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Main activities and Timeline

These activities and timelines are only guidelines and of course subject to change. The numbers after the Milestones refer to the work packages (WP). Deliverables are summarised as D followed by the relevant WP number and then one or two more numbers related to the tasks within that WP, followed by the month it is expected to be done.

Work in progress: Still needs details and knowledge sharing events (in person and online) scheduled.

WP1: Process-oriented data approach
WP2: Living Labs
WP3: Technical Development
WP4: Extending tool for global reach
WP5: Project Management
WP6: DUT Knowledge Hub

First half of first year (M0 – M6)

Social aspects of project

  • Living Labs set up – establish case study communities
    • D1.5 at M5: Lab governance plan Orø.
      Milestone 1.5.1: Orø Living lab ready.
    • D1.6 at M5: Lab governance plan Nilüfer / Bursa
      Milestone 1.6.1: Nilüfer Living lab ready.
  • Civic techno-science data approaches under consideration
    • D1.4 at M7: Design document for the virtual community network infrastructure
  • Infrastructure for virtual community framework under consideration
  • Official opening of competition: March 2026 (M3, pending official start of the project)

Tool infrastructure aspects of project

  • Preliminary architectures for integrations in development
    • D1.1.1 at M5: Draft of initial “from and to“ data schemas
    • D1.1.2 at M5: Components for rudimentary technical connectivity and data availability between participants
    • D1.2.2 at M5: APIs for project data
    • D1.3 at M5: Summary of process-oriented data approach results
  • Data-driven decision making AI module in development
    • D1.2.1 at M5: Summary of state-of-art language models and cost evaluations

Overall project management

  • D5.5 at M7: Data management plan

Second half of first year (M7 – M12)

Social aspects of project

  • Establish virtual community
  • Media launch for competition
  • Prototype tool testing in Living Labs – limited functionality
  • Orø:
    • D2.4.1 at M12: Summary societal situation and challenges: Actor landscape with local water issues; the different understandings of water and water data
    • D2.4.2 at M12: Water data – what do we have – what do we need? How can we produce the needed data?
  • Nilüfer / Bursa:
    • D2.4.1 at M12: Summary societal situation and challenges: Actor landscape with local water issues; the different understandings of water and water data
    • D2.4.2 at M12: Water data – what do we have – what do we need? How can we produce the needed data?

Tool infrastructure aspects of project

  • Evolutionary Architecture Implementation
  • D3.3 at M8: Limited functionality tool prototype

Milestone 3.1: Platform prototype available for testing, considering both conventional and non-traditional data sources, limited functionality (M10)

Milestone 3.4.1: Prototype tool (M12)

Overall project management

Milestone 5.4.1: Reports from WP2, phase 1 (M12)

  • D5.1.1 at M12: Project summaries
  • D6.6.1 at M12: Summary of learnings and results from year 1 (one pager)
First half of second year (M 13 – M18)

Social aspects of project

  • Orø: Staging new participatory planning approaches
    • D2.1 at M12: Literature review and interview data related to water issues
    • D2.5 at M21: Trends – what do we see in the future? Scenario matrix and summary of alternative future scenarios
  • Nilüfer / Bursa: Walking interviews
    • D2.1 at M12: Literature review and interview data related to water issues
    • D2.5 at M21: Trends – what do we see in the future? Scenario matrix and summary of alternative future scenarios

Tool infrastructure aspects of project

  • D3.1 at M16: Interoperable ecosystem consisting of IPSME translators and reflectors

Milestone 3.2: AI module ready (M18)

Overall project management

Milestone 5.4.4: Technical report (M17)

Second half of second year (M 19 – M24)

Social aspects of project

  • Orø:
    • D2.2 at M21: Map of stakeholder relationship to water management including emotional dynamics
  • Nilüfer / Bursa:
    • D2.2 at M21: Map of stakeholder relationship to water management including emotional dynamics
  • D4.1 at M22: Summary of user testing

Tool infrastructure aspects of project

  • D3.4 at M20: Basic tool functionality; vertical slice as a minimum (In other words, the tool works well for the case study areas, but we expect significant troubleshooting needed for virtual use cases globally)
  • D4.3 at M22: Tourism knowledge graph and extra data for AI training
  • D3.2 at M24: Operational AI module to be embedded into the the tool

Milestone 3.4.2: Functional tool (M24)

Overall project management

Milestone 5.4.2: Reports from WP2, phase 2 (M22)
Milestone 5.4.5: Technical report (M23)

  • D5.1.2 at M22: Project summaries
  • D6.6.2 at M24: Summary of learnings and results from year 2 (one pager)
  • D6.3 at M24: Inputs for innovation portfolio (description of innovative solution(s); with relevance for achieving sustainability and liveability in cities; enabled by DUT; and with potential for scaling)
First half of third and final year (M 25 – M30)

Social aspects of project

  • Orø:
    • D2.6 at M30: Planning sequence and possible local actions for the desired future vision
    • D2.3 at M30: Final report detailing the vision for the region
  • Nilüfer / Bursa:
    • D2.6 at M30: Planning sequence and possible local actions for the desired future vision
    • D2.3 at M30: Final report detailing the vision for the region

Tool infrastructure aspects of project

Milestone 3.5: Visualisation of tool polished (M30)

Milestone 5.4.6: Platform Documentation (M35)

Overall project management

Milestone 6: Knowledge sharing and co-learning workshop (Portugal) (M27)

Second half of third and final year (M 31 – M36)

Social aspects of project

Tool infrastructure aspects of project

  • D3.5 at M32: Polished tool and documentation

Overall project management

Milestone 5.4.3: Reports from WP2, phase 3 (M31)

Milestone 5.2: Strategize: code, website and tool beyond
project lifespan (M35)

  • D4.2 at M34: Report reflecting on the competition staging; tool performance; user testing and lessons learned
  • D4.4 at M34: Summary of how the platform and knowledge gained can survive beyond the project
  • D5.1.3 at M34: Project summaries
  • D6.6.3 at M36: Summary of learnings and results from year 3 (one pager)
  • D5.4 at M36: Project final report for DUT

Milestone 4.2: Competition Celebration event: expected October 2028 (around M34).

See also: Flow of the project