mySMARTLife Hamburg is the Hamburg component of the EU Horizon 2020-funded mySMARTLife project, which ran from 2016 to 2021 with Hamburg, Helsinki, and Nantes as lighthouse cities. The initiative focused on demonstrating integrated smart city solutions in the Bergedorf and Billstedt-Horn districts, targeting energy efficiency, sustainable mobility, and digital urban services.
Key interventions included deep energy retrofitting of residential buildings, deployment of smart street lighting with integrated sensors, installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and the rollout of an open urban data platform. The project piloted innovative mobility solutions such as electric bus lines and shared e-mobility services, whilst testing smart energy management systems in public and residential buildings.
Coordinated by Steinbeis Europa Zentrum and managed locally by Hamburg's Senate Chancellery and various city agencies, mySMARTLife engaged citizens through participatory processes and co-creation workshops. The project generated replicable solutions for other European cities and contributed to Hamburg's broader strategy of becoming a leading smart city, with lessons feeding directly into subsequent initiatives like the Connected Urban Twins programme.