First measure from Dresden pilot project Smart City implemented

New "cleema App" enables local climate protection

With the pilot project Smart City , the state capital Dresden wants to investigate and implement experimental and innovative formats for urban development and citizen participation. To this end, it is working together with the Technical University Dresden (TUD) on a Smart-City strategy. Following the launch of the model project Smart Cities in the state capital's own IT services company Dresden on January 1, 2022, the first funded measure has now been implemented with the "cleema App".
The Dresden start-up cleema wants to encourage people in Dresden to act sustainably with a cell phone application - with playful incentives and easy-to-implement tips for a more conscious everyday life. The app has been available free of charge in the app stores since mid-February. The first users are already active in the app. Many are familiar with the previous version, which was successfully tested last year. The findings gathered in the pilot operation with around 3,000 participants have now been incorporated into the new app.

In addition to quizzes, news and tips, the application offers the opportunity to complete challenges alone or together with friends and to actively participate in local projects. The topics are wide-ranging: from energy and mobility to nature conservation, waste, recycling, sustainable consumption, knowledge and society. The app thus contributes to sustainability and climate goals from the climate protection concept and the integrated urban development concept of the state capital Dresden.
Together with the community, the cleema team is constantly tinkering, developing and testing. The "cleema app" fits very well into the model project Smart City Dresden , particularly because of this participatory approach.
Prof. Dr. Michael Breidung, Head of IT Services of the state capital Dresden: "As a digital solution, the cleema app should also help to make urban development more participatory. This supports our goal of using the Smart-City project to create smart neighborhoods with a higher quality of life, participation and sustainability." The German Smart cities are to use the opportunities offered by information and networking technologies in the interests of sustainable and integrated urban development.

After the strategy phase, the implementation phase will soon begin: the Smart Cities model project is divided into two phases: the strategy phase, which will run until 30 June 2023, and the implementation phase, in which specific measures and projects will be implemented and optimized between 1 July 2023 and 31 December 2026. In the current strategy phase, the focus has so far been on creating the Smart-City strategy. The WISSENSARCHITEKTUR Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture at the Technical University Dresden has defined goals for what a smartes Dresden should look like in the future. To this end, the scientists conducted interviews and strategy workshops and thus jointly developed ideas, content and possible solutions for the Smart-City strategy with the participation of various municipal organizational units, external supporters and the citizens of Dresden.
The model project Smart Cities is funded by the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building and the project sponsor Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).

Background

Cleema GmbH emerged in June 2022 from a cross-company project of the state capital Dresden, SachsenEnergie, Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe and Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden. Since then, the five-member founding team has further developed the successfully tested approach and is now on the market with its own product. Since 2022, the cleema project has been part of the model project Smart City Dresden , in which the development costs for the revision of the existing app were financed by project funding.