The SCORE project strives for increased efficiency and quality of public services in cities, such as water supply, waste management, routing or traffic management, through smart and open data-driven solutions.
Improvement of public service delivery, PSD for short, can be done in different ways, for example by optimising the routing of garbage trucks based on waste location data, or guiding vehicles to available parking spots using sensor data and GPS. SCORE aims to increase the efficiency and quality of PSD in cities to reduce costs by 10 %. Urban data is unlocked and made inter-operable between departments and organisations. SCORE uses an agile software development approach for open source solutions that re(uses) data to improve PSD. These innovations can then be re-used for free by other North Sea Region cities and regions.
Cities across the North Sea Region collaborate to improve public service delivery based on smart and data-driven solutions. Together, the cities have the combined resources, IT competences, and policy expertise to achieve solutions for shared challenges that they could not achieve individually. They will engage existing smart city and data initiatives, networks of small and medium-sized enterprises, and open source communities.
SCORE is a European Union funded project with nine cities and three universities participating: Amsterdam, Aarhus, Aberdeen, Bergen, Bradford, Dordrecht, Ghent, Gothenburg, Hamburg, University of Amsterdam, Aarhus University and University of Bradford. They co-define shared challenges for improved municipal services. Cities pool resources and expertise to co-develop twelve innovative solutions to be tested and replicated transnationally in existing urban living labs.
