Explore, Shape & Deal: Joint SCIS & EIP-SCC Newsletter
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No Images? Click here  Explore, Shape & DealJoint SCIS & EIP-SCC NewsletterNovember 2019It is Barcelona time – time to join the Smart City World Expo 2019! Under the slogan “Cities Made of Dreams”, we gather for three days of in-depth debate about EU Smart Cities and Communities. We welcome three new projects to our family and are excited that the smart city family keeps on growing. Over the last couple of months, we have engaged with many smart city representatives to develop a comprehensive program at the EU Smart Cities and Communities stand. So please take a look at the Explore section below, find the ultimate Barcelona Program and join us! But what are cities “made of dreams”? The BBC wonders what cities would look like if women would design them and talked to Punt 6, a feminist collective of urban planners and Janet Sanz, Deputy Mayor for Urbanism. Have a look here. We think that a city made of dreams is about sustainability, inclusion and collaboration – a city by all and for all. As part of the EU Smart Cities and Communities, we are demonstrating many good examples and thus show that this no longer has to remain a dream. To the smart cities not made of dreams but made of facts - see you in Barcelona! The SCIS & EIP-SCC Team Explore: The Ultimate SCEWC Barcelona ProgramThe Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona is taking place from 19-21 November 2019. We invite you to join us and the 14 SCC1 European Lighthouse projects at the following activities: Joint EIP-SCC / SCIS / SCC1 Stand Come visit us at our joint stand in Hall 1, B140 Agora Sessions Tuesday, 19.11., 9.45-10.45, Place: North Agora “From dream to reality: Impact of lighthouse projects on cities” The three projects GrowSmarter, Triangulum and REMOURBAN that started as the first three projects in 2014 and are thus ending soon are showcasing the changes and impacts that piloting solutions had on their cities. Wednesday, 20.11., 15:00-15:45, Place: South Agora “The Journey: from Nearly Zero Energy Neighbourhood to Positive Energy Districts” The evolution from nZEBs to PEDs, illustrated by project cases from REMOURBAN, mySMARTLife, MAKING-CITY and +CityxChange. Thursday, 21.11., 10:30-11.15, Place: Central Agora “Europe 2030: What’s next for Smart Cities and Communities?” Debate on the future of smart cities and communities, showcasing policy aspects as well as concrete results and packaging approaches for replication and upscaling. Workshops Tuesday, 19.11. 11.00-11:45 Welcome: EIP SCC - The Marketplace 12.00-12.45 SCIS: Live SCIS Self Reporting Tool Helpdesk 13.00-13.45 Smart Public Lighting and IP Services 14.00-14.45 A Mission to Deliver the Cities of the Future 15.00-15.45 EIP SCC - The Marketplace: Action Clusters 16.00-16.45 Nordic Lighthouse Cities - Smart, Bold and Collaborative Wednesday, 20.11. 10.30-11.00 Replicating Smart Solutions in GrowsSmarter 11.00-11.45 Financing - Let's Make it Happen 12.00-12:45 Visualising the Smart City 13.00-13.45 Open Urban Data Platforms 14.00-14.45 Spanish Smart Cities 16.00-16.45 Build-up “Open” Eco Systems in Smart City Projects 17.30 - 19.00 Night of EU Smart Cities and Communities Thursday, 21.11. 10.00-10.30 Scale-up Your SC Solutions through the EU City Facility 12.00-12.45 Impacts Beyond the Projects 14.00-14.45 A Pitch from the Lyon Makers Sessions 14.45 -15.30 SCC1 Projects Stakeholders´Map by MAKING-CITY
Deal: SCEWC Barcelona Brokerage EventDuring the SCEWC Barcelona, there will be a brokerage (partnering) event organised by the Enterprise Europe Network, which is an established network with local and committed members co-financed by the EU. The brokerage event takes place on the 19-20 November 2019 and is organized by ACCIÓ, a department of the Catalan Government's Ministry of Enterprise and Labour, partnering with the Enterprise Europe Network. Participants sit down in pre-arranged, targeted B2B meetings for discussing project set-ups and collaborations. Please click "More information" for further info and registration (view the already registered organisations) Share: Take the Lead in ValladolidHomeowners in Laguna de Duero had a problem. Their energy network was not working well, so they decided that the district needed an upgrade. That is where the CityFied project stepped in, offering a new district heat