-energy-and-climate-action-plan-.html 
• Park of Music and Singing Trees
  In Aalborg, several artists, musicians, and singer-songwriters have left their mark on the Park of Music by planting a tree to commemorate their visit to the city. Some of the trees are accompanied by the artists' own music and can be activated by the park's visitors by pressing a button at the foot of the tree. Since then, many more trees and artists have joined and today, more than 80 great artists have left their mark on the park with oaks and wild cherry trees. Find out more at: https://www.enjoynordjylland.com/north-jutland/plan-your-trip/park-music-gdk596452
• The Zero Plastik Programme, to improve waste management
  In collaboration with the City Council’s Environment Department, San Sebastián Turismo launched in 2021 the Zero Plastik Programme, with the aim of improving waste management in tourist accommodations. The latter, who are participating in the project, are committed to correctly classify waste they generate, offer customers tap water to avoid waste from plastic bottles and reduce waste from other plastic containers, mainly those related to amenities. Furthermore, guesthouses and apartments that request the card to open the public organic 31 waste container will receive stickers for waste containers at home, plus an adhesive poster with guidelines for correct waste assortment. Find out more at: https://www.donostia.eus/ataria/es/web/ingurumena/residuos/actividades-economicas/hoteles-zero-plastic
• Szeged Sustainable Energy and Climate Plan
  Szeged has adopted a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) that sets an emission reduction target of 40% by 2030 – compared to the 2008 base year. This means that Szeged's annual CO2 emissions will not exceed 369 000 tons by 2030. Szeged is in a fortunate position: As its territory is rich in 30 renewable energy sources, it will support the city in achieving its sustainability goals. The number of annual hours of sunshine and the radiation intensity make Szeged the most favourable region in Hungary in terms of solar energy. The geothermal potential of the region is excellent, too: A significant amount of geothermal heat can be extracted and can play a major role in the district heating supply of the city. Biomass and wind energy are also economically viable sources of renewable energy that could help the city to expand its renewable energy potential. Find out more at : https://energiaklub.hu/en/project/sustainable-energy-and-climate-action-plan-for-szeged-city-4660
• Plan8
  The product of the combined collaboration of 117 experts and 200 stakeholders in the city’s tourism industry, Seville’s Plan8 is an ambitious plan to reactivate the tourism industry following the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic and reignite the creation of employment and taking on the challenges following the pandemic. As a result, Plan8 was conceived which is based on around 8 main axes that each demonstrate a different line of work and set of tools for moving the municipal tourism industry forward. Tourism in Seville is taking a proactive role and focused its efforts by engaging with stakeholders and experts to bring a cohesive and innovative strategy for change. Find out more at: https://plan8sevilla.org
• Development of Sustainability Strategy
  Visit Cork has developed the ‘Visit Cork Sustainability Strategy 2020-2023’ and the corresponding ‘Sustainability Policy’ which serve to benchmark the organisation’s goals and activities against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The strategy is reviewed annually and embodies a vision and ambition for the region’s tourism sector to invest in more sustainable practices. One of the priorities of the plan is to ensure that all Cork Convention Bureau (CCB) member businesses have a formal written sustainability policy and third-party sustainability certification. Visit 29 Cork also launched the inaugural ‘Green Award’ in 2020 to celebrate and acknowledge the industry’s commitment to improving sustainability.   Find out more at: https://www.corkconventionbureau.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Visit-Cork-Sustainability-Strategy-2020-2023-4.pdf   https://www.corkconventionbureau.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Visit-Cork-Sustainability-Policy.pdf
• Euskadi Tourism Code of Ethics
  Basquetour, the Basque Tourism Agency, launched in 2020 a pilot experience for the implementation of the Euskadi Tourism Code of Ethics in tourism companies. It contains different information for responsible tourism, following eight main axes, that are: the contribution to understanding and respect for tourists; equality, inclusion, and tolerance of diversity; sustainability; promotion of local tradition and culture; preservation of local cultural heritage; excellence and professionalism; respect for the rights of all people; and appropriate treatment of workers and companies in the sector. Find out more at: https://basquetour.eus/codigo-etico-turismo-euskadi.htm
• Culture and Creativity Strategy
  City Council has developed the ‘Culture and Creativity Strategy 2018–2022’ since culture and heritage are intrinsically linked to the protection and promotion of the city’s biodiversity. Especially the biodiversity must be safeguarded as it is considered an integral part of the natural, built, cultural and archaeological heritage. Cork was known as the Venice of the North in the 18th Century and the city’s maritime heritage continues to be a defining feature of the city. In June 2022, over 50 events were planned in 15 stunning locations throughout the City and Harbour as part of the Cork Harbour Festival which celebrates Cork’s connection with the water, its river and harbour.  Find out more at: https://www.corkcity.ie/en/council-services/news-room/press-releases/cork-city-council-launches-culture-and-creativity-strategies-2018-2022.html
• Culrutas, twelve perspectives to discover the city
  Culrutas is a set of twelve different routes through Gijón, with diverse visit perspectives such as film, literature, art, history, or feminism, but with one common thing that is the historical and cultural heritage of the city of Jovellanos. It aims to satisfy a broad spectrum of people and offers them an opportunity to discover the secrets of the city. The itineraries can be downloaded on the City Council Website, or a copy can be requested at tourist offices. Each document contains a QR code that links to the municipal website, for those who would like more information. Three version are available: Spanish, Spanish/English, and Spanish/French. Find out more at: https://www.gijon.es/es/publicaciones/culrutas-rutas-culturales-por-gijonxixon
• Local Communities Showcasing Art Together
  The Yard Gallery of Kaunas is a fascinating and innovative event that was created from scratch. The festival space reuses derelict and neglected inner courtyard space in the city center by transforming the yard into an open air gallery. Moreover, the walls of the gallery are painted with the portraits of the old residents of the now neglected space, providing a historic link to the culture and the roots of the community. Kaunas is showing that urban space, even when it is not being used can provide a use for the tourism of the city. Creative cultural innovations provide an alternative use of space and enable derelict urban space to be given new life. 67 Find out more at: https://visit.kaunas.lt/en/see-and-do/sights/museums-and-galleries/gallery/yard-gallery/
• Public Light Weeks
  As part of a local tradition, the “Essen Light Weeks” have been a recurring theme for the city since the late 1920s. Using light art which illuminates the city centre with light motifs every year from November to January, the festival welcomes around 66 400 000 visitors each year and has become the second largest light art festival in Germany. Each year, around twenty international artists present sculptures, installations and 3D video mappings projected onto historical buildings, thus demonstrating the city’s rich heritage.   Find out more at: https://www.visitessen.de/essentourismus_tourismusinformation/sehenswuerdigkeiten_1/sehenswuerdigkeit_178813.en.jsp
• Street Art Walking Tour
  In the last few years, the city has been brought to life with vivid street art and murals, regenerating many old walls, industrial fixtures and streets that have lacked character. The Cork City Street Art walking tour offered to domestic and foreign visitors is available as an interactive map through the Cork City Council website. This tour showcases a selection of the wonderful street art in Cork city centre, focusing on the electrical-box art which was created by volunteers from the People’s Republic of Cork (PROC) and Mad About Cork. Many art works depict messages of welcome to visitors from different countries in their own languages.  Find out more at: https://www.corkcity.ie/en/things-to-do/attractions/ardu-murals/   http://arducork.ie