Smart Cities and Communities Brokerage event, 13th of December 2013
Minutes and participants lists
Project 1
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
EXERGIA S.A
Greece
Maria Athanasopoulou
m.athanasopoulou@exergia.gr
Maria Athanasopoulou of EXERGIA S.A. presented their proposal for the establishment of three
lighthouse projects in coastal cities from three different Member States. The project will implement
near-to-market technologies which intersect energy, transport and ICT and are specifically designed
with coastal localities in mind.
There is currently interest from Greek and Cypriot cities. An additional partner is required, and an
Italian or Spanish city would be preferred. While there was interest in EXERGIA’s work at the
brokerage there was not considered the possibility for partnership.
Participants
Name
Organisation
EXERGIA Energy and Environment
Consultants (EXERGIA S.A.)
Castilla y Leon Innovation Agency
Athanasopoulou Maria
Jose Diego
Project 2
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
Project 3
Two companies which had indicated an interest to lead a consortium participated in this round table
discussion. Below are presented 1) discussions around the project idea of 1)Thales and 2) Acciona
Project Lead 1
Country of Lead
Thales
France
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
Unnamed city
Cities, software companies and specialists in urban sociology
Patrick.gatellier@thalesgroup.com
Thales has an excessive experience of EU financed projects, Thales is co-ordinating for example the
Future Internet PPP ”Instant mobility”-project. Thales’ main areas of expertise include:
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Urban transportation: planning, simulation, equipment & supervision systems
Urban security: creation and deployment of large security infrastructures in major cities
3D simulation and dynamic simulation of cities. What-if scenarios and tools
Currently Thales is planning a lighthouse project that will facilitate the standardisation of all city
related sources of data (from energy, transportation, waste collection, lightning) using multiple
techniques and making use of dynamic simulation of fluid, equipment and citizens, to better
measure the effective impact of decisions and the multiple alternatives during urban planning.
Full 3D simulation of new cities will be a major mean to optimize new cities and existing cities design
in the future. Such full simulation will have to become smarter and richer as cities will need to share
and mix data from all kind of sources and plan their urbanisation by mixing data from all kind of
stakeholders.
Thales would like to model the system with all its aspects – buildings, people, networks,
communication (3G etc) – all these should provide information that can be used by applications.
Thales will not deal with all the aspects of the Smart Cities initiative; Thales is not dealing with
energy, so the company is looking for partners in this field. The aim of Thales is to show that it is
possible to optimize mobility in a city.
Participants of the round table discussion highlighted their own aims with regard to lighthouse
projects stating the following:
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Mr. Diego de la Hoz from Heritas pointed out that importance of social aspects in Smart
Cities, bringing up their experience from the spin-off of Santander city;
Ms. Júlia López Ventura from Barcelona City Council informed that she is coordinating all
Smart City issues in her municipality and Barcelona would like to participate in a lighthouse
project;
Mr. Korthals Altes from the Technical University of Delft stated that his university could
bring to a lighthouse project urban planning knowledge and 5D;
Mr. François-Xavier presented his company EDF and informed that the company has a staff
of 2000 just in R&D. EDF belives that 3D is very important for a lighthouse project.
Thales is looking for cities and companies to send their expression of interest to join its consortium
prior to the end of 2013, outlining the added value they could bring.
Project Lead 2
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Acciona
Spain
San Sebastian, Spain
At least one (non-Spanish) city with an ambitious urban plan for the
coming years, city planning authorities, industrial partners, and
observer cities.
Contact details
javier.maradaras.adrada@acciona.com
Acciona has a large experience in demonstration projects under Smart Cities and energy efficiency
calls, in coordination and R&D activities, as well as technology integration and exploitation activities.
