Horizon Europe – AntifragiCity

Horizon Europe – AntifragiCity

Title: AntifragiCity
Acronym: AntifragiCity

Consortium: 13 partners

Coordinator:

  • CARDIFF UNIVERSITY (United Kingdom)

Associate Partner:

  • EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH (ETH Zurich) (Switzerland)

Other Partners:

  • RHOE (Greece)

  • DEMO CONSULTANTS BV (Netherlands)

  • AUSTRALO INTERINNOV MARKETING LAB SL (Spain)

  • Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IED) (Greece)

  • 5Toffice (Ukraine)

  • Metropolitný Inštitút Bratislavy (Slovakia)

  • Municipality of Larissa (Greece)

  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

  • LISER – Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (Luxembourg)

  • National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) (Greece)

  • University General Hospital of Thessaloniki (Greece)

Overall Summary of the Work / Project: AntifragiCity

AntifragiCity (Horizon Europe RIA, 36 months) aims to develop a new governance model for urban mobility that goes beyond mere “resilience” to achieve antifragility—meaning systems improve through crises and disruptions.

The project will:

  • Create a framework and key performance indicators (KPIs) for continuous monitoring of mobility resilience.

  • Use event ontology to categorize and assess the severity of disruptions.

  • Develop a Mobility Triage Decision Support System (DSS) for short-term interventions.

  • Simulate and analyze long-term urban mobility management strategies using smart/intelligent systems (adaptive traffic management, predictive analytics, dynamic routing, adaptive lighting).

  • Implement participatory methods through Living Labs in three pilot cities (Larissa, Odessa, Bratislava) to actively involve citizens and institutions.

Expected Deliverables:

  • Urban Mobility Framework & KPIs

  • Resilience Monitoring API

  • Urban Event Ontology

  • Mobility Triage DSS

  • SUMA Simulator

  • Living Labs

  • Urban Mobility Manifesto

Role of Larissa in the Project

Larissa is one of the three pilot cities (use case cities).

As a pioneer in Greece (1st SVAK in 2015), Larissa faces several challenges:

  • Φυσικές καταστροφές: Σοβαρές πλημμύρες (Daniel, Elias) που διέκοψαν τις μετακινήσεις και επηρέασαν 200.000 κατοίκους.

  • Traffic problems: Illegal parking, incomplete or inadequate infrastructure, uncoordinated public transport lines.

  • Environmental pollution from increasing traffic and vehicle numbers.

  • Citizens’ distrust due to rapid changes without alternative solutions.

The presentation in Larissa will include:

  • Smart traffic management with adaptive signaling and reduction of illegal parking.

  • Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for parking monitoring, violation detection, traffic flow improvement, and early warning systems for floods/events.

  • Mobility Triage Framework to prioritize interventions during crises (natural disasters, major events).

  • Citizen engagement through workshops, consultations, deliberation, and evaluation of solution acceptance.

Thus, Larissa will act as a Living Lab, where project tools and methods will be tested in practice, aiming to increase resilience and create models that can be scaled up in other cities.

Duration: 36 months

Total Budget: €3,471,178.75

Budget for the Municipality of Larissa: €40,000

Total Budget: 4.993.275.00 €