Athens

🇬🇷 Greece
🌍 Southern Europe
🏢 Dense
Photo credit: Photo: Constantinos Kollias / Unsplash

About

Athens is the capital of Greece. According to the City of Athens, the municipality covers 38.96 km² and has 637 798 residents, organised in 7 municipal communities and 38 neighbourhoods.

Additional Information

Sources: City of Athens, “Athens in numbers” (cityofathens.gr).

Climate: Meteostat, station Athens / Athenai / Pláka (16714), monthly normals 1991–2020.

Official website of the municipality: cityofathens.gr.

City Snapshot

Population

637798

Area

38.96 km2

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Strategic Vision and Achivements

Challenges

Challenges are defined by cities to clearly express the urban issues they are facing. They describe specific needs and contexts, helping innovators, companies, and organizations understand the problem and propose relevant, tailored solutions.

Experimental Capacity

The city’s capacity to host pilots can be summarised as follows:

  • Population and scale: a municipality of 637 798 residents on 38.96 km², organised in 7 municipal communities and 38 neighbourhoods.
  • Municipal service network: 9 citizen service centres, 6 municipal health clinics, 25 friendship clubs and 5 libraries, relevant touchpoints for health, care and citizen-facing pilots.
  • Space and scale for the current challenge: remote patient-monitoring deployments in the Athens area, at household or individual-patient scale.

Pilots

Pilots are real-life implementations of selected solutions in cities. They allow stakeholders to test ideas in real conditions, measure their impact, learn from the results, and determine whether the solution can be improved, replicated, or scaled to other contexts.
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