European ARTIZEN Initiative (EAI) - From Smart City to Smart Citizens approach

In the context of growing urbanization, European cities have to face an acceleration of urban, social, cultural and economic challenges and fragmentation, reinforced by the economic crisis. More than 70% of European citizens live today in cities, and this share is still growing: prospective studies value that in 2025 more than 2/3 of the world population will live in cities. Mutations are crystalized in European urban territories, representing particularly fertile experimentations fields for new proposals.