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Are you interested in the experiences of others working in smart city projects and organizations? The Smart City Academy provides available knowledge about smart city projects and can help you with project development. This Smart City Academy page provides you with information and researches about the impact and conditions of smart city projects. Professors, teachers and students study the initiation, management, collaboration and scaling of smart city projects and would like to share these results with you. They do so by organizing events and masterclasses, by developing smart city tools and methodologies and by making research and outcomes accessible. You can find everything here. And the good news is.... You can add your knowledge too! Are you working on Smart City research? Please feel free to share your knowledge in the Academy section, under ‘Other research and theses’. The Smart City Academy is powered by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. If you have any questions, you can contact smartcityacademy@hva.nl

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Smart City 2020- Workshop

I am looking for partners to run a workshop related to "Smart City Planning", initially in the city of Lima-Peru and Mexico City. However if someone is interested in launching the workshop somewhere else I am ready for the challenge.

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We are looking for Smart City issues and research questions!

Our ambition is to do further research on Smart City projects and their ecosystem. Therefore, we are curious about your smart city issues and questions! Are you a company, foundation, government or startup with a challenge in health, mobility, energy or other smart city issues? Are you curious about the possibilities of big data, struggling to scale-up, wondering how to create effective partnerships, trying to make a business case for you smart city project?
Put your research question into the spotlight at our Smart City Academy event on the 16th of january and win a research voucher. This voucher gives you access to a researcher that will explore your issue for a week. We will try to formulate some first answers to your research question and explore further steps for research together with public or private companies.

If you're interested in pitching on this event, or want some further information, please contact smartcityacademy@hva.nl

For more information about the event, click here https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/events/elevate-smart-city-practice-ih01ygsv

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Zulfikar Dinar Wahidayat Putra, University Student , posted

looking for: Interviewee in the field of Environmental Aspect and Smart City

I am Zulfikar a master student of Urban Environmental Management in Wageningen University and Research.
Currently, I am conducting a thesis research with the title "The Interaction between Non-Government-based Smart City Projects and Government-based Environmental Management: The Case of Amsterdam". ​Basically, the research aims to investigate three elements, namely the smart city projects initiated by non-governmental parties, environmental management conducted by governmental parties, and their interaction with each other.​

Regarding that, I would like to talk to people who have knowledge about their smart city project and environmental aspects in Amsterdam. I need at least 2 persons from Amsterdam Smart City Platform, knowledge institutions, and/or companies.

The result of this research will benefit the Amsterdam Smart City platform and Amsterdam Municipality to understand about the linkage between smart city projects and environmental management of Amsterdam.

If you are the one, please let me know by contacting me via email zulfikar.dinar@gmail.com
Thank you for your help and attention.

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Nikolaos Vogiatzis, ICT administrator , posted

Call for Smart Cities Experts: Research on evaluation-prioritization of smart cities projects

The aim of our research is to record experts' opinion about the importance of each action/project that has been collected and categorised.

Please evaluate the importance of each action regarding its possible contribution to making a city smarter (or more sustainable, consuming fewer resources, with the use of ICT). You may also recommend actions, filling in the appropriate space (other actions) in each category. Please consider that you are giving your expert opinion for a medium-sized city, in a rather early-stage of ICT development.

We would be grateful if you could contribute with some of your knowledge to our research.

Link for the questionnaire for smart cities experts: https://t.co/UfJEnaVOL1

Thank you in advance for your time and help,
Nikolaos Vogiatzis (icsdm15021@aegean.gr)
Dimitrios Kolokotronis (icsdm15028@aegean.gr)

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Wanted: real assignments for student consulting agency

To prepare Business and Management students of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences for a future in Business they have the opportunity to work as a consulting agency, Futureteams, and solve real problems organisations might have. We are looking for organisations in the fields of: Health, Mobility, Tourism, Smart Cities or Financial Services.

If you have an organizational problem, Futureteams can help! They will put in effective work hours and need no training or work space. You can find further information about the project https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/projects/futureteams-can-take-on-new-assignments or here:
https://sites.google.com/enmeer.com/wervenopdrachtgevers/home (in Dutch)

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Artur Mazzo, Smart City Scholar , posted

Master Thesis - Governance Focus

Hi everyone! I am current Business Master student. I am doing my master thesis focusing the ASC as a case study. My main interest is to understand how the ASC is structured in the governance field and how the municipality is involved to create this innovative environment. The thesis is part of an University of Sao Paulo research group. @Esther Somers could you help me to get in contact with someone that would contribute to improve this research development

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Tara Vanli, PhD Candidate , posted

(MBA) Thesis research topics on smart cities

Hello everyone:
I've been researching in smart cities topic and I'm really interested in making a contribution in this field, especially on the managerial side.
but I still can't connect it directly to my thesis since it should concern business topics, I'm focusing on management/innovation/leadership
I would appreciate some suggestions about research questions concerning this topic.
tags: smart cities- MBA- leadership- business- thesis-organizations-management-innovation.

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