Smart Cities and Communities: ERRIN and Smart City Stakeholder
Platform brokerage event
13 December 2013
From 9 AM to 5 PM
VLEVA offices (Liaison Agency Flanders-Europe)
Kortenberglaan 71, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Please return your completed registration form to members@errin.eu
Please note that sending the registration form does not guarantee
participation – participation is guaranteed only once you have received an
email confirming your participation
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Morning information session (open to all)
09:00
Registration
09:30
Welcome and Introduction
Andreea Strachinescu, EC,
DG Energy, Unit C2 - New
energy technologies,
innovation and clean coal,
Head of Unit
Richard Tuffs – Director,
ERRIN
09:40
Presentation of the Smart Cities & Communities call
Norela Constantinescu, EC,
DG Energy, Unit C2 - New
energy technologies,
innovation and clean coal
Lighthouse projects
10:00
Low energy / energy neutral districts
Alexandros Kotronaros, EC,
DG Energy, Unit C2 - New
energy technologies,
innovation and clean coal
10:15
Integrated infrastructures
Jean Marie Bemtgen/Jose
Riesgo Villanueva, EC, DG
Energy, Unit C2 - New
energy technologies,
innovation and clean coal
10:30
Sustainable mobility
Henriette van Eijl, EC, DG
MOVE, Unit C2, Research
and Innovative Transport
Systems
10:45
Enabling the rollout of the Smart Cities solutions
Sven Dammann, EC, DG
Energy, Unit C2 - New
energy technologies,
innovation and clean coal
11.00
Questions
11:45
Smart cities and Smart Specialization – the link with the ESIF,
European Commission - DG REGIO
12:00
Questions
12:15
Presentation of key points of Strategic Implementation Plan
Andreea Strachinescu
12:30
Presentation of Stakeholder Platform Working Groups,
Stakeholder Platform Members
Jorge Nunez Ferrer,
Associate Research Fellow,
CEPS
12:45
Questions
13:00
Networking Lunch
Katja Reppel / Corinne
Hermant de Calattay, DG
REGIO, Unit G2,
Competence Centre Smart
and Sustainable Growth
Afternoon brokerage session – limited to participants intending to submit a
project proposal and those who express their interest in participating in the
development of the proposed project ideas at the brokerage event
14:00
Organisation of two series of discussion tables with a coffee
break in-between

Owners of relevant solutions from the Stakeholder
Platform participate in selected discussion tables, to
facilitate match-making

Experts from the European Commission are available
during the sessions for feedback to pressing questions
and on the direction of individual project proposals

Stakeholders will be asked to provide detail of their
expertise and the project they are interested to
lead/participate in
Information on the registration process and deadlines
Those who would only like to register for the morning information session:
Deadline for registrations is the 11th of December.
Those who would like to register for the afternoon brokerage session, during which project
proposals will be discussed and developed:
1. Stage one: Deadline for registering for the event, as a prospective project leader or as a
project partner, is Monday the 2nd of December.
2. Second stage: those who have registered for the afternoon brokerage event and have listed
their project idea, will be contacted by the event organiser by the 4th of December. The
collected project ideas will be listed according to the themes by the event organiser and
round-tables will be organised. Registered participants will be contacted and they will be
allocated to specific round-tables by the 11th of December.
Spaces are limited - we encourage you to register as soon as possible!
Please return your completed registration form to members@errin.eu
Photography and filming might be carried out by the event organiser. By entering the event area, you
give consent to the organiser to be filmed and photographed. The media materials could be printed,
published on-line or broadcasted for non-commercial purposes.
Participant registration form
Name:
Position:
Organisation:
Region:
Type of organisation [please tick one]:
Public
Private
-
If private, SME
Academic/research
Other, please specify
Email:
I will attend [check box where appropriate]:
Introduction session
Brokerage session
Lunch
Short description of organisation [max. 2 lines]:
Main areas of expertise [max. 4 lines]:
Telephone:
The information hereunder should only be completed if you would like to attend the
afternoon brokerage event, where project proposals will be discussed and further developed
I will participate as [PLEASE TICK ONLY ONE BOX]:
A prospective project leader
A prospective project participant
[Expected] Call topics of interest [Final work programme to be published 11 December 2013]:
NB: SELECT ONE TOPIC UNDER EACH SESSION. For more information on expected call topics, please
see the end of this form
Brokerage session Round 1 [SELECT ONE TOPIC ONLY]:
SCC 1 – 2014/2015 Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT
sectors through lighthouse (large scale demonstration – first of the kind) projects
SCC 2 – 2014 Developing a framework for common, transparent data collection and performance
measurement to allow comparability and replication between solutions and best-practice
identification
SCC 3 – 2015: Development of system standards for smart cities and communities solutions
SCC 4 – 2014: Establishing networks of public procurers in local administrations on smart city
solutions
SCC 5 – 2014: Establishing a challenge prize competition: Smart solutions for creating better
cities and communities
Brokerage session Round 2 [SELECT ONE TOPIC ONLY]:
SCC 1 – 2014/2015 Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT
sectors through lighthouse (large scale demonstration – first of the kind) projects
SCC 2 – 2014 Developing a framework for common, transparent data collection and performance
measurement to allow comparability and replication between solutions and best-practice
identification
SCC 3 – 2015: Development of system standards for smart cities and communities solutions
SCC 4 – 2014: Establishing networks of public procurers in local administrations on smart city
solutions
SCC 5 – 2014: Establishing a challenge prize competition: Smart solutions for creating better
cities and communities
Short description of project idea [max. 10 lines]:
Please give brief answers to the following questions for your project idea [max. 2 lines/question]
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b
b
b
b
How do intend to address the three broad main themes listen in the call in an integrated
manner?
Have you an indication of the technology fields you intend to address in the project
How do you intend to address the replication demands of the call
Have you any relevant EU project experience, such as CIVITAS or CONCERTO
Are you planning to develop innovative financial models in the context of the project
Partner profile(s) you are seeking:
Any specific countries/regions/cities you are keen to collaborate with:
Any specific technologies / businesses / business sectors you are keen to collaborate with:
Please return your completed form to members@errin.eu