Objectives

GuiDanCe will work towards three main objectives:

1. Strengthen the engagement of GDC signatories to create a club of cities that work together towards their GDC commitments

• Introducing a GDC implementation monitoring process that will make cities work as a group with common objectives
• Identifying, bringing forward and helping to replicate leading cities’ best examples and projects
• Updating the text of GDC to align it with today’s political context and technical realities
• Creating synergies with other initiatives and stakeholders
• Working together with other Horizon 2020 projects related to the ICT and smart cities areas

2. Improve existing tools and services and their impact to GDC signatories

• Helping signatory cities properly use the online toolkit developed in NiCE
• Carrying out training activities, tailored to the needs of cities in order to maximise their results and impact
• Working together with external experts that can offer strategic advice for the improvement of the GDC services
• Improving the operation of the GDC contact point that was introduced in NiCE

3. Promote GDC signatories’ activities in and outside the EU

• Increasing the number of signatory cities from 42 to 60
• Working for the creation of a GDC network of 15 Chinese cities in the frame of the EU-China urbanisation partnership
• Carrying out communication and dissemination activities at local, national, European and international levels
• Informing key stakeholders of the project’s outcomes, especially in the funding and ICT industry sectors