EU view on Smart Cities
EIP Smart Cities and Communities in a nutshell.
Genova 18 June 2014 "Smart Cities and Sustainability – the city we want".
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Colette Maloney
Head of Unit "Smart Cities and Sustainability"
Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and
Technologies.
European Commission
EIP SCC – why we do it and what we aim at.
Cities consuming over 70% of energy and emitting as much of greenhouse gases.
Objective
Accelerate development and deployment of integrated energy, transport and ICT
solutions at local level to serve EU climate/energy targets
Ultimate aim
Transform a number of European cities
How
Provide funding through work programme for selected large-scale demonstration
projects
Prepare for scale-up through focused horizontal activities (capturing lessons
learned, identifying needs for regulation & standards, harmonising approaches to
data collection, formatting and measurement, etc.)
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EIP SCC– Philosophy
 Tackle common challenges &
bottlenecks
 Develop innovative & replicable
solutions
Each city is unique …
 Bundle demand from cities and
regions
 Attract and involve business and
banks
 Create markets!
… but there are common challenges!
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EIP SCC – the structure
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EIP SCC – what we have done under this structure?
H2020 CALL FOR LIGHTHOUSE PROJECTS (92M€)
H2020 CALL FOR SUPPORT ACTION AROUND DATA & KPI (1 M€)
SIP
OIP
COMMITMENTS
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EIP SCC – We would like to see progress across 11 priority areas
Funds
Insight
Decisions
Sustainable Urban
Mobility
Sustainable Districts &
Built Environment
Integrated
Infrastructure &
Processes
Citizen Focus
how we build society into the process as an integral actor for transformation and beneficiary of gains
Policy & Regulation
creating the enabling environment to accelerate improvement
Integrated Planning
how we work across sector and administrative boundaries; and manage temporal goals
Knowledge Sharing
how we accelerate the quality sharing of experience to build capacity to innovate and deliver
Metrics & Indicators
enabling cities to demonstrate performance gains in a comparable manner
Open Data
understand how to exploit the growing pools of data; making it accessible – yet respecting privacy
Standards
providing the framework for consistency commonality and repeatability, without stifling innovation
Business Models, Procurement & Funding integrating local solutions in an EU and global market
EIP SCC – what is coming?
 Analysis of the received commitments over the summer.
 Creation of action clusters at the intersection of the received commitments
and the 11 priority areas in the SIP.
 Next version of the Operational Implementation Plan by autumn.
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EIP SCC– Metrics & Indicators are at the base. One example of
possible action cluster.
Metrics & Indicators
enabling cities to demonstrate performance gains
in a comparable manner
We don't want to make the 201st list of
KPIs for cities to choose from; we
need to go beyond.
Procurement
Business Models, Procurement & Funding
integrating local solutions in an EU and global market
Funding (public
and private)
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EIP SCC – Bottom line is that we need your involvement or …
We are dealing with city problems : we need cities' engagement to
make something meaningful.
We are talking about new business opportunities: we need
engagement of companies.
… this exercise is …
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European Innovation Partnership
on
Smart Cities and Communities
for more information
http://ec.europa.eu/eip/smartcities/
or
ec-smartcities@ec.europa.eu
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