Smart Cities Expo · Porto Digital

Local to Global to Local: financing digital innovation in partnership

Explore how the digital innovation organisation of the city of Porto has grown its project portfolio and funding over the past 20 years, and where it wants to go next.

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in cumulative funding for Porto Ecosystem
€7.2M
Total cumulative funding secured for Porto Digital
Cumulative funding up to 2025
34.7%
Application success rate
of applications approved, 2021–2025, vs 14.4% EU average
207
Partner organisations
Across the projects in the partner dashboard

The 30 projects and 200+ partners at the top cover the past 20 years, as presented in the Porto Digital pitch.

Funding evolution

How funding has grown

Tap a bar to see which projects are behind it.

Cumulative funding

Running total of funding secured, shown for 2020–2025. €2.99M had already been secured before 2020.
Tap a bar to see the projects behind it.

Where the money comes from

Project management activity

Projects over time

The project portfolio since 2020.

Project Portfolio, by year

Number of projects in the portfolio in each year.

Project explorer

Filter by programme family, search by name, and tap a project for details.

Funding figures show the amount for Porto Digital. Status is derived from each project’s end date.

Applications

Applying, learning, improving

Every application builds knowledge, visibility and networks, even when it is not approved.

Success rate vs EU average

Share of applications approved. EU average from the source workbook.

Overall success rate: 34.7%

Against an average of 14.4% for the EU.
Partnerships

Building consortia across Europe

Funding is won in partnership. These are the organisations that Porto Digital works with.

Partners by country

Distinct partner organisations in active-project consortia (excluding Porto Digital).

Partners by type of organisation

84 distinct partner organisations.

Who partners repeatedly?

Of 207 partner organisations

Partners in each project

Number of partners listed per project. Counts may include organisations that appear in more than one project.
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Looking ahead

Vision 2029

Where we want to invest with partners

AXIS 1

Digital infrastructure, sovereignty and compliance

  • Resilience and continuity of critical digital infrastructure
  • Digital sovereignty and autonomy in strategic technologies
  • Cybersecurity and compliance by design
AXIS 2

Smart, resilient, data-driven territory

  • AI-enabled decision-making and improved public services
  • Interoperable and trusted urban data ecosystems
  • Predictive models and digital twins for urban planning and management
AXIS 3

Innovation, digital democracy and skills

  • Porto as a living lab for co-creation
  • Foster innovation with startups, academia and the tech sector
  • Digital skills and digital rights

How we work and what we offer

Analyse and build skills

Learn from past applications and approved projects

Structure

Structured submissions and continuous improvement

Implement

City-wide living lab and a multi-competent team

What we offer

  • Porto as a living lab for pilots
  • Innovation assets: data, sensors and city's technological infrastructure
  • Coordination of national and international applications

What we look for

  • Academic and business partners for consortia
  • Innovative projects
  • Shared knowledge and European networks

Let’s build consortia together!

geral@portodigital.pt