Smart city solutions require innovative governance approaches together with the smart use of technology, such as digital twins, by city managers and policymakers to manage the big societal challenges. The project Smart Cities aNd Digital Twins in Lower Austria (SCiNDTiLA) extends the state of the art of research in several contributing disciplines and uses the foundations of complexity theory and computational social science methods to develop a digital-twin-based smart city model. The project will also apply a novel transdisciplinary process to conceptualise sustainable smart cities and validate the smart city generic model. The outcomes will be translated into a roadmap highlighting methodologies, guidelines and policy recommendations for tackling societal challenges in smart cities with a focus on rescaling the entire framework to be transferred to regions, smaller towns and non-urban environments, such as rural areas and smart villages, in ways that fit the respective local governance, ethical and operational capacity context.

翻译：智慧城市解决方案需要城市管理者和政策制定者采用创新治理方法，并配合数字孪生等技术的智能化应用，以应对重大社会挑战。"下奥地利智慧城市与数字孪生"项目（SCiNDTiLA）拓展了多个相关学科的研究前沿，依托复杂性理论基础与计算社会科学方法，构建了基于数字孪生的智慧城市模型。该项目还将应用新型跨学科流程，概念化可持续智慧城市并验证智慧城市通用模型。研究成果将转化为路线图，重点突出方法论、指导方针和政策建议，旨在应对智慧城市中的社会挑战，其核心目标是将整个框架进行尺度重构，使其能够适配区域、小型城镇及非城市环境（如乡村地区和智慧村庄），并符合当地治理、伦理及运营能力的具体情境。