Smart Cities in Smart Regions Conference Proceedings
Editoija
Jalonen, Meri
LAB-ammattikorkeakoulu
2022
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-827-423-3
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-827-423-3
Tiivistelmä
The Third Smart Cities in Smart Regions conference has been a joint effort of LAB University of Applied Sciences and Avans University of Applied Sciences. The idea of organising the next conference in collaboration emerged during the second SCSR conference in 2018 in Lahti. The plan was to convene in 2020 in Breda, the Netherlands, but the covid-19 pandemic intervened. Finally, after several postponements,
the conference took place in April 2022.
Within the almost four years that passed between the two conferences, both our everyday lives and the world around us have changed abruptly. The pandemic had a direct impact on the organisation of the conference,
since changing infection rates and health security policies needed to be considered. While the war in Ukraine, which began after the call for papers had ended, was not directly reflected in the conference presentations, it
made some of the conference topics, such as security, ever more acute.
Meanwhile, the original conference topics have not lost their significance. The need to tackle climate change and other ecological crises remains urgent; the development of smart and resilient cities and regions calls for collaboration among various stakeholders. Both the keynote speeches and conference presentations at the Smart Cities in Smart Regions conference discussed novel approaches, technologies and methods to the development of sustainable products, services and infrastructures. This conference proceedings offers insights into these issues through an interesting set of academic papers and case studies.
the conference took place in April 2022.
Within the almost four years that passed between the two conferences, both our everyday lives and the world around us have changed abruptly. The pandemic had a direct impact on the organisation of the conference,
since changing infection rates and health security policies needed to be considered. While the war in Ukraine, which began after the call for papers had ended, was not directly reflected in the conference presentations, it
made some of the conference topics, such as security, ever more acute.
Meanwhile, the original conference topics have not lost their significance. The need to tackle climate change and other ecological crises remains urgent; the development of smart and resilient cities and regions calls for collaboration among various stakeholders. Both the keynote speeches and conference presentations at the Smart Cities in Smart Regions conference discussed novel approaches, technologies and methods to the development of sustainable products, services and infrastructures. This conference proceedings offers insights into these issues through an interesting set of academic papers and case studies.