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SMARTER TOGETHER

Grant agreement ID: 691876

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 February 2016
End date

31 January 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.1.3.

Overall budget:

€ 30 308 982,84
EU contribution

€ 24 742 978,64

Coordinated by:

LYON CONFLUENCE

France

Objective

SMARTER TOGETHER’s overarching vision is to find the right balance between smart technologies and organizational/ governance dimensions in order to deliver smart and inclusive solutions and to improve citizen’s quality of life.
SMARTER TOGETHER gather the European Lighthouse cities Lyon, Munich, Vienna, the Follower cities Santiago de Compostela, Sofia, Venice and Kyiv and Yokohama as observer cities bringing the perspective of East Europe and Asia. The cities are complemented by business partners from energy, mobility and ICT sectors, leading European research and academia organizations, european city network. From the various combinations of the different selected Light House areas, multiples opportunities to learn are offering.
SMARTER TOGETHER delivers 5 clusters of co-created, smart and integrated solutions: (1) Living labs for citizen engagement, (2) District heating and RES for low energy districts, (3) Holistic refurbishment for low energy districts addressing public and private housing, (4) Smart Data management platform and smart services (5) E-mobility solutions for sustainable mobility.
Expected results are: 1) >151,800 m2 of refurbished buildings, primarily housing estate with a 50-60 % average energy and CO2 reduction; 2) 14.6 MW of newly installed renewable capacity; 3) 10/15new e-mobility solutions for passengers and freight); 4) 1400 created jobs, 130 M€ investments, all deployed with support of integrated ICT solutions and in dialogue with the inhabitants.

Large-scale replication will be prepared; 1) in the Lighthouse cities; 2) the Follower cities, which already selected their target area; 3) A Club of 15-20 cities, associate to intensify its roll-out, ensuring a broad geographical and climate coverage. Commercial exploitation is enhanced by the development of new business models for widespread use by the stakeholders. Contributions to open data are expected to create business opportunities as well as inputs to standardization work.

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.3.3.1.3. - Foster European Smart cities and Communities

Topic(s)

SCC-01-2015 - Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT sectors through lighthouse (large scale demonstration - first of the kind) projects

Call for proposal

H2020-SCC-2015

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Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

Coordinator

LYON CONFLUENCE

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Rue Du Lac 20
69003 Lyon

France

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

EU Contribution

€ 4 484 766,06

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Participants (33)

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METROPOLE DE LYON

France

EU Contribution

€ 911 148,88

HESPUL ASSOCIATION

France

EU Contribution

€ 1 750 125

TOSHIBA SYSTEMES FRANCE SAS

France

EU Contribution

€ 80 482,50

ENEDIS

France

EU Contribution

€ 322 161,88

ENERTECH

France

EU Contribution

€ 221 418,75

LANDESHAUPTSTADT MUENCHEN

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 2 823 833,75

bettervest GmbH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 98 350

Wolfram Scholl

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 102 541,25

SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 385 862,93

SPECTRUM MOBIL GMBH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 194 687,50

SECURITAS ALERT SERVICES GMBH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 575 000

STADT WIEN

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 2 970 032,50

BWS GEMEINNUTZIGE ALLGEMEINE BAU-,WOHN UND SIEDLUNGSGENOSSENSCHAFT, REGISTRIERTE GENOSSENSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 1 882 010

WIENER STADTWERKE GMBH

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 964 920,10

KELAG WARME GMBH

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 179 236,75

SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT OESTERREICH

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 260 450

SYCUBE INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIE GMBH

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 267 837,50

OSTERREICHISCHE POST AG

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 224 787,50

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 1 548 692,50

AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 941 189,06

ENERGY CITIES/ENERGIE-CITES ASSOCIATION

France

EU Contribution

€ 304 062,50

GOPA COM.

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 494 112,50

UNIVERSITAET ST. GALLEN

Switzerland

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 474 087,50

DIN DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FUER NORMUNG E.V.

