Report on Smart Cities and Resilience

The report will address the self-enforcing circular process of the perceived contribution of the EU discourse to the social and economic development and, in turn, its contribution to the economic resilience. The report will test the hypothesis that a higher degree of creation and use of knowledge (including the knowledge and identification with the EU policy) lead to a higher economic resilience and hysteresis within the urban context by adopting both a qualitative and quantitative approach.