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Stad Gent
Botermarkt 1
9000 Gent
BELGIUM
What do we want to do?
Project title - Acronym
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Call incl. reference no.
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(Expression of Interest)
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Description of project idea:
theme, objectives and
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Stad Gent – Strategische Subsidies
(TBC)
Title should reflect the following:
With this project, the City of Ghent / the consortium wants to
demonstrate the necessity of combining several innovative
technological solutions to implement a circular economy and 100%
sustainability including energy neutrality, for optimal efficiency in a
diverse urban texture and a context of extremely fragmented
ownership.
Horizon 2020 – Societal Challenges
Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy
Funding Scheme: Innovation Actions
SCC1-2015: Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating
energy, transport, ICT sectors through lighthouse (large scale
demonstration - first of the kind) projects.
DG Research & Innovation
EOL:
30 Nov 2014
Application:
5 May 2015
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppor
tunities/h2020/topics/2148-scc-01-2015.html
Local lighthouse project area
The Ghent demonstration area consists of some adjacent districts,
covering an area of ca. 3.7 km². It comprises hardly 2.4 % of the
city’s total surface, but represents 7.6 % of its houses and dwellings,
and 8.6 % of its population. The area’s average Prosperity Index
score is only 64 (given Belgium = 100, Ghent = 107), and more then
40% of the houses show low or very low comfort.
By introducing some new housing areas in brownfield zones, or
tearing down old social housing blocks and replacing them by new
ones, applying low & sustainable energy standards, the city wants to
initiate an accelerated transition to a carbon free community.
Two adjacent core projects (350-400 dwellings + public facilities
each; fact sheets in annex), both starting construction in 2015, offer
excellent opportunities to demonstrate innovative energy and
mobility solutions to build climate neutral districts, using high
standard technology. Involvement of several local research
institutions (a.o. university of Ghent) and their spin offs is
guaranteed.
There is a high multiplicator potential in the surrounding quarters in
all directions, as well as in other parts of the city.
Both core projects show a strong focus on citizen participation &
involvement.
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Demonstrated innovative solutions will be:
• Local energy production (heat pumps & CHP) from faeces/grey
water
• Closed circuits for waste water, showing how waste water
treatment can be turned into resource management
• Smart metering and smart grids (balancing supply and demand)
• open architecture district heating grid
• integrating waste heat from industrial plants in the Port of Ghent
to housing districts
• showing how shifting electricity energy demand into heat energy
demand can contribute to a higher level of systainability
• intelligent sustainable mobility (car & bicycle sharing, public
transport facilities, electric vehicles)
• Nutrient recovery in the cities (the phosphorus challenge,
struvite as a slow fertilizer for the local city gardens)
• Fiber to the home & community building software applications
• LED public lighting (energy efficiency)
A preliminary feasibility study is currently on the way to harness the
assumptions and variables of a business plan for part of the
lighthouse project.
Educational centre for sustainable circular economy
To enhance the demonstrative character of the project, we want to
build on site an educational centre, showing:
• The problem: energy/waste/Water/climate change
• Sustainable solutions & the role of innovative science/technology
• What are we doing in Ghent?
• What are other cities in Europe doing (project partnership
including follower cities)
• What are Europe’s objectives and actions?
• What can you do?
What are the financial
conditions of participation?
Stad Gent – Strategische Subsidies
Topics for knowledge exchange & co-operation with partner cities
1. Must have:
• On-site renewable energy production, preferably through large
scale circular waste/water circuits
• Intelligent sustainable mobility
• Citizen involvement through ICT
• Smart metering & monitoring
• Educational program & centre
2. Desired:
• Legal constraints against implementation & a vision on how to
change it
• Hot fill machines technology
• Citizen involvement: sensitization - how to incentivize, change
behavior and make best use of new technology?
3. Optional
• solutions for shifting from fossil to renewable energy supply in
district heating & guarantee stable supply
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution
from the EU of between EUR 18 to 25 million would allow this
specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.
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Foreseen project duration
Partner consortium
(so far: the local &
international consortia are
still under construction =>
* = TBC )
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In a consortium with 3 lighthouse cities and 3 follower cities, this
could result in ca. 6.000.000 € per lighthouse city (local consortium)
and ca. 600.000 € per follower city. An extra project management
budget should be allocated to the lead partner.
01/01/2016 – 31/12/2019 (+ 2 years monitoring)
GHENT
Public
 City of Ghent
 SOGent
 Ivago/WaterLink*
 Digipolis Gent
Private
 DuCoop cvba
 Schipperskaai
Development cvba
 Tondelier
Development NV*
 IMEWO*
 iMinds*
Research
 Ghent University*
Lighthouse
City 2
Lighthouse
City 3
Follower 1
Follower 2
Follower 3
Further partners being
sought: what type of
partner, which roles in the
project?
The City of Ghent and its local partners want to act as a lighthouse
project.
 We look for 2 other cities who are in the process of building a
similar local consortium for a similar lighthouse project. District
developments must be planned and budgetted already.
