Project consortium details and partner information.
Libelium (Coordinator)
Libelium designs and integrates Internet-of-Things (IoT) and data platforms that turn sensor networks into actionable insights for cities, utilities, and industry. The company focuses on open architectures, robust device fleets, and end-to-end integration from edge to cloud, enabling real-time monitoring, automation, and evidence-based policy. Its teams combine hardware engineering, data engineering, and civic-tech delivery to accelerate deployment and impact at city scale.
Role in SENSE: overall coordination and technical integration leadership, aligning pilots with Cartagena’s needs and ensuring end-to-end interoperability across the consortium.
City of Cartagena (Frontrunner City)
Cartagena is a coastal city with a strong innovation agenda spanning heritage, port economy, environmental quality, and digital public services. The municipality invests in open data and citizen participation to make planning more transparent and inclusive, while improving mobility, air quality, and urban resilience. Cartagena’s digital transformation leverages spatial planning, data governance, and stakeholder engagement to deliver tangible quality-of-life gains.
Role in SENSE: hosts a frontrunner CitiVerse pilot, opens municipal datasets, convenes local stakeholders, and validates replicable participation workflows.
City of Kiel (Frontrunner City)
Kiel is a Baltic maritime city with ambitious climate, mobility, and waterfront strategies. The city operates mature data platforms and collaborates closely with universities, NGOs, and startups to co-create resilient urban solutions. Kiel’s policies emphasise clean mobility, liveable neighbourhoods, and inclusive public spaces supported by transparent, data-informed decision-making.
Role in SENSE: runs a frontrunner CitiVerse pilot focused on environment, mobility, and resilience; contributes sensor and planning data; and co-designs citizen-facing XR (extended reality) experiences.
deltaDAO AG
deltaDAO AG specializes in building decentralized data & AI data space ecosystems, focusing on technical data sovereignty and compliance within the European digital landscape and Gaia-X. deltaDAO has orchestrated the largest publicly available Gaia-X ecosystem Pontus-X and lighthouse data space, enabling seven functional and interoperable Gaia-X Lighthouse projects across the domains agriculture, space, aerospace, mobility, manufacturing and industry 4.0. deltaDAO is certified Gaia-X advisor, orchestrator, accredited Gaia-X Clearing House (GXDCH) Provider, Gaia-X Member, and offers certified Gaia-X experts.
Role in SENSE: designs and operates the SENSE data space and marketplace, enabling cities and partners to onboard, govern, and reuse data for interactive Local Digital Twins.
Drees & Sommer
Drees & Sommer is a European consulting and engineering firm supporting sustainable buildings, infrastructure, and cities. It combines programme management, digital transformation, and ESG (environmental, social, governance) expertise to deliver resilient, cost-effective solutions. The firm works with public authorities and industry to bring together technology, governance, and user needs.
Role in SENSE: leads UC4 (Kiel Sealevel) within WP4, delivering the frontrunner pilot for Kiel; drives adoption and replication with follower cities, supports security-by-design and data authenticity, and contributes to long-term sustainability, training, and exploitation paths.
Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC)
OASC is a global network helping cities build interoperable digital ecosystems that avoid vendor lock-in and enable reuse of solutions. Working with cities, industry, and experts, OASC promotes the Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs)—a pragmatic set of building blocks for connecting data and services across jurisdictions. This reduces costs, increases portability, and accelerates innovation.
Role in SENSE: leads communications and international collaboration, advances practical interoperability (MIMs-aligned), and supports the City-x-City/CitiVerse Academy outreach for replication.
MaaS Alliance
The MaaS Alliance is a public-private partnership dedicated to advancing Mobility as a Service (MaaS) globally. Its mission is to unlock the economies of scale needed for successful MaaS implementation by facilitating a single and open market for these services. The Alliance brings together diverse stakeholders—including transport operators, service providers, and public authorities—to create the foundations for a common approach to MaaS. They work to ensure the full deployment of integrated, seamless, and sustainable mobility options that meet the needs of users in Europe and beyond.
Role in SENSE: advises on MaaS-ready architectures, standards alignment, and governance patterns so mobility use cases in the CitiVerse can scale across cities.
University of Galway
The University of Galway is a leading Irish research university with strong profiles in digital innovation, data governance, and societal impact. It connects academic excellence with public-sector transformation through multidisciplinary centres and European projects. The university contributes to standardisation, policy engagement, and evidence-based methods.
Role in SENSE: curates the CitiVerse Standards Register, consolidates best practices, and supports policy dissemination and stakeholder outreach to align SENSE with European and international efforts.
Kiel Marketing
Kiel-Marketing eV is the official marketing, PR and communication body for the state capital Kiel, promoting the city as a tourism destination and business location alongside the Kiel Economic Development Agency. It has deep local reach through events, fairs, guided tours and neighbourhood engagement, including flagship activities such as the «Kieler Woche», the world’s largest sailing event.
Role in SENSE: leverages its event infrastructure and citizen-facing networks to embed SENSE’s co-creation workshops into Kiel’s everyday activities, helping build local visibility and public engagement around the CitiVerse pilot.
DunavNet (DNET)
DunavNet is a technology company specialised in IoT and data-driven solutions, bringing expertise in interoperable data infrastructure, standardisation and large-scale data integration. Its experience spans smart city and industrial data platforms across Europe.
Role in SENSE: leads WP2 – Co-creating interoperable data foundations, delivering the SENSE Standards Register, privacy/cybersecurity recommendations, the data source catalogue and the integration of all frontrunner-city data sources into the CitiVerse data space in line with OASC MIMs. It also contributes to WP3, connecting city data sources with 3D visualisation services within the Gaia-X compliant architecture, and supports GitHub and cluster collaboration activities under WP6.
Imascono
Imascono is a technology company that guides businesses into the future, putting technology at their service in a personalized way. They combine their own agile methodology with a technology ecosystem that integrates AI agents, data intelligence, digital twins, immersive experiences, and digital transformation to drive the evolution of each business step by step.
Role in SENSE: leads the technical delivery of the Cartagena frontrunner pilots under WP4 — Smart Urban Mobility (UC1), Public Space, Environment & Quality of Life (UC2), and Kiel Hidden World (UC3) — bringing its immersive and AI-driven technology stack to bring these use cases to life for citizens.