Acciona is currently involved in the coordination of several European projects related to Smart Cities
approach:
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MEEFS(Coordinator)(EeB.NMP.2011-3) “Multifunctional Energy Efficient Façade System for
Building Retrofitting”; BEEM-UP (Coordinator)(EeB.ENERGY.2010.8.1-2 /FP7) “Building
Energy Efficiency for Massive market Uptake”;
OPENHOUSE (Coordinator) (ENV-2009)“Benchmarking and labeling of the sustainability
performance of buildings”
Furthermore, Acciona is also involved in projects such as:
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STEEP (ENERGY 2012) “Systems Thinking for comprehensive city Efficient Energy Planning”;
R2CITIES (EeB.ENERGY.2012) “Renovation of Residential urban spaces: Towards nearly zero
energy CITIES”;
EINSTEIN(EeB.NMP.2011-2) “Effective INtegration of Seasonal Thermal Energy storage
systems in existing buildings”;
NEWBEE (EeB.NMP.2012-3) “Novel Business model generator for Energy Efficiency in
construction and retrofitting”;
NEED4B (EeB.ENERGY.2011.8.1-1) “New Energy Efficient Demonstration for Buildings”;
PIMES (FP7) - CONCERTO communities towards optimal thermal and electrical efficiency of
buildings and districts, based on microgrids.
Currently, Acciona is planning a lighthouse project with large scale demonstration of replicable SCC
concepts in a city context, where existing near to market technologies focus on the three main
areas: low energy districts, integrated infrastructures and sustainable urban mobility. Acciona
Infrastructure is an internationally recognized benchmark in construction, engineering,
infrastructure management and R&D and Innovation. It has inherited from its founder companies a
legacy of more than a hundred years of experience in construction activities, as well as a philosophy
based on sustainability, quality, innovation and experience.
ACCIONA uses cutting-edge technology to develop and apply the most advanced materials,
components, systems and solutions for sustainability and in particular for energy efficient concepts,
design, construction, operation and recycling of buildings. It applies to new and retrofitted buildings
while preserving a high indoor environment quality. It has its own R&D Technological Centre in
Madrid, composed by a multidisciplinary and international team of about 150 highly qualified
researchers from a wide range of disciplines. Main research areas are Nanotechnology, New
Construction Materials, Products and Systems, ICTs, Energy Efficiency and Environmental
Technologies. It has laboratories of nanotechnology and advanced materials, RES and HVAC
integration in buildings, ICT and augmented reality, chemistry analysis as well as workshops for
prototyping construction components.
In addition to its current partner the city of San Sebastian, Acciona is looking for at least one (nonSpanish) city with an ambitious urban plan, city planning authorities, industrial partners, and
observer cities.
Participants
Name
Region
Javier Mardaras
Philippe FOURNAND
Júlia López Ventura
Gohar Sargsyan
Diego de la Hoz
Menelaos CHATZIAPOSTOLIDIS
Atta Badil
Chirine Etezadzadeh
Gabrielle Hamill
W.K. Korthals Altes
Sergio Cavalieri
Alexandros Kyriakakis
Takis Damaskourolos
Te Tespaw Uaiccant?
Irene Ingardi
Sointu Raisenen
Acciona
Algoé
Barcelona City Council
CGI Group Inc
HERITAS Soluciones Tecnológicas
Municipality of Kavala
University of Reading intelligent systems
laboratory
RheinEnergie AG
Seneca Consultants
TU Delft, OTB
UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO
KEPA
EIIR
EOF R&D
NS CONNECT
East North Finland EU Office
Project 4
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Fundacion CARTIF
Castilla y Leon, Spain
Contact details
Mr. Sergio Sanz, sersan@cartif.es
Municipalities with a clear SEAP and mobility plan, technology
providers with demonstrated experience in smart cities or
concerto/civitas projects
CARTIF is a research institution currently leading several Smart City-projects (R2CITIES and CITyFiED).
