Seminar
Smart Cities: Warsaw and Vienna in Dialogue
Speakers:
Johannes Lutter (Urban Innovation Vienna GmbH), presenting Vienna’s approach to public participation and innovation at the municipal level.
Marek Jezierski (Center of Public Communication, City of Warsaw), focusing on the Warsaw Citizen Budget program.
Monika Komorowska (Bureau for Architecture and Spatial Planning, City of Warsaw), discussing public participation strategies in urban planning.
Organisation: Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw, inter-faculty Smart City student society of the Warsaw Technical University

Vienna and Warsaw are cities of comparable scale and ambition, facing remarkably similar challenges: how to grow sustainably, how to remain socially inclusive, and how to ensure that residents are not only recipients of urban policy but active participants in shaping their cities. This edition of Smart Cities: Warsaw and Vienna in Dialogue focuses again on a two-way exchange between the two capitals, highlighting what has proven effective in each context and how these experiences can inform future cooperation.

At the center of the discussion are practical municipal tools for strengthening democracy, such as participatory budgeting, citizen initiatives, citizen budget, inclusive participatory formats, and structured feedback and dialogue systems between city administrations and residents. The conversation will also address the role of open data and civic technologies in enabling meaningful civic engagement, as well as the democratization of access to data as a key foundation for civil society initiatives. By comparing approaches from Vienna and Warsaw, the event aims to identify shared ground, transferable solutions, and concrete opportunities for collaboration in building more transparent, participatory and smart cities.


12.03.2026 at 3 pm 
Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw  
ul. Próżna 7/9Warsaw
Event in English
Free entry!