The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities & Communities (EIP-SCC) Georg Houben DG Energy European Commission
Contents Cities Key for Europe Why Smart Cities and Communities? What we do The 6 Action Clusters General Assembly Berlin Next steps General roadmap Smart Cities EU Context H2020 Lighthouse Projects Calls for proposals 2016/2017 2
Cities Key for Europe 78% of EU s population lives in cities. 85% of EU s GDP is generated there. Cities deliver on jobs, growth, investments, innovation and CO 2 reduction, to name a few... 3
Why Smart Cities and Communities? Challenges Fragmented markets Lack of new business models and financing solutions Need for knowledge sharing and capacity building 4
Why Smart Cities and Communities? Opportunities Improving quality of live, competitiveness and sustainability Exporting European knowledge in a strong growth market estimated globally at 1.3 trillion in 2020 5
What we do Together we develop and implement solutions facilitate networking and partnering accumulate and share knowledge build capacity focus on Energy, Transport and ICT 6
The 6 Action Clusters 4000 partners, 370 commitments, 31 countries. EIP It is all about scale, acceleration, impact, common solutions, integrated approaches and collaboration. 7
General Assembly Berlin 21 May 2015 450 participants Handbook for citizen engagement Six-nation forum developed blueprint for national Smart Cities strategies Memorandum of Understanding on more interoperable Urban Platforms 8
Next steps Refocus on initiatives based on the commitments Reinforce interconnections between the "Action Clusters" Concentration on actions, which are supported by a majority of members New roadmaps for the "Action Clusters" as well as for the whole partnership 9
General roadmap 4000 partners in 370 commitments Scaling up successful commitments Growing the community Smart city ecosystems for replicable high impact solutions Strategic Implementation Plan Fragmented Smart Cities market Gap analysis 10
The Smart Cities EU Context Technology Financing/Funds EU Funding Initiatives & Programmes Smart Cities & Communities DG ENER, DG MOVE & DG CNECT Elena Facility DG ENER, EIB & IFI EC Juncker Plan European Structural & Investment Funds DG REGIO Political Leadership (no EU funding) Covenant Of Mayors DG ENER & JRC Climate Adaption DG CLIMA Sustainable Growth & Jobs EU context Global Covenant Of Mayors DG ENER, DG REGIO, FPI, DG DEVCO & EEAS International context 11
H2020 Lighthouse projects (1) Definition for 1 st call Low energy districts Integrated infrastructures Sustainable urban mobility Conditions Consortia: industry & cities 2-3 cities involving 2-3 follower cities Part of ambitious urban plan Funding from other parts secured Affordable solutions 12
H2020 Lighthouse projects (2) Results of the 1 st call The Lighthouse cities 46 "Lighthouse" cities in 17 countries 2 groups: cities from 0,1 to 0,5 million inhabitants and cities with more than 0,5 million inhabitants Lots of experience with former EU programmes (e.g. CONCERTO, CIVITAS, etc.) 13
H2020 Lighthouse projects (3) Results of the 1 st call The Follower cities 53 cities from 28 countries 2 cities selected twice Less experience with former EU programmes 14
H2020 Lighthouse Projects (4) 1 st call results Stavanger Stockholm GROWSMARTER Stockholm, Cologne, Barcelona, Valetta, Suceava, Porto, Cork and Graz REMOURBAN Valladolid, Nottingham, Tapebasi, Seraing and Miskolc Manchester Cork Nottingham Eindhoven Seraing Leipzig Prague Cologne Valladolid Graz Miskolc Suceava TRIANGULUM Manchester, Eindhoven, Stavanger, Prague, Leipzig and Sabadell Porto Barcelona Sabadel Lead cities Follower cities Tapebasi Valletta 15
Calls for proposals 2016/2017 (1) No co-funding for buildings renovation, ICT and vehicles Co-funding of different sources and national or local programmes is desired "Lighthouse" projects must: o include high performance buildings (must exist before start of the project), o integrate all energy systems on district level (or larger), o integrate e-grid management that allows for charging electric vehicles, o innovative business models for large scale replication without subsidies. 16
Calls for proposals 2016/2017 (2) "Lighthouse" may also include: o other resource efficiency measures (e.g. water, waste, local production, etc.), o district heating systems optimisation, o urban planning integrating energy, transport, mobility, growth and jobs. Follower cities still compulsory, but stronger focus on Member States with weaker economic conditions. Info Day "Smart Cities" 6 November 2015 17
Thank you! Georg.HOUBEN@ec.europa.eu Get involved at http://eu-smartcities.eu!