At a glance, you can have opinions about our current projects:https://www.bursa.bel.tr/dosyalar/birimek/1gr1h0s8kwjoosk.pdf
It is worth highlighting key information about our institution: Bursa Metropolitan Municipality is the local government authority responsible for providing municipal services across 17 districts of Bursa, Türkiye’s fourth-largest city and a major industrial, cultural, and historical hub. With a population exceeding 3 million, Bursa is a dynamic metropolitan area that combines strong manufacturing capacity with rich agricultural lands, vibrant tourism, and a rapidly growing innovation ecosystem.
We play a leading role in advancing sustainable urban development, climate change adaptation, smart city transformation, and inclusive social policies. It implements a wide range of projects in areas such as sustainable mobility, energy efficiency, water and waste management, circular economy, rural development, digitalization, innovation, and social inclusion.
Bursa Metropolitan Municipality have an Integrated Management System Policy with ISO 9001 Quality Management System, ISO 14001 Environmental Management System, ISO45001 Occupational Health and Safety, ISO 56002 Innovation Management System (the only implementing municipality in our country), ISO 50001 Energy Management System, ISO 27001 Information Security Management System. These are accountable with an impartial and participatory management approach that has a great impact on increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of resources.
With the coordination of Research, Development and Innovation Branch, Bursa Metropolitan Municipality actively develops and manages EU-funded and internationally funded projects, fostering partnerships with universities, research centers, NGOs, and private sector stakeholders. The Municipality is experienced in Horizon Europe, IPA and other international /national cooperation programs, with a strong focus on co-creation, citizen engagement, and evidence-based policy-making.
Specifically, our 2 projects get support from DUT 2024 call. One is "SCOT-DT – Building Sustainable Future Coastal Tourism: Digital Twins for Resilient and Culturally Sensitive Blue Tourism",/Europe DUT 2024 call. The SCOT-DT project aims to shape the future of blue and cultural tourism by using digital twin technologies. Our goal is; to implement a sustainable, climate-resilient and locally sensitive tourism model in Europe's coastal regions. In the project, a participatory decision support system will be developed in Mudanya, İznik and Cumalıkızık (UNESCO World Heritage Sites), which were selected as pilot application areas from Bursa, working with local communities and supported by technological data. In this way, tourism policies will be reshaped based on both environmental and cultural sustainability.
Secondly, "AquaSavvy – Bringing Water Sensitive Urban Design into Digital Twins of Cities" project has been entitled to be supported. Our project aims to make water systems, which are often ignored in cities, visible and to support sustainable water management through participatory planning approaches.
The web-based digital twin tool to be developed will work with artificial intelligence modules and community-contributed data platforms.