CARTIF is also a horizontal center, with expertise in energy, construction, industrial sector, agrofood,
and ICT technologies. CARTIF is planning a project with a development and demonstration of a large
scale methodology for city renovation, including a holistic district retrofitting, a mobility plan and an
ICT platform implementation at city level. This will be done with large scale ICT integration, district
heating and cooling solutions as well as alternative fuel vehicles;
CARTIF has previously worked with the themes of energy efficiency of buildings and the plan is to
coordinate a new project, with urban regeneration in focus;
Mobility-aspects will be crucial in the project; it is difficult to constrain mobility if only a part of the
city is included. If for example public transportation is planned, at least the whole route of the bus
should be included;
CARTIF foresees that the participating cities will use different technologies for example for
retrofitting: it could be an advantage if a combination of technologies will be used in the project,
covering various climatic conditions;
It is also important to indicate what kind of buildings will be targeted; buildings with a historical
status require a different approach and strategy compared to newer buildings;
The project aims to consider financing models carefully, in particular if the ownership of the building
is fragmented (role of municipalities, owners and banks);
CARTIF will emphasize the need for a systematic approach delivering the results. Standardisation of
the results is very important, so that the conclusions can be made from the different ways of
implementation.
Participants
Name
Fabio Boscaleri
Giacomo Piccini
Jaime Pérez-Benavides Acuña
Anton Ianqkiev
Jaques Komornicki
Jaime Robinson
Sergio Sanz
Kjeld B. Olsen
Jose Diego
Organisation
Tuscany Regional Government
Regional Cluster Technologies for Smart
Cities & Communities
Granada Tech City
Notingham Trent Inniverd
European Chemical Council
Scottish Enterprise
CARTIF
North Denmark EU office Aalborg City
Castilla y Leon
Project 5
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
Manchester
UK
Steve Turner s.turner2@manchester.gov.uk
Project proposal starts from a very consolidate structure where Manchester is already acting as
Public Authority by coordinating different initiatives and projects both in planning or implementing
phase. Manchester wants to keep using a holistic approach combining initiatives for Buildings,
Transports, ICT and social interventions.
Manchester is already collaborating with other European Cities in several projects but it’s open to
consider new and different cities for this call in particular cities that could bring big Companies and
SME + Universities in order to create a strong partnership.
Project plan and activities must still be defined but basis are already there and this Call should just
continue what Manchester is already doing. Manchester is open to discuss with partners about how
to plan and integrate activities in order to respond to this call and it’s definitely committed in
presenting a strong proposal.
Participants
Name
Steve Turner
Organisation
Manchester City Council
matthieu Boulard
Ubisoft
Alexis Dousselain
Paris
Peter Easton
Strane Innovation
Charlotte Schlicke
Sibylle Kubale
Stuttgart
Berlin GmbH
Carmencita Constantin
Francesca Ravaioli
Commissariat Général au Développement
Durable
ISPE (Institute for Studies and Power
Engineering)
Comune di Forli
Alanus von Radecki
Fraunhofer
Anne Charreyron-Perchet
Filippo Gasparin
Enel
Anya Margaret Ogorkiewicz
Keryx Group
Virgilio Valvidia Guerrero
Uneted Tech Research Centre Ireland
Paolo Sonvilla
Regis MEYER
Steffen Muller
eclareon
MyCO2 / Collaborativenergy
Ulrich Muller GmbH mit geff
Torsten Raff
Bremen
Alessandra Melchioni Negretti
Bergamo
Project 6
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
Project 7
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
City of Eindhoven
The Netherlands
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Follower cities: from new Member States or from cities
which are different than those of the lead cities. The
number of follower cities is not set (don’t necessarily
need to be 6, like the lead cities).
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Contact details
Companies and technologies that fit together.
Anthony Van de Ven Anthony.vd.ven@eindhoven.nl
The demonstration areas of the 6 lead cities are all different, but also have something in common:
they are all (relatively large) urban areas in need of renovation.
Two interesting companies were participating at the round table: SIEMENS and PHILIPS.
Both presented what they could/would like to offer.
Presentation SIEMENS:
Mr. Randolf Mock presented some interesting ideas/projects/solutions, which SIEMENS could offer
to this project:
First Mr. Mock presented a (preliminary) project proposal, which they have called RetroCity:
Contributions for Retrofit of City Infrastructure. Main objectives of the project: the transition of
inventory buildings resp. districts and existing city infrastructure to meet future requirements
regarding energy and cost efficiency, environmental impact and intermodal mobility + meeting the
societal challenges of urban societies.
