TWINVERSE

TWINVERSE is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action involving 26 partners across 7 European countries, coordinated by Fondazione LINKS. The project develops a federated ecosystem of AI-enhanced Local Digital Twins (LDTs) to support five EU Mission Cities – Milan, Cork, Kalamata, Lappeenranta, and Vitoria-Gasteiz – in their transition toward climate neutrality.

The DAStU team at Politecnico di Milano contributes with two interconnected dimensions. The first regards the analysis and update of Climate City Contracts, SECAPs, and SUMPs across the five cities, developing crosswalk tables that that will produce evidence-based policy recommendations. The second is about co-developing AI services for just service distribution, addressing energy, cooling, and transport poverty in Milan through spatial equity analysis, micro-territorial simulation, and socio-demographic data integration.

Milan is the project’s Italian pilot city, where rising temperatures (+2.8°C since 2005), urban heat island effects, and fragmented planning data disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. TWINVERSE aims to introduce a Welfare Intelligence system to identify priority intervention areas, support the 15-minute city concept, and integrate socio-demographic insights into municipal decision-making.

Across all five cities, the project tests how AI-powered Digital Twins can move from technical infrastructure to governance tools, embedded in institutional workflows and co-designed with decision-makers and citizens through an 18-month piloting phase.