Background Since September 2020, FIWARE Foundation has been leading the successful i4Trust project around Data Spaces, which has been receiving funding by the European Commission under the Grant Agreement of 951975. Thanks to the extraordinary collaboration of partners such as iShare and FundingBox, 32 selected solutions on Data Spaces have been…

Background Since September 2020, FIWARE has been leading the successful i4Trust project around Data Spaces, which has been receiving funding by the European Commission under the Grant Agreement of 951975. Thanks to the extraordinary collaboration of partners such as iShare and FundingBox, 32 selected solutions on Data Spaces have been awarded…

Challenge & Context Each school is a complex ecosystem in and around which different services are developed in addition to the educational one: public transportation, the canteen, booking, or registration services. The canteen service chain alone involves several stakeholders: the child who eats the meal, the parent who books the meal and pays…

Challenge & Context As we all know, every Smart City has its own, unique problems. Some Smart Cities have so much tourist activity that it affects every service for visitors and locals alike. These Smart Cities, or as we call them, Smart Destinations, need to track how this tourism affects their city. What…

Challenge & Context The evolution of 3D models has been gaining high research attention in several fields, such as aerospace and manufacturing, as well as Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC). As a next logical step, the Digital Twin concept refers to developing a mirrored digital counterpart to a physical system and linking their…

Challenge & Context Until recently, the Authority for the Island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) was seriously concerned about the quality of the air the inhabitants of the island were breathing, mainly due to two factors: the growing economic activity in a predominantly rural island (with tourism as a main driver) and…

Challenge & Context Molina de Segura is the fourth largest municipality in the large metropolitan area of the autonomous community and province of Murcia and possesses the highest income per capita per inhabitant in this region due to a concentration of leading national companies. Molina de Segura is one of the industrial epicentres…

Challenge & Context Climate change is one of the main causes of increasingly extreme weather due to become more intense and frequent. While only 5% of Europeans were exposed to weather related disasters each year during 1981–2010, this number could increase dramatically by the end of this century due to climate change. According…

Challenge & Context To ease interaction with a city’s administrative services, the creation of a chatbot is an easy and popular option, with many open source platforms currently available (Rasa, built for multidisciplinary enterprise teams, for example, can be an excellent starting point). Filling the bot with the right content, however, is a…