This 15th September 2021, the Smart City Institute is releasing its 5th volume of the Practical Guide dedicated to the monitoring and evaluation of Smart City initiatives. In this context, our researcher Audrey Lebas will present you the result of a 9 months reflection.

The first part of the workshop will consist of an introduction of the main theoretical points of the Guide as well as a presentation of the key steps in the definition of a monitoring and evaluation methodology within your territory (e.g. definition of indicators, implementation of a data collection method).

During the second part of the workshop, Audrey will moderate an exchange between different intermunicipal authorities on the ground reality of monitoring and evaluation of Smart City projects. This workshop is particularly aimed at local public authorities but it is also open to all territorial actors (research community, private sector, etc.)

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Animated by Audrey Lebas, Researcher at the Smart City Institute Audrey has been working as a researcher at the Smart City Institute since February 2019. She works simultaneously on 2 research themes: monitoring and evaluation of Smart City initiatives and governance of Smart Mobility. It is in this context that she has produced the last two Smart City Practical Guides, dedicated to these topics. Audrey has previously worked in the environmental voluntary sector and the world of European policy consultancy. She studied at Maastricht University where she obtained an MA in European Public Affairs and a BA in European Studies.

With the participation of 

Marine Keresztes, Smart Territory Development and Foresight Project Manager, IGRETEC

Blanche Flémal, Smart City Project Manager, InBW

Mariléna Cassotti, Deputy Director STUDIES - ICT, SPI

Frédéric Lenoir, Coordinator of the "Mobility in Liège Metropole" & "Mind Your Territory" projects, SPI

[ THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL ] After a review of the essential elements of the first Smart City Practical Guide published by the Smart City Institute in 2017, Nathalie Crutzen will propose, in small groups, to identify the necessary prerequisites and the role of stakeholders when initiating a sustainable and smart transition approach.

DISCOVER THE PRACTICAL GUIDE 1 DEDICATED TO THE SMART CITY STRATEGY 

Animated by Prof. Nathalie Crutzen, Academic Director of the Smart City Institute Nathalie Crutzen has a doctorate in economics and management and is Professor of Strategy, Performance Management and Sustainability at HEC Liège, and founder of the Smart City Institute. She has developed her expertise in the following fields: strategic management, management control, innovation, sustainability and Smart Cities.   Discover her profile in video

[ THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL ] Faced with the participation imperative, many Walloon cities and municipalities are redoubling their efforts to get in touch with their citizens, sometimes with difficulty. Many questions arise: how to encourage participation? With what objective? Who should be approached, when, via what medium, and how often?

In an hour and a half, this workshop will demystify citizen participation and the utopia of the "Super Citizen". In practice, the intervention : 

1. address the main points of attention to be identified before implementing a participatory approach;
2. identify 4 tools for planning, selecting profiles, prioritising issues and evaluating the impact of citizen participation;
3. allow you to create, by yourself, a first profile of citizen Ambassador and citizen Absentee, both useful before any invitation to participate.

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Animated by Catherine Elsen, Professor in the Faculty of Applied Sciences, ULiège, Inter'Act team Catherine Elsen, an architectural engineer and doctor in engineering sciences, is a professor at the University of Liège, Faculty of Applied Sciences (Inter'Act team). She teaches architectural composition and user-centred approaches to engineers. Her research activities are mainly focused on design processes (in architecture, engineering, urban planning, ...), and more specifically on the impact of design tools, methods and technologies on cognitive processes such as the integration of user needs, creativity, co-design or participative mechanisms.   A propos d'INTER'ACT The INTER'ACT research laboratory (Department of Urban & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Liège) is enriched by multidisciplinary profiles (in architectural engineering, architecture, design and interior architecture) and aims at developing, through fundamental and applied research, user-centred theoretical models, methods and tools conducive to participation and innovation in design. More specifically, the team, through its research projects and operational fields, tends to examine and then renew the interactions that take place during a design project between "designers" and "non-designers". INTER'ACT works to reinvent the vectors of intentionality of the former while offering the latter a voice and a real role within a participatory process, for the benefit of an innovation anchored in a territory.

With our guests from Walloon local and regional administrations, we will discuss the transition of administrations to a data-driven world. We will see how the publicity of territorial data will allow us to offer services centred on the needs of citizens, and not only on those of the administration.

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With the participation of

David Wattecamps, CIO au SPW

Dimitri Boucqueau, Data Manager, CSI, Deputy DPO - Digital Projects Unit, City & CPAS of La Louvière