 We look for sevral follower cities who are planning to have
similar projects and are interested in applying the technology
demonstrated in the lighthouse projects. (follower cities)
 Lead role to be discussed in the consortium. The City of Ghent is
willing to take the lead, but is equally happy to leave this task to
a partner city.
Who are we?
Name of the organization
City/region and country
Type of organisation
Website
PIC (Participant
Identification Code)
Contact person & data
Role in the organisation
Experience in European
projects
Stad Gent – Strategische Subsidies
Stad Gent / City of Ghent
Belgium (Province of East-Flanders)
Public Authority - Local Government
Official: www.gent.be
Tourism: www.visitghent.be
Demonstration projects: Schipperskaai and Tondelier
998945771
Krist Poffyn (Mr.)
Krist.poffyn@gent.be
+32 9 266 82 00
Strategy & Co-ordination – Strategic Funding
• Ghent is already involved in the FP7 Smart Cities & Communities
project STEP UP: Strategies Towards Energy performance and
Urban Planning. (2012-2015)
• Ghent was or is partner in numerous other European projects,
within different funding programs. Projects tackling smart city
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themes are:
o Civitas-ELAN
o Interreg: MUSIC, ACE
o CIP-ICT: SMART-IP, Citadel…on the move
Annexes
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Ghent project area map
Fact sheet DuCoop cvba & Schipperskaai Development cvba
Fact sheet Tondelier Development NV (under construction)
Expression of Interest
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Ghent project area map
Tondelier
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Schipperskaai
Project area (yellow)
Two core projects with high multiplicator potential: 350-400 dwellings + public facilities each,
both starting construction in 2015:
1. Schipperskaai
2. Tondelier
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Fact sheet DuCoop cvba & Schipperskaai Development cvba
Ghent - Project The Old Docks - phase 1: Handelsdok Oost, Schipperskaai
DRAFT 01-09-2014
The challenges towards a circular economy in European Smart Cities & Communities
The Belgian city of Ghent as a lighthouse, leading the way in energy systems, mobility and urban ICT
Facing an organic growth of the city population, the city of Ghent is converting previous industrial
sites into lively residential areas. Along the old docks, the city landscape will be subject to a real
metamorphosis. This turnaround offers a unique opportunity for sustainable urban redevelopment.
The sustainable urban redevelopment will be a large scale demonstration (400 to 1.500 homes) and
aims to set a new future-oriented standard on sustainability in cities, with a focus on circular
economy. The applied systems are innovative but easy to replicate.
The project aims for a close implication of the community. All inhabitants will become members of
and benefit from a cooperative structure that will run the sustainability services. Living in the
Schipperskaai will be fun, entail lively interactions and is supported by an on-going learning process.
An education and visitor centre will demonstrate to visitors the added value of circular economy in
cities.
1. Innovative urban energy systems through a circular approach on energy, water and nutrients
The project aims to make a new district 100% energy neutral – a decarbonised energy system - and
thereby contributes to the ambition of a future climate neutrality of the city of Ghent.
The low energy and passive houses and apartments will use 100% renewable energy. Human faeces,
waste water and food waste will be collected to be transformed into energy, fertilisers and clean
water. CHP and heat pumps will generate sustainable thermal energy for the district heating system.
Phosphorus is recycled from the sludge and will be used for urban agriculture. Used water is treated
and reused, closing another loop. A private electric smart grid is installed with locally produced
renewable energy, feeding collective energy demand and electric cars and bikes charging points.
The energy demand will be further reduced through the promotion of hot fill dishwashers, washing
machines and tumble dryers.
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Sustainable urban transport and mobility
The site is unlocked by a wide range of public transport facilities including train, busses and
lightrail. The infrastructures as well as the buildings are well equipped for pedestrians and
bikes, with a special focus on children’s safety. Car sharing will be encouraged as the use of a
private car is no longer a necessity. Parking lots can therefore be reduced in size. Also, a
parking lot does not contain privatised parking spaces but parking space which is to be used
in a flexible way by both inhabitants as well as visitors. Electric car and bike charging facilities
are available in every parking lot and are connected to the private electric smart grid, thus
playing a role in regulating the energy supply in the district. Every inhabitant of the
Schipperskaai will have access to a sophisticated but easy to use mobility planning software
application, allowing them to choose the best transport mode in relation to their transport
need.
3.
Integrated solutions and ICT
The urban plan integrates building planning, the decarbonised smart energy network,
transport planning and performance monitoring. The grid will supervise intelligent systems
for heating, cooling and lighting. ICT systems will overview energy demand, sustainable
energy production (solar, wind, CHP, heat pumps) and storage (car batteries, hydrogen or
heat), minimising dependency of external supply and costs.
A communication platform will be available for the inhabitants, allowing initially for
interaction on how residents experience the community, the sustainability of the district, for
crowd sourcing and mobility planning. The platform can easily further be developed by the
residents for other needs or applications.
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Fact sheet Tondelier Development NV (under construction)
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