Project description
POCITYF – a positive city transformation framework, towards smarter and greener cities
The key to making cities safer, greener and more responsive to the needs of their citizens, businesses and organisations is to add layers of smartness as regards infrastructures, technologies and services. The EU-funded POCITYF project will deliver a set of positive energy blocks in the lighthouse cities of Alkmaar (Netherlands) and Évora (Portugal), and their fellow cities Hvidovre (Denmark), Ioannina (Greece), Ujpest (Hungary), Bari (Italy), Celje (Slovenia), and Granada (Spain). These blocks refer to a limited and socially well-embedded geographic area where the average local renewable generation exceeds its consumption. POCITYF aims to transform these cities’ mixed-urban environments, with a strong emphasis on cultural and historical protected areas, into healthier and more accessible, reliable and competitive spaces for their citizens with a strong emphasis on cultural and historical protected areas.
Objective
"POCITYF supports the Lighthouse cities of Evora (PT) and Alkmaar (NL) and their Fellow cities Granada (ES), Bari (), Celje (SI), Ujpest (HU), Ioannina (GR) and Hvidovre (DK) to address their urgent need to deliver positive energy blocks and districts in their cities, towards rendering their mixed urban environment (also including the case of cultural protected buildings) into cheaper, better accessible, healthier and more reliable. By demonstrating in overall 10 integrated solutions (ISs), comprising 73 individual innovative elements (technologies, tools, methods), rooted under existing City Information Platforms (CIPs), POCITYF quantifies their value, and connects interests of many different stakeholders in innovative business models, allowing for upscale and replication of those solutions in a form of a validated roadmap for sustainable cities across Europe and world-wide. To achieve this, POCITYF works along 4 Energy Transition Tracks (ETTs), encompassing the ISs according to the role each one serves for. ETT#1 focuses on the examination and application of ISs transforming existing and new building stock into Energy Positive, while ETT#2 focuses on the application of a) grid flexibility strategies and b) storage systems, supported by DSM platforms for optimizing energy flows to maximize self-consumption and reduce grid stress. ETT#3 with its merit of innovation offers the integration of e-Mobility to as well promote the decarbonisation of the mobility sector. The 3 ETTs under the coordination of ETT#4, which links existing CIPs with innovative apps and other instruments, offers inclusive and holistic services for interdisciplinary citizen engagement and co-creation of them with the city stakeholders and industry, towards the development of each citys own bold city-vision up to 2050. Through POCITYF the two LHs will achieve a local RES penetration of 16.2 GWh/y, energy savings of 2.32 GWh/y and an emission reduction of 9,743 tons CO2eq/y within their districts."
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Participants (48)
7000-506 Evora
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2829-516 Caparica
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7000 803 Evora
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3800 075 Aveiro
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7005 841 EVORA
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24040 Stezzano (Bg)
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7005 841 Evora
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4470-177 Maia
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4451-801 Leca Da Palmeira
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4464-503 Senhora Da Hora
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05004 Avila
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31029 Vittorio Veneto Treviso
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31029 Vittorio Veneto
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14167 Berlin
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34100 Chalkida
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4200 465 Porto
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1815 AG Alkmaar
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9747AG Groningen
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2509 CN Den Haag
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1812RD Alkmaar
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2595 DA Den Haag
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1823 DL Alkmaar
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1811 AM Alkamaar
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1841JK Stompetoren
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1213 VB Hilversum
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6812 AH Arnhem
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9865BL Opende
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18071 Granada
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18014 Granada
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08018 Barcelona
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70122 Bari
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70121 Bari
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3000 Celje
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1000 Ljubljana
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1041 Budapest 04. Ker. Ujpest
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2000 Szentendre
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45221 Ioannina
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2650 Hvidovre
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8000 Aarhus C
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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02150 Espoo
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26900 Lodi
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16129 Genova
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50018 Zaragoza
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1210 Wien
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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3011 Bern
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9712CP Groningen
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