Project type                                                             Living Lab

Promoter                                                                  City of Sfax

Start date                                                                 2013

Funding                                                                   Public Institutions of Sfax and European Union

The City of Sfax has promoted the Sfax Smart City Living Lab with the main aim of transforming public services in order to improve their provision and engage citizens in the democratic and decision-making process. This is possible due to new ICT solutions, so that citizens not only have easy access to data and information, but improve their interaction with local services.

The mission of Sfax Smart City Living Lab is to create a living environment for users and different sectors in order to reveal their innovative ideas thanks to the collaboration between the public and private sectors.

It is mainly an open platform for public-private actors aiming to increase life standards of citizens by taking into account their needs and expectations regarding research and technological development.

It is a great method to reveal innovative ideas based on the collaboration and cooperation of multiple actors such as universities, citizens, companies, research institutions, NGOs, media, experts and public institutions.

The main topics of the Sfax Smart City Living Lab are: Smart Administration, Smart Media, Smart Transport, Smart Energy, Smart Environment and Smart Health.

• Establishment of the ReGIM Lab in 1997 (now Living Lab)
• Sfax City affiliation as a Smart City in 2016 by IEEE

The Living Lab is offering benefits to its actors:

• Strengthen methods, ideas and good practice exchanges
• Capacity building
• New contexts for experimenting tools for projects
• Gain flexibility in ways of working
• Validate and improve innovation processes
• New skills
• Collaboration with other international Living Labs