Locality is an SME founded in 2019, which explicitly focuses on research, innovation management and capacity building for smart, climate-neutral and sustainable cities. Locality’s mission is to accelerate the transition to climate-neutral, sustainable and smart cities by brokerage and better usage of researchers’ and practitioners’ knowledge on smart and sustainable solutions, and by better public-private collaboration across different domains and between different stakeholders.
Locality’s main expertise is in the fields of urban development and its sustainability impact, politically functioning and operating of cities, decarbonization pathways for cities and energy systems, smart cities, in particular the integrated development of strategies and portfolios of projects, and lastly replication, upscaling and market development of smart, energy efficient solutions. Important competences of Locality are the supporting evidence-based policy and decision making, setting up learning environments receptive to innovation, stakeholder engagement at scale levels ranging from cities to EU, promotion of innovative initiatives, compilation of knowledge and learning outcomes for the development of guidance materials, capacity building and organising training.
Current business activities of Locality entail the support of learning communities in the fields of smart cities, in-depth analysis of the barriers to and opportunities for upscaling and replication of smart and cleantech solutions in cities, and research on decarbonisation pathways for cities.
Founder of Locality.
Multidisciplinary expert in architecture, urbanism, technology and governance.
Locality regularly works with a number of partners.