Other interesting ideas/projects/solutions presented were:
b Energy Efficiency & Energy Management
Optimization of Energy & Cost Efficiency @ District Level
b Energy Efficiency & Energy Management
Multimodal Energy (WAGES)
b Energy Efficiency & Energy Management
Demo Site Erlangen
b Flywheel Storage:
UPS with High Dynamics for Buildings (storage technologies/solutions)
b Smart Micro-Storage (solutions for households for example)
b Air Quality Gas Sensors
Energy & Cost Optimized HVAC Solutions
b Lighting Efficiency:
LED Lighting with Silent Ultrasonic Cooling
b Sustainable urban mobility
BiDi Chargers for EV2Grid Interaction
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EV Fleet Simulation
Interaction with Grid & Mobility Infrastructure
Inventory of Existing Infrastructure
Efficient 3D Thermal Analysis
City Intelligence Platform
Data Harvesting from 4 Infrastructure Domains (smart building, smart grid, smart mobility,
smart water)
What SIEMENS would like is to demonstrate these ideas in a city, to transfer it to city infrastructure.
Presentation PHILIPS:
PHILIPS already produces LED indoor and outdoor lighting. The added value of these produced by
PHILIPS is that these LEDs are 40 to 70% more energy efficient.
PHILIPS tries to provide energy efficient street lighting, for example with sensors in order to be able
to modify the light (the colour, brightness, etc.) when and where needed, depending on each
situation.
These are things which PHILIPS already does, but the ideas are still innovative to be part of the
project, since they are not yet fully deployed in cities.
Also interesting for PHILIPS would be to integrate lighting services, with other services.
What could PHILIPS add to the project?
b Traffic management: Monitoring the traffic by using lighting to manage the traffic. Therefore
the infrastructure needs to be monitored and data needs to be collected, but by using
lightning, the traffic can be managed and adapted to different situations.
PHILIPS would need a match with ICT organizations which provide these data.
b Energy and utilities  good match with SIEMENS.
IF THERE ARE FOLLOWER CITIES INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING ON THIS PROJECT, PLEASE CONTACT:
Mr. Anthony van de Ven
Participants
Name
Alan R Kell OBE
Alexis CHATZIMPIROS
Anton Ianakiev
Anya Ogorkiewicz
Ben Whiteheouse
Bruno Pedrotti
Chirine Etezadzadeh
Christian Van Parys
Claudio Capiglia
Giacomo Piccini
Graham Floater
Kristýna Bučková
Lucie Stejskalová
Organisation
Intelligent & Green Systems Ltd
Aegean Energy Agency
Nottingham Trent University
The Keryx Group
Southern England Local Partners
Philips
RheinEnergie AG
RVC
Italian Institute of Technology
Regional Cluster Technologies for Smart
Cities & Communities
London School of Economics
Prague Institute of Planning and
Development
Institute for Planning and Development
Magdalena DELUCIS
Algoé
María José Rodríguez Carbajal
Gobierno del Principado de Asturias
Maurizio Trevisan
michaelJohnsson
Mika Kulmala
Pierre Carbonne
Stelian Gal
Rengov
Skane European Office
City of Tampere
Ministry of Industry
Romanian Energy Center
(To be updated)
Project 8
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
E-System
The Netherlands
Rob Lichtman
esysfound@yahoo.com
Project focus:
Mr. Rob Lichtman made clear from the beginning of the dicussion, that he has some ideas, but no
definite or clear final ideas. He wants to use this discussion round to share ideas and thoughts and to
see what comes out.
Persons/ organizations participating at the project table: see signed list of participants.
Mr. Rob Lichtman is not representing the city of Amsterdam; he can’t speak on behalf of the city of
Amsterdam. It’s not sure whether or not the city of Amsterdam is interested in this Smart Cities and
Communities (SCC) call, since they already have a SCC project, called TRANSFORM.
