COSS wins the ERC2018 Advanced Investigator Grant for "Using the wisdom of crowds to make cities smarter"

Cities of the future will need citizens to be more actively involved in the digital monitoring and management of traffic, resources and waste as well as urban and community services, if they want to successfully manage challenges such as climate change, large-scale migration, population growth, sustainability and resilience.

This is the premise of Dr. Dirk Helbing, a Computational Social Science professor at ETH Zurich, who will use his ERC Advanced Grant to establish whether digitally assisting citizens to self-manage smart city applications can be more effective than a centrally managed approach.
For this, it will be crucial to work out how to catalyse processes promoting collaborations between companies and citizens and elevating them to a more professional level. The project will also ask how competitive these digital societies would be when based on values such as freedom, equality and solidarity as compared to a centralized digital management. For example, could citizen participation promote a circular and sharing economy?

Project: Co-Evolving City Life (CoCi)
Researcher: Dirk Helbing
Host Institution: ETH Zurich, Switzerland
ERC Funding: € 2,499,500 for five years

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