Presenting T4R at the Interreg NWE Annual Event in Luxembourg
During the Interreg NWE Annual Event in Luxembourg on December 15, we had the opportunity to present Twin4Resilience to an audience of policy officers, researchers and practitioners from across North-West Europe. Our contribution combined a short pitch with a staged participatory setting and a live demonstration of Netherlands3D, guided by Utrecht’s technical expert on the Local Digital Twin.
In the pitch, we introduced T4R as a collaboration of 14 partners from six NWE countries, working together to use Local Digital Twins to support more resilient and sustainable territorial development. We showed how LDTs bring together diverse datasets in an interactive 3D environment, making it possible to explore the impact of urban planning, green spaces, traffic or temperature changes, and to support better joint decision-making based on both data and lived experience.
T4R poster at the project exhibition in the main hall of the European Convention Centre
To make this tangible, we invited the audience into a fictional but recognisable scenario: a public square in a mid-sized European city facing challenges around heat stress, densification and liveability. Through a panel-style setup, a business owner, an urban planner and a technical expert explored the space together using the Digital Twin. By testing scenarios live, such as adding trees to increase shade while accounting for underground infrastructure and planning regulations, we demonstrated how an LDT helps balance different needs and constraints on one shared platform.
The session concluded with a reversed Q&A, using Mentimeter to invite the audience to reflect on key questions around democracy, ethics and governance: who Local Digital Twins should be for, how to make them understandable and trustworthy, and how data ownership and privacy should be organised. This interactive exchange underlined one of T4R’s core messages: a Local Digital Twin is not just a technical tool, but a bridge between data, policy and people.
Over the coming months, T4R will continue with the implementation of its training programme and eight pilots across the NWE region. We look forward to further exchanges and collaborations sparked by this inspiring event.