This task aims to oversee and manage all phases of the project, ensuring its successful execution within defined scope, timeline, and budgetary limits. This involves:

• Task Coordination and Strategic Planning: Organizing and aligning project activities among team members to optimize workflow and productivity.
• Financial Oversight: Managing and tracking expenses to maintain financial discipline and prevent budgetary deviations.
• Progress Monitoring and Reporting: Providing regular updates to stakeholders through structured reports, ensuring accountability and data-driven decision-making.
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Identifying potential challenges early and implementing proactive solutions to minimize disruptions.
• Stakeholder Communication: Maintaining clear and consistent communication with all relevant parties to align objectives, expectations, and deliverables.

By implementing structured coordination and management practices, this approach will drive the project toward successful and sustainable outcomes.

Mid-term Project Report and Final Project Report

Aligned with the objectives of the proposal, understanding decarbonization and its relation to urban settlements is critical. In this work package, we analyze the process and how to adopt a quantitative approach to monitor it, namely identifying and characterizing the necessary indicators, including urban management platform data sources required for calculation.

This task is divided into four main activities:

• Climate Action Process Analysis and Mapping

• Climate Action Performance Indicators and Metrics

• Climate Action Data Collection and Integration

• These activities represent the sequential steps to define the necessary Digital Twin conceptual framework concerning climate action processes.

• A structured process map outlining climate action governance frameworks, policy implementation steps, and operational workflows.
• A standardized set of climate action indicators, a methodological guide for calculation and interpretation, and a roadmap for integrating these indicators into the Digital Twin framework (T3).
• A report outlining the Digital Twin's intended outcomes and respective use case(s).

This step focuses on designing a robust architecture for the Digital Twin, capable of integrating diverse data sources, supporting complex analytical models, and ensuring interoperability and usability. The specification emphasizes modularity, scalability, and alignment with open standards, while incorporating stakeholder requirements and best practices from existing urban digital twin initiatives.

Expected outcomes include:

• A comprehensive set of requirements (functional and non-functional), tailored to each city’s needs.
• A reference architecture that ensures interoperability, modularity, scalability, and compliance with EU standards.
• A semantic framework and knowledge model to guarantee data consistency and reusability across domains such as emissions, energy, mobility, and environment.
• Analytical models developed, tested, validated, and documented to generate actionable insights for decision-making.

Digital Twin Specifications & Architecture Report

This step focuses on the practical deployment of the Digital Twin platform, turning the specifications into a working system. It involves setting up the core architecture, integrating real-time data sources, and operationalizing analytical models. The implementation will be guided by modularity and interoperability principles, ensuring that the system can grow and adapt over time.

Expected outcomes include:

• A functional Digital Twin prototype, deployed and tested in Lisbon, Porto, and Guimarães.
• Integration of real-time data streams from domains such as emissions, mobility, energy, and environment.
• Operational analytical models providing predictive and prescriptive insights.
• A scalable and interoperable platform ready for piloting and replication in other cities.

• Initial version of the Digital Twin platform
• Validated and tested prototype across pilot cities

This task ensures that the Digital Twin framework is supported by a robust data governance system, covering all aspects of data quality, protection, privacy, and cybersecurity. It defines procedures for data acquisition, storage, processing, and sharing, aligned with both EU standards and the European Data Space. Special attention is given to ethical considerations, interoperability, and compliance with GDPR.

Expected outcomes include:

• A comprehensive data governance framework ensuring quality, integrity, and accessibility of data.
• Policies and procedures for data privacy, cybersecurity, and ethical use.
• Interoperability guidelines for seamless integration with municipal systems and EU-level infrastructures.
• A secure foundation enabling trust and adoption of the Digital Twin platform by cities and stakeholders.

• Data Governance and Security Framework Report
• Data Management Policies and Compliance Guidelines

This task focuses on testing and validating the Digital Twin platform in real-world conditions across the pilot cities of Lisbon, Porto, and Guimarães. The goal is to assess the platform’s performance, usability, and impact in supporting climate governance. Pilot activities will involve stakeholders to ensure that the system responds to practical needs and can inform policy decisions effectively.

Expected outcomes include:

• Pilot demonstrations of the Digital Twin in different urban domains (emissions, mobility, energy, environment).
• Evaluation of system performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Validation of predictive and prescriptive models for decision support.
• Recommendations for improvements and refinements before large-scale adoption.

• Pilot Testing Report
• Evaluation and Validation Report

This task ensures that the project’s progress and results are widely communicated, disseminated, and exploited to maximize impact. Activities include the creation of a communication strategy and visual identity, management of project channels (website, newsletters, and social media), and organization of events to engage stakeholders and the general public. It also covers exploitation planning to secure sustainability and replication of results beyond the project’s lifetime.

Expected outcomes include:

• A coherent communication and dissemination strategy with dedicated tools and channels.
• Increased visibility of project results among scientific, technical, policy, and citizen audiences.
• Organization of workshops, conferences, and public events to showcase progress and outcomes.
• Exploitation guidelines to support long-term use and replication of the Digital Twin framework.

• Communication and Dissemination Strategy Report
• Project Website and Visual Identity Package
• Stakeholder Engagement Events Reports (multiple throughout the project)
• Exploitation and Sustainability Plan

This task is dedicated to measuring the impact of the Digital Twin framework and translating findings into actionable policy recommendations. It will assess the platform’s effectiveness in supporting climate governance, its contribution to decarbonization targets, and its potential for replication in other cities. The work also includes preparing guidelines and roadmaps to ensure that the knowledge generated informs local, national, and European strategies.

Expected outcomes include:

• A comprehensive assessment of the project’s scientific, technical, social, and environmental impacts.
• Policy recommendations to guide municipalities in adopting Digital Twin-based governance models.
• Guidelines and roadmaps for replication in other national and European cities.
• Strengthened alignment with the EU Mission Cities initiative and national climate strategies.

• Impact Assessment Report
• Policy Recommendations and Replication Guidelines