Objective
STEP-UP - brings together excellence on energy planning from Glasgow; Ghent; Riga; and Gothenburg – 4 ambitious, northern European, historic, port cities together with their industrial and research partners.
The initiative is supported at the highest political level in all 4 cities – and city leaders will be active in the project throughout its life, ensuring it delivers its objectives, and has clear and significant impact in the partner cities and beyond.
STEP-UP takes an integrated approach to energy planning, integrated project design, and implementation by addressing 3 vital themes together: energy and technology; economics; organisation and stakeholders.
STEP-UP partner cities will significantly enhance their Covenant of Mayors Strategic Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) to tackle all three Europe 2020 energy targets: energy efficiency / energy reduction; growth of renewable energy; carbon emissions reduction.
STEP-UP will draw on the partner cities’ experience of integrated energy planning, and will build on this through learning and adapting experience from other cities and partners to create a coherent and easy-to-use model for energy planning. This model will be adopted in multiple cities to deliver faster and greater impacts for Europe’s 2020 energy targets – and wider policy objectives such as improving security of energy supplies, urban regeneration, economic growth, and tackling fuel poverty – making these cities better places to live, work, learn, and do business.
Key deliverables are:
An integrated model for delivering ambitious realistic integrated SEAPs;
Enhanced SEAPs in all partner cities;
Innovative energy projects in all partner cities that integrate different technologies and stakeholders;
A learning network of cities to replicate this action across Europe;
Work with the Central Party School to replicate this model in China;
Training programmes for professionals
A new Masters Course on Sustainable city planning and implementation.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-ENERGY-SMARTCITIES-2012
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Funding Scheme
CSA-CA - Coordination (or networking) actionsCoordinator
G1 1XQ Glasgow
United Kingdom
Participants (11)
8003 Goteborg
9090 Melle
G2 1DU Glasgow
9000 Gent
411 13 Goteborg
1539 Riga
1658 Riga
G2 8SP Glasgow
501 15 Boras
Riga
2400 Mol
