TITLE: AntifragiCity
ACRONYM: AntifragiCity
Consortium: 13 partners

Coordinator:

• CARDIFF UNIVERSITY (United Kingdom)

Associate Partner:

• EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH (ETH Zurich) (Switzerland)

Other Partners:

• RHOE (Greece)

• DEMO CONSULTANTS BV (Netherlands)

• AUSTRALO INTERINNOV MARKETING LAB SL (Spain)

• Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IED) (Greece)

• 5Toffice (Ukraine)

• Metropolitný Inštitút Bratislavy (Slovakia)

• Municipality of Larissa (Greece)

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

• LISER – Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (Luxembourg)

• National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) (Greece)

• University General Hospital of Thessaloniki (Greece)

Overall Summary of the Work / Project: AntifragiCity

AntifragiCity (Horizon Europe RIA, 36 months) aims to develop a new governance model for urban mobility that goes beyond mere “resilience” to achieve antifragility—meaning systems improve through crises and disruptions.

The project will:

• Create a framework and key performance indicators (KPIs) for continuous monitoring of mobility resilience.

• Use event ontology to categorize and assess the severity of disruptions.

• Develop a Mobility Triage Decision Support System (DSS) for short-term interventions.

• Simulate and analyze long-term urban mobility management strategies using smart/intelligent systems (adaptive traffic management, predictive analytics, dynamic routing, adaptive lighting).

• Implement participatory methods through Living Labs in three pilot cities (Larissa, Odessa, Bratislava) to actively involve citizens and institutions.

Expected Deliverables:

• Urban Mobility Framework & KPIs

• Resilience Monitoring API

• Urban Event Ontology

• Mobility Triage DSS

• SUMA Simulator

• Living Labs

• Urban Mobility Manifesto

Role of Larissa in the Project

Larissa is one of the three pilot cities (use case cities). As a pioneer in Greece (1st SVAK in 2015), Larissa faces several challenges:

• Natural disasters: Severe floods (Daniel, Elias) that disrupted transportation and affected 200,000 residents.

• Traffic problems: Illegal parking, incomplete or inadequate infrastructure, uncoordinated public transport lines.

• Environmental pollution from increasing traffic and vehicle numbers.

• Citizens’ distrust due to rapid changes without alternative solutions.

The presentation in Larissa will include:

• Smart traffic management with adaptive signaling and reduction of illegal parking.

• Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for parking monitoring, violation detection, traffic flow improvement, and early warning systems for floods/events.

• Mobility Triage Framework to prioritize interventions during crises (natural disasters, major events).

• Citizen engagement through workshops, consultations, deliberation, and evaluation of solution acceptance.

Thus, Larissa will act as a Living Lab, where project tools and methods will be tested in practice, aiming to increase resilience and create models that can be scaled up in other cities.

Duration: 36 months
Total Budget: €3,471,178.75
Budget for the Municipality of Larissa: €40,000
Total Budget: 4.993.275.00 €