Project cooperationUpdated on 23 September 2025
CUE-LAB: Circular Urban Tourism Living Lab (EU Cities + Costa Rica)
About
We’re assembling a transnational consortium for DUT CUE-2 to pilot resident-first, circular tourism with an AI-enabled operations stack. Three EU city labs will test policy and operational tools to reduce waste, balance visitor flows, stabilize affordability, and strengthen local food systems—while a Costa Rica micro-destination (Domos Sustainable Lab) serves as a cooperation site to validate scalable, low-cost solutions.
What we offer
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Ready living-lab: PWA “hotel in your phone,” AI concierge, open APIs to PMS/booking, QR bike rental with geofencing, returnable/refill network, constructed wetlands for greywater, EV green chargers, and biodiversity actions (native fruit trees, pollinator gardens, bee biospheres).
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Shared KPI framework (energy/water/waste/mobility/equity/biodiversity) and open toolkits (SOPs, data schema, policy playbooks).
What we seek
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Municipalities/DMOs: visitor-flow management, housing/affordability measures, public-space and mobility pilots.
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Universities/Research: evaluation, spatial analysis, circular metrics, SROI.
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SMEs/Tech: micromobility, refill logistics, EMS/BMS, PMS/open-API, wetland/water reuse, fintech/tokenized payments.
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Civil society/producer co-ops: local sourcing, benefit-sharing fund governance.
Planned outcomes
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Lower kWh & liters per guest-night; higher reuse/return rates; reduced hotspot pressure; increased spend with local producers; resident satisfaction gains.
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Replicable governance & operations playbooks for cities and destinations.
Topic
- CUE topic 1 – Resilient green and social infrastructure
- CUE topic 2 – Sustainable tourism – circular benefits and challenges
- CUE topic 3 – Public procurement to foster urban greening and circularity
- PED topic 2 – Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets
Type
- Looking for partners to join a project
- Looking to join a project
Organisation
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- CUE topic 3 – Public procurement to foster urban greening and circularity
Jean-Paul Calbimonte
Associate Professor at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland HES-SO
Sierre, Switzerland