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.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energysolar thermal
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energyphotovoltaic
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringurban engineeringsmart cities
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
Call for proposal
H2020-SCC-2015
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
69003 Lyon
France
Participants (36)
69003 Lyon
69006 Lyon
Participation ended
92800 Puteaux
92079 Paris La Defense Cedex
26160 Pont De Barret
80331 Muenchen
60594 Frankfurt (Main)
80997 München
80333 Munchen
81379 Munchen
68219 Mannheim
1010 Wien
1050 Wien
1030 Wien
9506 Villach
Participation ended
1210 Wien
1030 Wien
1030 Wien
80686 Munchen
1210 Wien
25000 Besancon
1150 Bruxelles
9000 St Gallen
80333 Muenchen
10787 Berlin
69130 Ecully Cedex
15705 Santiago De Compostela
1000 Sofia
30124 Venezia
69002 Lyon
92042 Paris La Defense
81243 Munchen
81249 Munchen
92500 Rueil-malmaison
92130 Issy Les Moulineaux
1210 Wien