DIMOS LARISEON

Their core work

The Municipality of Larissa is a mid-sized Greek city administration that uses EU-funded projects to modernize its public services and address urban challenges. Their participation covers cybersecurity for municipal IT systems, nature-based urban regeneration, and digital tools for immigrant integration. As a local government body, they contribute real urban environments as living labs and provide access to municipal infrastructure, citizen populations, and local governance processes for testing and deploying project results.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Larissa's early H2020 involvement (2017-2018) focused on internal municipal modernization — securing IT infrastructure and urban greening. By 2020, the focus shifted clearly toward social inclusion, specifically immigrant integration and digital rights access. This trajectory reflects a municipality moving from back-office improvements to citizen-facing social innovation.

Larissa is trending toward socially inclusive digital public services, making them a relevant partner for projects addressing migration, civic participation, or e-government for vulnerable populations.

How they like to work

Larissa participates exclusively as a partner, never as coordinator — typical for municipalities that contribute pilot sites rather than project management. With 63 unique partners across just 3 projects, they operate in large consortia (averaging 21+ partners per project). This makes them an accessible, low-friction partner: experienced in multi-national consortia, comfortable with their role as an implementation site, and unlikely to compete for coordination.

Despite only 3 projects, Larissa has built connections with 63 partners across 19 countries, reflecting participation in large European consortia. Their network spans a wide geographic footprint across the EU with no narrow regional concentration.

What sets them apart

Larissa offers something many project consortia need but struggle to find: a willing, experienced Greek municipality ready to serve as a real-world testing ground. Their combination of cybersecurity, urban ecology, and migrant integration experience is unusual for a city of this size. For consortium builders needing a Southern European urban pilot site with prior EU project experience, Larissa is a practical and proven choice.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CLEVER Cities
  Longest-running project (2018-2023) with the broadest scope — nature-based urban regeneration combining ecological and social inclusion goals.
• EASYRIGHTS
  Most thematically distinctive project, addressing immigrant rights through digital mediation — a growing policy priority across EU cities.