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Funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for Economics and Climate Action (BMKW), the Morgenstadt Global Smart Cities Initiative (MGI) supports model cities in India, Mexico and Peru in the development and implementation of sustainable transformation processes.

Kochi, India

The financial, commercial and industrial capital is located in the Ernakulam District of the State of Kerala in Southwest India.

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Saltillo, Mexico

The capital of the state of Coahuila de Zaragoza is located in the Northeastern part of Mexico.

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Piura, Peru

The capital of the Piura region is located in the district of the same name in Northwest Peru.

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The Morgenstadt Global Smart Cities Initiative Says Goodbye

The Morgenstadt Global Smart Cities Initiative (MGI) has been officially concluded. The three pilot projects are fully implemented and in use in Piura, Kochi and Saltillo. For the occasion, the MGI consortium looks back at four years of transforming cities for the future.

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2019
02 / City Lab
The City Lab methodology allows to create a detailed sustainability profile of each Pilot City in close collaboration with local stakeholders. It provides understanding on the main challenges of the cities and helps them to define a roadmap with innovative project ideas to make the Pilot City more sustainable and resilient to climate change.
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03 / City Profiles
Detailed sustainability profiles developed in the City Labs for each pilot city.
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The picture shows the graph of the strategy roadmap for Piura with secotors, action fileds, and their connections with arrows.
04 / Strategy Roadmap
A portfolio of projects that address the identified challenges, building on the available opportunities in the city. The goal is to boost sustainable development in different sectors on the medium and long-term.
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four person look at abuilding in a kochi neigborhood and take photos.
05 / Study Visits
Members of the MGI team visit the pilot cities during the pilot project design phase to discuss matters with the local team, implementation partners, stakeholders, and the local communities.
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2023
01 / Kick-off Event
On the 18th of November 2019 the official Kick-Off Event with representatives of the three pilot cities, partners from the Morgenstadt Network and external experts as well as experts from the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft took place in Barcelona.
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2020
2021
2022
06 / Implementation
For each pilot city, one pilot project of the roadmap is selected for the implementation and financed by MGI resources.
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07 / Final Conference

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MGI Says Goodbye

The Morgenstadt Global Smart Cities Initiative (MGI) has been officially concluded. For the occasion, the MGI consortium looks back at four years of transforming cities for the future.

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November 9, 2023

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