Fraunhofer IAO | Mobility, Urban Systems Engineering and Innovation Systems
Urban Governance Innovation
Our Vision
The future proof city!
Urban development in the 21st century
Never has urban development been as complex as today. Numerous internal and external factors need to be aligned to develop livable, resilient, sustainable and inclusive cities:
Global trends like climate change, migration or shifts in demography increasingly need a local response.
The great digital transformation changes organizations, economies and personal lives. Cities need to actively shape it.
Technological innovations help us create smarter cities – but the pace of innovation is incompatible with traditional urban development cycles.
The Vision: Future-Proof Cities
Our Vision at UGI is to shape future-proof cities. We perceive cities as complex adaptive systems and work between cities, businesses and research to define local pathways of innovation and urban development. By linking technological innovation, urban development and social and ecological premises for sustainable and inclusive cities, UGI helps create cities that are ready for the future!
The DNA
Driving sustainable innovation to shape the city of the future!
What?
Our Mission – Thought Leadership for the sustainable, resilient, and livable city of the future
How?
We support cities to become innovation leaders through new governance approaches and by overcoming urban challenges together with science and industry.
We enable companies to calibrate their products and services with urban needs and to implement new system solutions in cooperation with cities.
We understand the deeper implications of the great digital transformation and strive for a new model of collaboration between digital innovators and guardians of the public good.
