The city of Valencia has inaugurated its Center of Excellence and Data Office (CEOD), a new urban innovation hub that is part of EDINT – Data Spaces for Smart Urban Infrastructures, the project led by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and funded by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, in collaboration with the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function, through Red.es.

During the event, the Councillor for Innovation, Technology, Digital Agenda and Investment Attraction, Paula Llobet Vilarrasa, highlighted that “this new center is an opportunity to implement impactful technology that helps us improve people’s lives, through public-private collaboration and cooperation with universities.”

On behalf of FEMP, Cristina Montalvá Medina, General Director of Equality and Local Policies, and Marta Marián de Diego, Smart Territories Technician, spoke, emphasizing EDINT’s transformative dimension: “today, not only a center is being inaugurated, but a new way of working. Data is no longer a byproduct, but the engine of the new economy and the raw material for public innovation.”