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🇩🇪 Gelsenkirchen

GE grünt: Environmental Sensors & Green Citizen Budget

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Part of Gelsenkirchen's federally funded smart city programme, a network of environmental sensors tracks groundwater, soil moisture, rainfall, temperature and noise for city-climate monitoring. It is paired with a €500,000 'green budget' that lets residents aged 16+ propose and vote on neighbourhood greening projects, with selected measures built through 2026.

In build 📅 since 2021
Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byStadt Gelsenkirchen
Scale🏙️ City-wide
Cost≈€630K (90% federal; €500K citizen budget)
FundingBMWSB Smart Cities model project (90%)
🌱 EnvironmentSensors & IoTCitizen participation

Sources

↗ Stadt Gelsenkirchen — GE grünt project page (authority)Official project page: sensor network, data types, ≈€630K volume, 90% BMWSB funding, runs to 2026.
↗ Grünes Bürgerbudget — participation platform (authority)Citizen-budget mechanics: €500K, residents 16+ propose/vote, 48 ideas submitted, implementation through Oct 2026.

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Compare this project

🇫🇷 Budget Participatif — Citywide Participatory Budgeting · Paris Same propose-and-vote idea, one theme: Paris has voted on ~5% of its budget since 2014; Gelsenkirchen steers a EUR500k greening budget. 🇩🇪 Smart City Strategy “Gemeinsam Digital” · Berlin Both federally funded German smart-city programmes with resident budgeting: Berlin backs district pilots, Gelsenkirchen a green budget. 🇦🇺 Urban Forest Visual & Email-a-Tree · Melbourne Both put greening in residents' hands: Gelsenkirchen votes a green budget; Melbourne opened its tree data for citizens to adopt in 2013.

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📟 A Reading Is Not a Decision📡 Sensors & IoT guide🏙️ Gelsenkirchen city profile🌱 Environment projects📖 Adaptive traffic signals📖 Air quality index (AQI)📖 Automated speed enforcement (speed cameras)
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “GE grünt: Environmental Sensors & Green Citizen Budget” — Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/gelsenkirchen-ge-gruent/ (last verified 2026-07-18). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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