network fuelled by biogas and retrofitting to make homes more energy efficient. Monitoring in the project is still in its early stages, but it already looks like the upshot of this intervention is 35% lower energy consumption and 90% CO2 emission reduction through the switch to biogas, with almost 70% of the 4,000 residents involved reporting that they were ‘very satisfied’ with the results. Read the SCIS interview with Estefanía Vallejo Ortega, architect at CARTIF Technology. Explore: Three New SCC1 Projects SPARCs, POCITYF and ATELIERSPARCs Launched Beginning of October in Espoo, FinlandSPARCs brings together 31 partners in a network of sustainable and zero carbon communities to trigger citizen-centric urban transformation with a focus on digitalisation, sustainable energy, improved air quality, electro-mobility solutions, and a framework for performance monitoring of the developed solutions. The Lighthouse Cities, Espoo (FI) and Leipzig (DE), aim to prove that the urban energy transformation of a city into a carbon neutral urban community is socially and economically viable. Fellow Cities, Kifissia (GR), Kladno (CZ), Maia (PT), Lviv (UA) and Reykjavik (IS) demonstrate the smooth transferability of this transformation model.
POCITYF Project Raises Stakes for Positive Energy City Transformation The new Smart City EU-funded project, POCITYF, is set to transform our historical and cultural cities into more efficient, healthy, sustainable living environments with "positive energy districts". Led by EDP, the project kicked off on 9 October with 46 partners from 13 countries. At the heart of this new project lie “Positive Energy Blocks/Districts”, which are groups of buildings that actively manage their energy consumption and the energy flow between them and the wider energy system. Positive energy districts have an annual positive energy balance. Kicking off on 9 October in Évora, Portugal, POCITYF (A Positive Energy CITY Transformation Framework) combines these positive energy blocks with grid flexibility, e-mobility, innovative ICT technologies and citizen engagement strategies. The overall aim is to help cities deliver positive energy districts while respecting their mixed urban settings that often include listed buildings of historical interest and other cultural heritage features.
ATELIER Smart City Project: Citizen-Driven Positive Energy DistrictsOn 1 November 2019, the Smart City project ATELIER, funded by the European Commission under the H2020-LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020 call, has officially started. Coordinated by the City of Amsterdam, ATELIER will focus on developing citizen-driven Positive Energy Districts in its two Lighthouse Cities Amsterdam and Bilbao, combining the expertise and the commitment of 30 partners from 11 countries. ATELIER is all about AmsTErdam and BiLbao cItizen drivEn smaRt cities, aiming to create and replicate Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) within eight European cities. ATELIER will showcase innovative solutions that integrate buildings with smart mobility and technologies to create rather than consume energy in its two Lighthouse Cities Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Bilbao (Spain). ATELIER will thus generate an energy surplus of 1340 MWh of primary energy and save 1,7 kt of CO2 and 23 t of NOx-emissions. The Fellow Cities of ATELIER, Bratislava (Slovak Republic), Budapest (Hungary), Copenhagen (Denmark), Krakow (Poland), Matosinhos (Portugal), and Riga (Latvia), will replicate and adapt the successfully implemented solutions and thus serve as testbeds for future smart cities. Shape: Calling All Cities, Calling All Cities!If you’re interested in and can influence how your city exploits data better, please complete this survey, or ask the person in your city that can. It’ll take you 30 mins and your support will very much be appreciated! Smart City activities too often start with (pilot) projects that are confined to a specific ‘vertical’ service domain in the city, e.g. energy management or mobility. That may be good to learn about the specifics of that service, however they tend to do little in terms of city-wide benefits from data. Indeed, unless these projects do connect up their data across the city, they are very likely to be leaving potential benefits untapped! How then can we change things?
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