Zimin Institute for Smart and Sustainable Cities
#1 in innovation in the USA for the 6th consecutive year
The Institute at ASU started working in 2020. It supports 3 to 5 projects per year. The first project selection cycle was completed in July 2020. Four projects were selected as winners.
The Institute grantees must excel in innovation and demonstrate a high promise for transformative impact on city inhabitants’ quality of life. They must have clear path to creating a real-world technology in the mid-term. The allowed project stages range from ideation to prototyping.
The Institute is driving a people-centric vision of future cities. It strives to make cities safer and more secure, healthier, more sustainable and resilient, and more personally enriching. The Institute welcomes projects that will create scalable technologies, applicable to cities and communities of different sizes and types.
The focus areas of the Institute are:
