Munich, Germany - On September 8, 2020, the German Federal Minister of the Interior, Building and Community, Horst Seehofer, announced the 32 projects that will receive funding in the second round of the “Smart Cities Model Projects”. The projects selected this year will be funded with over 350 million euros. 

With the Smart Cities Model Projects, the Federal Government is helping municipalities and/or cities to strategically shape digitization in support of integrated sustainable urban development. The aim of the funding program is to develop and test cross-sectoral digital strategies for future urban life.

A huge part of the project is knowledge transfer to benefit all municipalities in Germany. Therefore, the selected projects are obliged to participate in organized knowledge-sharing events as well as make sponsored software solutions available to other municipalities as open source or free software. 86 cities, districts and municipalities as well as intermunicipal cooperations from all over Germany applied for the tender by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. A new funding round was announced for next year already.

Cleverciti would like to congratulate all winning projects of 2020 (in alphabetical order)*:

1. Bamberg

2. Berlin

3. Darmstadt

4. Freiburg i. Breisgau

5. Gelsenkirchen

6. Gemeinde Barleben

7. Gemeinde Eichenzell

8. Gütersloh

9. Hagenow

10. Iserlohn

11. Jena

12. Kassel

13. Kirchheim b. München

14. Köln

15. Lohmar

16. Lübeck

17. Mannheim

18. Mönchengladbach

19. Paderborn

20. Rostock

As well as the following intermunicipal cooperations and districts:

1. Aalen & Heidenheim

2. Bad Belzig & Gemeinde Wiesenburg/Mark

3. Dortmund & Schwerte

4. Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

5. Gemeinde Fuchstal with Gemeinden Apfeldorn and Unterdießen

6. Hamburg in collaboration with Leipzig & München

7. Landkreis Hof

8. Kiel with local communities from the regions Rendsburg-Eckernförde & Plön

9. Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz

10. Landkreis St. Wendel

11. Lemgo & Gemeinde Kalletal

12. Osnabrück with Gemeinden Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Bissendorf & Samtgemeinden Fürstenau, Artland and Neuenkirchen

For more information about the individual projects follow the links mentioned above in the list (when available). More information about the Smart Cities Model Projects program in general can be found on: www.bmi.bund.de/smart-cities or on www.smart-city-dialog.de. 

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