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An American website to test start-up ideas online

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by Elsa Sidawy | 01.17.11

Are you looking for sensible advice from experts and users for your start-up project? StartUpLift offers start-up companies to display their development ideas and get some sensible feedback.

Paris City Council Innovation Grand Prizes: French innovators awarded for their creativity

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by Elsa Sidawy | 12.16.10

The Paris City Council Innovation Grand Prizes were presented Monday 13th December, at the Paris Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Science and Industry City) in five different categories: Design, Innovative Services, Health/Biotech, Digital Technology, Eco-innovation. The growing success of these Grand Prizes, organised by the Paris Region Innovation and Paris Development Laboratory, is the most obvious sign of the success of Paris’s policy in favour of innovation.

Education for Sustainable Development from the Swiss point of view

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by Bernard Gasser | 12.01.10

Sustainable development is included in various ways in the subjects that are already taught to pupils, and at various levels depending on countries. In Switzerland, various resources have been made available to teachers to help them, through very concrete situations, take into account this new notion. Here is a presentation of a few projects that have been set up in Fribourg secondary schools, in Switzerland.

Cities at the heart of the exchanges between China and France

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by Elsa Sidawy | 11.02.10

The first Franco-Chinese forum for higher education has born fruit. Indeed, a draft agreement has just been signed between the Technology Universities’ network and the Shanghai University, planning the creation of the first Franco-Chinese laboratory for research on the subject of cities at the heart of the Shanghai Sino-European Technology University.

The Innovact Campus awards

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by Elsa Sidawy | 10.27.10

The 9th edition of the Innovact Campus Awards will take place on the 29th and 30th March in Reims. They are meant to reward innovative projects of young owner-managers or students in various fields.

Phones as public consultation tools

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by Elsa Sidawy | 10.24.10

The Dring 13 website has been developed by the Concert Urbain association in 2008, in order to open discussions and encourage exchanges between the inhabitants of the Olympiades district. The process is extremely simple and perfectly controllable by the generation of those who were almost born with a telephone in their hands.

1500 students experiment with Tiki’Surf C@mpus in Rennes

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by Nicolas Bellégo | 10.22.10

Tiki’labs has launched a version of the “special campus” Tiki’Surf, its mobile touchscreen navigation service. A first experiment is underway in Rennes, in collaboration with the European University of Brittany and l’INSA. The goal: to facilitate everyday life on campus by making mobile access to the various services available online simpler and more visible.

Cities are slow to adopt e-petitions

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by Elsa Sidawy | 09.16.10

Politicians are facing an increasing lack of commitment on the part of citizens. Could there be a solution to encourage them to get involved in their local community’s life in information and communication technologies? Among the various tools of e-democracy, the e-petition is now becoming an alternative means for citizens to participate in debates and public decisions. It can help restore the confidence they have in their politicians but still remains underexploited by city councils.

Chicago’s Book Bike gives wings to literature

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by Elsa Sidawy | 08.21.10

The mobile library was born thanks to the initiative of a passionate lover of literature. Gabriel Levinson is not quite an angel, but he’s considered in Chicago to be a sort of messiah, who guarantees, in part, the sustainability of neighborhood bookshops with his cheery Bike Book.

New Yorkers can measure their water consumption

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by Antoine Maudinet | 07.20.10

Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of the American megalopolis, launched this past March a system for monitoring water usage in order to control its consumption. Presently, more than 380,000 Queens inhabitants have access to it through the Internet. Though this program is expensive, and part of city water conservation projects, it is nevertheless profitable on the [...]

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The Rise and Success of QR Codes in London

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Rotterdam’s Crowd-Funded Pedestrian Bridge

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Rennes wants to get its inhabitants involved in social issues

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Paris City Council Innovation Grand Prizes: French innovators awarded for their creativity

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Are cities saving bees?

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An experimental store for the visually impaired

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“Wild plants from my street”: the urban wild plant observatory

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A bicycle pump for public space

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Smart street furniture in Paris: the winners of the call for projects are finally unveiled

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Cultural short breaks on board a 2CV soon in your city?

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Virtual high angle shot in the city of Masdar, the future eco-city of Abu Dhabi

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Greater Geneva: an economic and social project at the heart of innovation

Urbanism | 12.16.11

The Greater Geneva project represents an economic and social challenge for that area spanning France and Switzerland. The aim is to set in motion again a process that will stimulate job creation in the French part and strengthen residential services in the Swiss part. Innovative activities should find their place in that territory.

Jean Haëntjens | Urbatopie

Innovation lies also in the strategy

Social | 09.08.11

Is the proliferation of urban innovations counter-productive? While some cities are experimenting with abandon and with no real apparent logic, others have adopted a long-term strategy to combine innovations to serve a smarter, more sustainable city. Jean Haëntjens returns to this forum to talk about how important it is for cities to approach innovation with consistency and control.

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London’s transport system is transformed into a massive playground

And what happens when a public transport network becomes the scene of gigantic team games? Inspired by the principle of Fun Theory, which suggests that environmentally responsible behavior can be encouraged through attractive infrastructure, Chromaroma invites London Underground users to participate in an eco-citizen turf war.

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Pop-Up City , the blog of Jeroen Beekmans

Rotterdam’s Crowd-Funded Pedestrian Bridge

Urbanism | 01.05.12

The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and Rotterdam-based architecture firm ZUS have launched the project I Make Rotterdam, a spectacular temporary pedestrian bridge between the city’s Central and the North districts that will be financed through crowd-funding.

Quinte & Sens , the blog of Olivier Genevois

In Caracas, mimes ease traffic tension

Education | 11.07.11

Venezuela’s capital Caracas plans to manage its traffic flow in an unusual fashion. In addition to traffic police, 120 mimes dressed up as clowns were sent into the city’s streets. Their role? Curb the risky behavior of pedestrians and drivers, not by force or repression, but through silence.

Agenda Innov'in The City

May 9 to 11
Energy Cities annual meeting, Guimarães, Portugal.

May 12
International Workshop on Open Data, Nantes, France.

May 12
Stockholm Summit on Service Innovation in Cities, Stockholm, Suède.

Innovative city zoom

Toulouse has tackled issues ranging from urban lighting to public cleanliness with experimental innovation often on a shoestring budget, but the results continue to inspire many other cities in France and worldwide. A portrait of a city embracing urban innovation, helped along by the enthusiastic investigator Alexander Marciel, follows.