Project description
Building cities healthier and climate neutral
The EU is committed to achieving its ‘Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities’ Mission by accelerating the transition towards climate neutrality in cities. This makes the implementation of positive, clean energy districts (PCEDs) for cities essential. With this in mind, the EU-funded ASCEND project will accelerate the implementation of PCEDs. Specifically, it will deliver two inclusive, affordable PCEDs in Lyon and Munich. The project will scale up solution packages for a large community of cities and investors across Europe. By disseminating its results widely to the smart cities community, ASCEND will make cities healthier, inclusive and climate neutral. It will speed up and scale up the deployment of cost effective PCEDs solutions and bring about a PCEDs replication wave in eight partnering cities.
Objective
"ASCEND (Accelerate positive Clean Energy Districts) seeks to accelerate the implementation of positive, clean energy districts (PCED) for cities’ transition toward climate neutrality and social justice across Europe. ASCEND will:
- Deliver two inclusive, affordable PCEDs in Lyon and Munich;
- Successfully ""bootstrap"" implementation of PCEDs in the Multiplier Cities of Alba Iulia (RO), Budapest (HU), Charleroi (BE), Prague (CZ), Porto (PT), Stockholm (SE);
- Scale-up solution packages for a large community of cities and investors across Europe;
- Disseminate our results widely to the smart cities community.
Our overarching goals are to i) Make cities healthier, inclusive and climate-neutral; ii) Speed up and scale up the deployment of cost-effective PCEDs solution packages.
“Getting PCEDs done” across Europe entails the following actions for ASCEND:
First, large-scale demonstrations in Lighthouse Cities (LHCs), using existing knowledge built by generation of Smart Cities Projects, offering well-proven and cost-effective solutions packages, scalable by design to cities across Europe.
Second, developing our solutions packages across the entire life of the district: from design to implementation and maintenance, performances must be maintained and increased thanks to an urban orchestrator aiming to coordinate the ecosystem in the long run.
Third, creating a PCEDs replication wave during ASCEND in our eight partnering cities by iterating between the development of solutions packages and deployment in LHCs and Multiplier cities (MCs) during the project and not after. MCs will achieve impact by bootstrapping their PCEDs during the project.
Finally, triggering a PCED wave through outcome-driven collaboration with EC initiatives, such as Climate-Neutral and Smart City Mission, Covenant of Mayor, Smart Cities Marketplace, Scalable cities but also with the deployment of City Alliances in the eight cities, targeting small cities, not used to European projects."
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
69003 Lyon
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Participants (39)
69003 Lyon
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69205 Lyon Cedex 01
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69006 Lyon
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69002 Lyon
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26160 PONT DE BARRET
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80331 Munchen
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81671 Muenchen
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81739 MUNCHEN
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80992 Munchen
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69251 Gaiberg
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80333 Muenchen
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80636 MUNCHEN
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04860 Torgau
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81379 Munchen
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85748 Garching
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510134 Alba Iulia
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6000 Charleroi
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6000 Charleroi
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4000 270 Porto
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4300-367 Porto
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4150 417 Porto
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4000 538 Porto
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160 00 Praha
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170 00 PRAHA
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110 00 Praha 1
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1052 Budapest
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1075 Budapest
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25000 Besancon
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105 35 Stockholm
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1210 Wien
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47151 Boecillo
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4365 ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE
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69006 Lyon
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10781 BERLIN
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33100 Udine
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909 01 Skalica
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06330 Roquefort Les Pins
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27100 Pavia
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Partners (1)
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9000 St Gallen
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