Abstract
The publication Understanding Digital and Green Municipalities and Cities is the result of the Digital Government for Green Municipalities and Cities – DiGreen project. The project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
The project has brought together experts from different universities and research institutions in a unique international consortium to address the problems of municipalities and cities. With experts from various countries and familiar with different policy frameworks and communal strategies, it has been possible to develop new perspectives on how municipalities and cities in Europe can respond to new trends and challenges and how they can adapt their policies and relations with their citizens. We do not address all the latest trends in the publication, but from the range of challenges we have chosen, particularly those that focus on digitalisation and climate change.
The publication is designed as an interdisciplinary knowledge base encompassing backgrounds, common topics and challenges relevant to communal policy, digitalisation at the level of municipalities and cities, and green transition topics.