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How can processes be optimised for sustainability and climate-related improvements? What it brings to tourism? In many countries around the world, digital twins (realistic, virtual models) are used to simulate changes or potential impacts of events on city with an effort to minimize risks. A number of cities, including Vienna or Pilsen, are pioneers, but not only cities have a digital twins ...

More than 40 city nursery schools can communicate through the Digischool app. It has several functions. Firstly, it simplifies the communication between nursery schools and parents. It works as a digital notice board. It is possible to post information about changes and, at the same time, it is possible to send a mass message to parents, e.g., children were delayed on a trip, o...

More nano-air purifiers, which can destroy bacteria, yeast, moulds and viruses and thus reduce the risk of transmitting various diseases, have been newly installed in some municipal nursery and primary schools. The devices, in total of CZK 57,000, are now helping to clean the air in the 21^st nursery school in Slovany and in the 57^th nurser...

S4AllCities is an international project supported by the prestigious European research and innovation grant program Horizon 2020, which aims to reduce the vulnerability of public spaces, mitigate the consequences of terrorist attacks, increase public awareness and balance between improving security, functioning public spaces and citizens' sense of freedom. The great news is tha...

The local start-up company InnoConnect, which is based in the city technology park in Cukrovarská Street in Pilsen and focuses on processing “big data”, has presented a new interactive map of the spread of COVID-19 in the Czech Republic. The map of COVID-19’s spread was created with open data from the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic and provides much useful information. The applicat...