The Campolide 2021 Challenge was launched by the borough of Campolide (Junta de Freguesia de Campolide – JFC) as the final project for the Smart and Sustainable Cities undergraduate course during the 2021 spring semester of NOVA IMS. It challenged the students to design data-driven solutions to a real urban scenario, with access to key stakeholders with the community, data provided by the local governing body, and open data regarding the city of Lisbon. Students were tasked not only with the application of smart concepts but to design interventions that were immediately implementable within the available resources of JFC, with a high potential impact on the community. 10 groups of students pitched their final projects to the President and Innovation Department of Junta de Freguesia of Campolide, the most promising of which was recognized and considered for further development and implementation.

See the results here.

This type of project is an excellent opportunity for the students at NOVA IMS to gain actual and practical experience in applying data science directly to their community. They can collaborate directly with the instructors on complex intervention design, draw on the resources of the NOVA Cidade lab, interact directly with community leaders, and deploy meaningful solutions to urban challenges. Want to know more about our upcoming courses? Get in touch!

The Campolide2021Challenge is also an opportunity for community leaders, local businesses, and activated citizens to harness the creativity and motivation of university students as they tackle actual challenges facing our communities. Are you interested in becoming a partner of the lab and deploying your own project as a future challenge to our students? Get in touch!

For further information please visit the Campolide 2021 Challenge Hub.

NOVA Cidade – Urban Analytics Lab organizes regular summer schools, in partnership with the most respected international academic and scientific programs, which include MIT Portugal and Carnegie Mellon Portugal, and in close and active collaboration with the most diverse stakeholders, both public and private, from universities to companies or municipalities. Summer schools, designed to provide training in subjects related to the areas of urban intelligence and analytics and open data and contribute to the improvement of governance and urban environments, are usually awarded funding from FCT – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology for several Research Initiation Scholarships and Research Scholarships for the participants of each edition.

Summer schools currently underway:

• C-TECH Summer School, MIT Portugal;
• Crypto Summer by Bee2WasteCrypto, CMU Portugal.