Mr. Rob Lichtman would like to have a very open discussion. He finds it disturbing how the call for
proposals of SCC is set up, how the money is being distributed, the main aims of the call, the focus,
etc. According to him, the money doesn’t go where it should go to.
He also referred to the Strategic Implementation Plan, which according to Mr. Lichtman, doesn’t
articulate the strategy. He said that it’s a compromise.
Not everybody at the table fully agreed with him. An argument against his thoughts was that one
should see it from another angle, looking more from the point of view of impact, so reading it from
another perspective.
One question was why such large-scale projects are needed? A good answer was that it’s needed in
order to align the EIP with real funding in order to get to the right direction, and to scale it up.
After these discussions, Mr. Lichtman started to explain how he sees it, and in what way SCC should
be tackled differently:
We should not focus on SCC as such, but more on local resources and starting with the efficiency
side of things  Energy and water (and waste) efficiency!
Reasons to focus on efficiency:
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Renewables would meet the supply and over-production would be avoided.
b
You can start doing it yourself at home (small-scale!). Smart Grids are not necessarily the
answer, since we don’t even know if it really works.
b
It doesn’t imply such huge investments.
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Savings are made much easier (not return of investments of 10 years, for example).
The focus should be on local capacity (local finance, innovation and technology capacity). Also
important are Public Private Partnerships (PPP) which should be set up to long term local capacity
building.
A good example of this is the Berliner Energieagentur, which is a sort of PPP that is profitable and
really works. It started with EU money many years ago.
Concluding: After this explanation of Mr. Lichtman, it became clear that his ideas and thoughts are
not so different from the ones the European Commission has (through SCC). The major difference is
that SCC focuses more on technology, and Mr. Lichtman proposes to change the emphasis on
building local capacity, starting to work on energy and water efficiency and using the money in a
more strategic way.
Participants
Name
Ángeles Rodríguez-Serrano
Carmencita Constantin
Giacomo Piccini
Maja Ferlinc
Maria Lluïsa Marsal Llacuna
Organisation
AICIA
ISPE (Institute for Studies and Power
Engineering)
Regional Cluster Technologies for Smart
Cities & Communities
Slovenian Business and Research Association
University of Girona
Peter Verboven
Sergio Sanz
Steve Turner
TERRIEN Pascal
Virginia Bombelli
VITO
Fundacion CARTIF
Manchester City Council
EDF – R&D
KOBA
(To be updated)
Project 9
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
Fraunhofer
Germany
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Cities with a SmartCity plan already in place and
ready for implementation.
 Lighthouse cities are envisaged as being mediumsized to facilitate easier measurement.
 They are open-minded regarding follower cities.
Ideally the Fraunhofer Institute would coordinate but they
remain open to offers.
Alanus von Radecki Alanus.radecki@iao.fraunhofer.de
Alanus von Radecki of the Fraunhofer Society presented their proposal. Having conducted in-depth
studies into six metropoles worldwide, the Fraunhofer Society has established a model of how cities
function effectively. This is based on sets of indicators and looks to determine best practice on
issues such as transport.
Having initially conceived of the proposal as research-focussed with the idea of producing roadmaps
for SmartCity projects, the proposal has evolved in line with the action- and technology-orientated
nature of the current round of SmartCities calls. The Fraunhofer Institute is now offering the model,
and the Institute’s expertise, as a tool for cities to apply to their own development.
The discussion was fruitful with lots of interest. Valerie Bahr of Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum expressed
interest in combining the expertise of her organisation in impact-measurement and evaluation.
Stelian Gal of the Romanian Energy Centre expressed interest in partaking as a lighthouse city on
behalf of the city of Timis.
