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Smart and Inclusive Solutions for a Better Life in Urban Districts

Project description

Innovative solutions for smart urban areas

Smart technologies can offer effective solutions to improve city life in urban areas across Europe and Asia. The EU-funded SMARTER TOGETHER project aims to connect various cities and partners to explore innovative solutions for sustainable and inclusive living in urban districts. The project involves the European Lighthouse cities Lyon, Munich, and Vienna, the Follower cities Santiago de Compostela, Sofia, Venice, as well as Kyiv and Yokohama as observer cities. It also includes business partners from the energy, mobility, and ICT sectors, along with research institutions, academia, and the European city network. The goal is to create five clusters of co-created and integrated solutions, which include living labs for citizen engagement, district heating and renewable energy sources for low-energy districts, and e-mobility solutions.

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.

Call for proposal

H2020-SCC-2014-2015

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Sub call

H2020-SCC-2015

Coordinator

LYON CONFLUENCE
Net EU contribution
€ 3 229 146,24
Address
RUE DU LAC 20
69003 Lyon
France

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Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes Rhône
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 4 613 066,06

Participants (53)