This Pole demonstrate a Smart City strategy to combine economic dynamism and sustainable development. The new major urban projects carried by all cities should become areas of experimentation "life size" to imagine and build new ways of living, living and to work in a city.

To be a smart city, is to imagine new development models for its territory, to find innovative solutions in response to economic, environmental or societal issues. These development models must encourage the creation of businesses through the digital economy and the green economy, accelerate the energy transition, offer new solutions and new uses in the service of the citizen.

These solutions will create new jobs, new businesses, resource savings and lower energy costs, gradually improving the quality of life for all.

The 4 pillars of the Smart City concept

• Taking into account environmental and energy issues
• Networking of actors: businesses, communities and citizens
• User participation in the development of products / services
• Integrating new technologies to pave the way for new behaviour