Municipality of Middelfart
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Partner Information |
Middelfart is a small municipality (37.000 inh.) with the majority of inhabitants living in rural areas. It has experience towards digital post and Danish national login NemID and recently established the network of rural councils (lokalråd). Development and utilization of big data is another competence of the municipality. Middelfart has been chosen as the winner of “Innovation in Smart City projects“ award in 2016 by the national assembly of technical leaders in Danish municipalities. |
| Role in CORA | Middlefart will actively support partners in all project work packages. However its main activities are concentrated on carrying out the diagnostic surveys to identify local challenges, digital competences training and testing a new online car-sharing model in rural areas. Policy briefing and streamlining the lessons learned to higher political authorities is another activity of the municipality in CORA. |