Participants
Name
Alex Serret Garrigues
Alexis CHATZIMPIROS
Andreas Koch
Organisation
Barcelona City Council
Aegean Energy Agency
European Institute for Energy Research –
EIFER
Anya Ogorkiewicz
Ben Whiteheouse
Bernhard ENSINK
Catalina Spataru
Claudio Capiglia
Maurizio Trevisan
Panos COROYANNAKIS
Paolo Sonvilla
Pierre Carbonne
Salvador Rodríguez
Sergio Cavalieri
Stelian Gal
Valerie Bahr
Alexis Dousselain
Remo Zaccaria
Virginia Bombelli
Filippo Gasbamh
Sanna Sebastano
Alanus von Radecki
The Keryx Group
Southern England Local Partners
European Cyclists’ Federation
UCL Energy Institute
Italian Institute of Technology
Rengov
CONFERENCE OF PERIPHERAL & MARITIME
REGIONS OF EUROPE
eclareon
Ministry of Industry
GPTECH
UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO
Romanian Energy Center
Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum
City of Paris
Italian Institute of Technology
KOBA
EMBL
Regione Friuli
Fraunhofer Society
Project 10
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
Tecnalia Research & Innovation
Spain
City of Bilbao
Other city partners and follower cities (Central
European Countries, Nordic countries), Industrial
partners
francisco.rodriguez@tecnalia.com
Tecnalia is the largest private research center in southern Europe, coordinating several Smart cities
projects (SMART CITIES projects ZenN & PITAGORAS/2012 call) and around 200 other FP7 projects;
Tecnalia is an expert of sustainable construction (building & infrastructures), energy generation and
distribution technologies, environment, health and ageing, ICT, industrial processes and
socioeconomic development based on innovation;
Tecnalia can offer an extensive knowledge of EU project management skills and a consortium that
already includes a participating city – Bilbao (Spain), with its demonstration site (built environment
already planned, ICT and transport integration under planning). The presented project is already in
full implementation and fully funded. A dried old river bend is going to be filled with water again,
creating an island inside the city of Bilbao. Nearby, there is a waste burning plant, which is producing
great amounts of waste heat. This waste heat is planned to be used for central heating for the
project-buildings. The heating pipeline is already co-financed by the local industries. In Bilbao, the
demonstration site will be a mixture of new buildings (500 000 square meters) and retrofitting of
existing buildings. It is still to be seen how renewables will be integrated into the demonstration
area. Issues related to legislative framework have already been dealt with;
The roundtable participants stated that transport issues should have a wider dimension and to
various ways of transportation, including car-sharing and car-pooling should be identified. Especially
the ICT-tools are in the key role. Regardless of the solution, these soft measures need to be included
also and support the multimodality in transport;
The consortium is looking for other interested city participants, which have comprehensive plans
and strategic approaches covering all the necessary themes. The other cities of the consortium
should be focused on retrofitting and they should integrate transport and ICT in an innovative way;
Tecnalia will propose, in its project proposal, the adaptation of new business models to the demo
scenarios and potential replication sites.
Participants
Name
Anne Charreyron-Perchet
Michel Heukmes
Pekka Kalenius
Jaime Robinson
Athanasopoulou Maria
Christian Mastradonaio
Francisco Rodriguez
Virgilio Valdiva
Organisation
Commissariat Général au Développement
Durable
CAP 2020
Kymenlaakso University Of Applied Sciences
Scottish Enterprise
EXERGIA Energy and Environment
Consultants (EXERGIA S.A.)
Project 11
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
Acciona - Zaragoza
Spain
Javier Mardaras – javier.maradaras.adrada@acciona.com
ACCIONA is a Constructions Company based in Spain – Zaragoza. They are willing to present a project
proposal and apparently they have good contacts with Zaragoza City Council.
ACCIONA is looking for partners and possibly for a Lead Partner for the project. I the project
proposal they will cover activities concerning Buildings and support Zaragoza in finding other “local”
partners and other cities to collaborate with.
No details about the project proposal itself. Other representants from Bremen, Nottingham, France
and Barcelona showed some interest in keeping contacts with ACCIONA for further information.
