The Testing Actions of Heraklion City in Remote-IT Project
The Municipality of Heraklion is one of the eight partners in URBACT’s project “Remote-IT”. Remote-IT network tackles the new challenges cities are experiencing connected to the future of work.
What are you thinking about the future
The Urbact Local Group, after identifying the reasons that make Heraklion unattractive for digital nomads, defined the characteristics that would enhance its image and characteristics as a digital destination.
Which are the conclusions of the meetings of the Urbact Local Group until now
The Urbact Local Group studied the characteristics of the city of Heraklion through a constructive dialogue with all its members having an active role, making their suggestions and analyzing with arguments the reasons why Heraklion is not currently an attractive destination for digital nomads.
To solve a problem which method will you use?
The main question the Urbact Local Group was asked to answer is “why Heraklion is not an attractive destination for Digital Nomads”.
What was the original idea behind making Heraklion a Digital Nomads destination
The main objective of the REMOTE-IT network is understanding and solving the challenges of the future of work in urban areas, especially the impact and interrelationship of digital nomadism, hybrid work and remote work on urban development.
Private and public sector entities members of the ULG Heraklion
The selection of the Urbact Local Action Group for the city of Heraklion was not an easy task. The members had to cover a wide range of project needs in order to contribute in the best possible way to making Heraklion an attractive destination for digital nomads.
