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The Smart City Hub Switzerland Association serves to promote cooperation and the exchange of knowledge. It sees itself as a vessel for intensive work on topics and projects of common interest. Smart City stands for holistic, future-oriented development concepts that aim to make cities more efficient, technologically advanced, greener and more socially inclusive. Swiss cities and their administrations have been confronted with this issue at various levels for some time. Important features of a smart city are networking, information exchange and closer cooperation with other stakeholders. A similar existing national platform is the Swiss Smart City Interest Group of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy, where cities, service providers and research institutions meet regularly to exchange information and experiences and to initiate projects. This open platform allows initial approaches, but not a more in-depth project-centred exchange.