Name
Alan R Kell OBE
Anton Ianakiev
Atta Badii
Bruno Pedrotti
Fabio Boscaleri
Gerhard Stryi Hipp
Jens Merten
Júlia López Ventura
Magdalena DELUCIS
Paulo Ferrão
TERRIEN Pascal
W.K. Korthals Altes
Organisation
Intelligent & Green Systems Ltd
Nottingham Trent University
University of Reading
Philips
Tuscany Regional Government
Fraunhofer Insitute for Solar Energy Systems
ISE
CEA
Barcelona City Council
Algoé
IST
EDF – R&D
TU Delft, OTB
(To be updated)
Project 12
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
Granada Tech City
Spain
Jaime Pérez-Benavides Acuña
jaimepbenavides@gmail.com
Transparent data collection and performance measurement to allow comparability and replication
between solutions and best-practice identification.
Focus of the project
The proposal was presented by Jaime Pérez-Benavides Acuña. The aim of the project is twofold,
firstly to create a unique European platform to inform citizens directly about their city
environmental impact and, secondly, to collect opinions about city environment and infrastructure
from the citizens.
The situation that the project wants to change is that all citizens are generating pollution through
everyday actions for example via transportation, however most of the citizens are not used to
actively looking for information about their local environment although citizens have many opinions
about the problems their city has within the environmental domain. Citizens’ opinions are not part
of the process of defining the problem to the decision makers in the cities.
The project wants to create an application/database with the possibility for citizens to have their say
on what needs to be done when it comes to environmental aspects of its own city and the cities they
are visiting. This could be done via the letting citizens have the possibility to rank/vote on how the
city is behaving on a range of environmental aspects. In this way citizens would be part of the local
decision process.
Participants
Name
Elise Steyaert
Ivano Gauna
Organisation
Climate Alliance
CSI
María José Rodríguez Carbajal
Gobierno del Principado de Asturias
Jaime Pérez-Benavides Acuña
Charlotte Schlicke
Michael Johnsson
Granada Tech City
Steinbeis Europa Zentrum
Skåne European Office
Project 13
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
Project 14
Project Lead
Country of Lead
Current partners
Looking for
Contact details
Wolverhampton University
UK
Michael Blowfield m.blowfield@wlv.ac.uk
Project presentation from Wolverhampton:
Michael: University of Wolverhampton: Project to map state of the art and mapping of progress to
identify the “Best practice” or the real level of a Smart City Lighthouse... (could also be part of a
SCC2 project / comment Kjeld) - The mapping and progress mapping should then be input the
naming a real prize winner on EU level based on the survey of who is really the most progressed SCC
- on all areas also others than those included in this Call.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Mikael Edelstam; Skåne/Lund: Interested in inspiration and if Lund is not going to be a SCC,
then the Prize will be very interesting
Sabrina Coccia: Agency specialising in organise promotions activities and events Interested in participating in organising the Prize event
Nathalie Noupadja ; CEMR Lobby organisation interested in project participation /
Knowledge exchange on SCC2 or SCC5 projects.
Gereaud: SME from Santander.
Francesca; Commune di Forli, Going for be Lighthouse or Prize winning city
6. Alexandros; KEPA: Representing companies in Greece, and Thessaloniki, Can bring
companies into projects.
7. Kjeld; NorthDenmark EU office: Representing Aalborg Municipality; Maybe going for being
a Lighthouse
8. Tatiana: Wolverhampton
9. Christian: RVC: SME specialised in making upgrade at meters – to become Smart meters –
without changing the meter. – Interested in project implementation ( - SCC1project/ed.Kjeld)
Participants
Name
Alexandros Kyriakakis
Christian Van Parys
COCCIA Sabrina
Diego de la Hoz
Francesca Ravaioli
Gohar Sargsyan
Mikael Edelstam
Tatiana Panteli
Nathalie Noupadsa
Michael Blowfield
Kjeld B. Olsen
Organisation
Business & Cultural Development Centre
(KEPA)
RVC
SMART METROPOLIS
HERITAS Soluciones Tecnológicas
Comune di Forli
CGI Group Inc
Region Skane
University of Wolverhampton
CENR
Wolverhampton University
North Denmark EU Office Aalborg City