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 175 980

ALGOE SA

France

EU Contribution

€ 483 973,88

CONCELLO DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 304 375

STOLICHNA OBSHTINA

Bulgaria

EU Contribution

€ 216 312,50

COMUNE DI VENEZIA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 318 000

SOCIETE ANONYME REGIONALE D'HABITATIONS A LOYER MODERE DE LYON

France

EU Contribution

€ 450 000

WAVESTONE ADVISORS

France

EU Contribution

€ 81 406,25

WOHNUNGSEIGENTUMERGEMEINSCHAFT RADOLFZELLER STRASSE 40-46

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 125 342

WOHNUNGSEIGENTUMERGEMEINSCHAFT WIESENTHAUERSTRASSE 16

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 125 792,10

Project information

SMARTER TOGETHER

Grant agreement ID: 691876

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 February 2016
End date

31 January 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.1.3.

Overall budget:

€ 30 308 982,84
EU contribution

€ 24 742 978,64

Coordinated by:

LYON CONFLUENCE

France

Project information

SMARTER TOGETHER

Grant agreement ID: 691876

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 February 2016
End date

31 January 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.1.3.

Overall budget:

€ 30 308 982,84
EU contribution

€ 24 742 978,64

Coordinated by:

LYON CONFLUENCE

France

Periodic Reporting for period 3 - SMARTER TOGETHER (Smart and Inclusive Solutions for a Better Life in Urban Districts)

Reporting period: 2018-08-01 to 2019-07-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

Sustainable development builds on people in integrated, inclusive societies that develop in partnership and foster dialogue among all parties – being ‘smarter together’. It equally builds on modern technologies and constant innovation as key ingredient at the service of people, societal development and economic transformation. SMARTER TOGETHER shares this fundamental values and philosophy and brings together the European Lighthouse cities Lyon, Munich and Vienna as well as the Follower cities Santiago de Compostela, Sofia and Venice. With Kyiv and Yokohama also two observer cities are on board and bring in the perspective of cities from East Europe and Asia.
SMARTER TOGETHER’s overarching vision is to find the right balance between smart technologies on the one hand and organisational and governance dimensions on the other in order to deliver smart and inclusive solutions and to improve citizen’s quality of life.

“The idea of smart cities is intriguing – but a lot of that smartness will emerge as a side effect of the changing everyday behaviors of citizens. … When citizens turn smart, so will the cities they inhabit” (Ericsson ConsumerLab : 10 hot consumer trends 2015).

SMARTER TOGETHER will deliver 5 clusters of co-created and replicable integrated smart solutions: (1) Living labs for citizen engagement, (2) Holistic refurbishment for low energy districts addressing public as well as private housing, (3) District heating and renewable energies for low energy districts, (4) Smart Data management platform and smart services for integrated infrastructures and (5) E-mobility solutions for sustainable mobility.
The demonstrations in the three Lighthouse cities are stimulated by local Urban Living Labs and are embedded in substantial collective cross-cities peer-to-peer learning, and intensive replication and dissemination efforts to maximize the project’s impacts.

The proposed solutions are expected to result in:
▪ > 151 800 m2 of refurbished housing estate, mostly social housing, with an energy and CO2 reduction of > 50%;
▪ 14,6 MW of newly installed renewable capacity in the districts;
▪ 10 to 15 new e-mobility solutions – for passengers as well as freight,
▪ An overall CO2 reduction of > 60 %
▪ 130 million EUR investments in the Lighthouse areas
▪ Creating 1,400 new jobs only from the investments in the buildings sector.

All deployed with support of integrated ICT solutions and in dialogue with the tenants and residents.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The first 42 months of SMARTER TOGETHER have been dedicated to the following activities:

▪ Setting up the transversal tools and activities to provide the framework, knowledge base, management tools and peer-to-peer exchange process (WP1-2-10).
Main achievements are : i) the Project Wiki gathering all best practices and thematic recommendations on key topics for smart cities (WP1); ii) the design of Knowledge Carrier and thematic Project books (WP2) gathering and visually displaying the knowledge produced on the smart city solutions implemented ; iii) ; viii) the tools and procedures for overall project management and the collaboration between the LightHouse City Projects.(WP10).

