Partnerschaft anders gedacht und anders gemacht

In order to reach Smart City environmental and the Paris climate goals it is important to have also societal issues such as integration of people with “migration background” from the first, second or third generation in mind. In general terms, this is also true when a positive societal dynamics through a high level of participation is targeted. For Smarter Together and especially in Vienna, societal integration represents indeed a continuous policy element without being necessarily always addressed directly, often rather indirectly: By fact, the preservation of a lively environment maters to everybody, no matter how long one is here. And everybody’s future generations will be affected by climate change. Everybody has to act now!

Therefore, within Smarter Together, numerous activities target all inhabitants of the project area with all kinds of backgrounds. The mobile urban living lab called “SIMmobile” is literally a key “vehicle” of communication and integration. The activities of the SIMmobile foster the general understanding of interdependence and partnership between governance, economy and citizen. A key shared and promoted value is also the importance given to participation and active contribution of every single citizen, no matter what background he or she has.

The upcoming focused promotion of distance heating connection will for instance target all inhabitants of the area: With the support of the EU and governance, all inhabitants of the target area will be enabled to make their personal contribution to the climate goals. This is an example of active societal partnership.

In this perspective, Smarter Together was promoted in a newspaper targeting specifically and in this case the Viennese community with its roots in former Yugoslavia and which is published in BCS – in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian language.

Find the link to the article in BCS here and in German here.