An insightful 3rd general assembly

by Anna Beyer | Mar 22, 2024 | News

A successful 3rd general assembly meeting in Cartagena in March 2024.   From March 12th to 14th the BeOpen Consortium held its 3rd general assembly meeting after coming together in Naples and Porto last year. The event was hosted by the municipality of Cartagena,...

Fighting heat islands in the South of Spain

by Anna Beyer | Feb 28, 2024 | News

Tackling heat islands with knowledge Together with to other towns in Murcia, Torre Pacheco is working on a use case focusing on urban heat, a pressing issue all over Spain and Europe. Merging data from different sources they develop strategies to minimize the summery...

What do High Value Data sets have to do with invasive species in Vilnius ?

by Anna Beyer | Dec 28, 2023 | News

What do High Value Data sets have to do with invasive species in Vilnius ?   BeOpen is driven by the objective to work hands-on on current challenges cities encounter and finding adequate solutions, using high value datasets. One of our use cases is located in...

Light pollution and High Value Datasets

by Anna Beyer | Dec 20, 2023 | News

Energy efficiency versus light pollution – the role of high value data sets (HVD)     Light pollution has been rising with the increase of urban settlements. Artificial Light at Night-time (short ALAN) does not only influence our vision of the night-time sky but...

The Story Behind The Schwa Glyph in the BeOpen Branding

by Anna Beyer | Dec 4, 2023 | News

BeOpen Project branding for a consistent communication The schwa glyph, with its simple and unassuming upside-down lowercase “e” (ə), was introduced by a German linguist of the 19th century. It described as an unstressed or toneless neutral vowel, produced...

Be open Smart City Expo: Share your highly valuable data

by Lydia Montandon | Nov 14, 2023 | News

Getting a glimpse of BeOpen at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona Excitement has been in the air when we prepared for our presentation of BeOpen at the FIWARE booth at Smart City Expo World Congress 2023 (SCEWC23) in Barcelona at the beginning of...

Promoting BeOpen on BEYOND website

by Lydia Montandon | Oct 19, 2023 | News

BeOpen presented as relevant project for disaster management BeOpen presented as relevant project for disaster managementText: The BEYOND Centre of Excellence (Centre of Earth Observation Research & Satellite Remote Sensing) develops research and provides disaster...

BeOpen presented at the Herne Smart City Event

by Lydia Montandon | Sep 26, 2023 | News

BeOpen represented at the Smart City event in Herne September 21st and 22nd 2023 in Herne were dedicated to the topic of Smart City, or rather Smart People, as a necessary basis to get to the city level. Herne adopted this necessity towards being truly digital, as its...

Promoting BeOpen on Ayuntamiento de Cartagena website

by Lydia Montandon | Aug 9, 2023 | News

Communicating about the project in Spanish Following the first press release announcing the project launch, Ayuntamiento de Cartagena, a project partner involved in several use cases, posted information about BeOpen on its website. Details about the European Funding...

2nd Project General Assembly will take place in Porto

by Lydia Montandon | Aug 2, 2023 | News

Welcome to Porto With centuries of history and a past of resilience, Porto is commonly known as the “Cidade Invicta” (the “Unbeatable City”). Today it is a vibrant city and an aggregator of innovation and creativity. In Porto, we can look at the past and identify the...