▪ Preparing and rolling out the implementation activities scheduled in demonstration workpackages (WP3-4-5). The focus has been made on creating the proper conditions to secure all the operations foreseen in each WP. The consortium has been able to engage the implementation of most of demonstration activities foreseen in each thematic task (citizen engagement, low-energy district, integrated infrastructure and services, sustainable mobility, monitoring and evaluation, preparation of replication phase).
Main achievements are : i) the reaching of over 30000 citizens with 22 co-creation activities, ii) the commitment of about 91% of the expected stock of m² to refurbishment projects and delivery of 8 refurbished buildings, iii) the connection of over +150% of the promised m² to the district heating systems and the implementation of smart energy infrastructure leading towards +20% of targeted supplementary RES installed capacity, iv) the commissioning of Interoperable, non-vendor lock-in ICT platforms in all three LHC (successful public-private partner cooperation in Lyon and Munich, open-source FIWARE-based platform in Vienna) and the signature of data-sharing agreements with providers; v) the deployment of 112% of the e-vehicles and nearly 135% of promised charging stations generating consequent reduction of CO2 emission.

▪ Preparing the monitoring and evaluation, engaging the replication process, disseminating and communicating the results of the project (WP6-7-8-9). Particularly, the monitoring infrastructure is up and working in LHC, collecting live data and integrating it in data platforms. The Follower cities have developped their Integrated Replication Strategies and are ready to roll out over 160 M€ of investments in smart city solutions and infrastructure.
Main achievements: i) the common set of KPI for monitoring and process evaluation & Data Management Plan (WP6), ii) Replication Strategies in all Follower cities (WP7); iii) Replication Frameworks in Lighthouse cities, business models guidelines, standardization of two co-created solutions and participation in the Club of cities (WP8); iv) communication tools and activities and intense dissemination of results (WP9); v) development of an Exploitation plan.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

So far, we are on line with our key objectives.

LARGE SCALE DEMONSTRATION: Refurbishment works are well advanced with 91% of the expected stock of m² to be refurbished already secured, including a diverse building portfolio in terms of ownership, use and age. New buildings are still expected to join the portfolio.

USER-CENTRIC INNOVATION: The full association of all stakeholders has been achieved thanks to the three Urban Living Labs. Co-creation activities with the population have been extremely productive, delivering promising results in terms of best practices and insights on citizen participation, co-creation, user-centric business model, etc. The citizen engagement and user-centric approach will be a corner stone of our replication strategy.

LOW ENERGY DISTRICT APPROACH: Implementation of PV systems in the three lighthouse cities is now reaching 600% of the RES capacity targeted with 92 MW to be produced.

NEXT GENERATION DISTRICT HEATING: The three cities have the objectives to use their district heating systems as providers of renewable energy sources (wood, geothermal, solar thermal). Smart energy infrastructures have been implemented (district heating and electric grid) in Lyon, a new geothermal based heating plant is connected to the local district heating system in Munich, an alternative data center is ongoing in Vienna.

CITIZEN-ORIENTED DATA PLATFORMS: Our approach to develop 3 dataplatform led by the cities as the trustworthy partner will likely give rise to a multi-stakholder governance approach (players will be more willing to handover data if they trust the intermediary) and to new services based on the combinations of data not available so far and targeting citizens, cities department (energy efficiency, monitoring etc.).

E-MOBILITY INTEGRATION: The deployment of mobility services is almost finalized in the three cities, reaching 112% of the e-vehicles and over 135% of the charging stations targeted.

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Smarter Together lighthouse cities

Project information

SMARTER TOGETHER

Grant agreement ID: 691876

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 February 2016
End date

31 January 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.1.3.

Overall budget:

€ 30 308 982,84
EU contribution

€ 24 742 978,64

Coordinated by:

LYON CONFLUENCE

Project information

SMARTER TOGETHER

Grant agreement ID: 691876

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 February 2016
End date

31 January 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.1.3.

Overall budget:

€ 30 308 982,84
EU contribution

€ 24 742 978,64

Coordinated by:

LYON CONFLUENCE

France

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Policy making and guidelines

Smart cities Guidance package on Tour: Second testbed in the city of Sofia

30 November 2018

Project information

SMARTER TOGETHER

Grant agreement ID: 691876

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 February 2016
End date

31 January 2021

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.3.1.3.

Overall budget:

€ 30 308 982,84
EU contribution

€ 24 742 978,64

Coordinated by:

LYON CONFLUENCE

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