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Calls for Solutions help providers find those cities in need of their solutions and provides cities the advice and tools to evaluate the results.

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Barcelona calls for solutions to tackle some of the most challenging social problems.

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Calls for Solutions are a complete service to help organizations define their needs, publish them and discover the best solutions in the global marketplace.

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What is a Call for Solutions?

Since 2009, Citymart.com has published more than 70 Calls for Solutions in partnership with global cities covering challenges such as “The Future of Biking” in Copenhagen, “Automation of Urban Services” in Barcelona and “5 Million Affordable Housing Units” for Lagos.

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Why?
Cities publish Calls for Solutions to gain systematic intelligence about available approaches to meet a need, to maximize on an opportunity to improve lives, or to solve a problem. On average, cities report, that they find 7-10x as many solutions through a Citymart.com Call for Solution than they would have discovered otherwise.
How?
For providers, Calls for Solutions are published on Citymart.com and direct them to opportunities in cities that match their solution. Winners of past Calls for Solutions, such as Socrata, Paradox Engineering, Urbiotica, Connecthings and Nollywood Workshops have implemented successful pilots and built real-life market references, raised venture capital, built industry partnerships or succeeded in significant procurement contracts.

7 Steps of a Call for Solutions


ONE

Support in defining, validating and articulating the problem


TWO

Set-up of evaluation criteria for submissions


THREE

Publication of the Call for Solutions on Citymart.com


FOUR

Pro-active research and discovery to find all solution candidates


FIVE

Follow-up and recruitment of submissions


SIX

1-2 Round Evaluation through appointed Jurors on Citymart.com


SEVEN

Publication of Results

Interested in Publishing a Call for Solutions?

Citymart.com offers two main options to publish a Call for Solutions:

Firstly, our flagship LLGA | Cities Pilot the Future programme provides a global campaign in which 30 cities jointly publish their challenges, participate in a 3 day meeting with nominated solution providers, and implement pilots together with winning providers. You can request more information by contacting us.

Secondly, our process and method are open to independent Calls for Solutions, organized either directly by cities or by intermediary organizations on their behalf. Your Call for Solutions will receive full support and access our team’s experience, including our research capability. Your Call for Solutions may lead to different outcomes such as Innovation Prizes, Pilot Implementations, Pre-Procurement Intelligence or serve other objectives.

If you are interested in Publishing a Call for Solutions, please contact Aida Esteban on a.esteban[at]livinglabs-global.com

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