Societal, Research and Innovation Challenges in Integrated Planning and Implementation of Smart and Energy-efficient Urban Solutions

UERA in collaboration with EIP-SCC Smart Cities and Communities, JPI Urban Europe, PED Programme of the SET-Plan Action 3.2, SCC-01 projects Smarter Together and Stardust, TOUR4EU

Building Collective Intelligence to Support Local Governments

Side event at SSPCR Conference 2019

Societal, Research and Innovation Challenges in Integrated Planning and Implementation of Smart and

Energy-efficient Urban Solutions

How to Support Local Governments across Europe?

10 December 2019, 11.30 – 18:20 local time

Venue: NOI Techpark Bolzano, Via A. Volta 13 A, Bolzano

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This event is jointly organized by Urban Europe Research Alliance, JPI Urban Europe, the SET-Plan Action 3.2 on Positive Energy Districts, the Action Cluster Integrated Planning, Policies and Regulation of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities, SCC-01 projects Smarter Together and STARDUST, European energy award, and Tuscan Organisation of Universities and Research for Europe.  

Its aim is to bring together a wide range of key stakeholders around integrated planning and implementation of smart and energy-efficient solutions in cities, to discuss not only how efforts to decarbonise cities  can be stepped up through wider replication, but also which agenda for research and innovation should be defined to build more collective intelligence and transformative capacity for local governments, under Horizon Europe, national policy agendas and  JPI Urban Europe’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2.0.

What can we learn from the experiences of lighthouse projects and similar projects? What withholds local urban ecosystems from replication?  How can we build and better deploy collective evidence? What can research partners learn from experiences in smart city projects? And last but not least, which messages should be delivered to the newly established mission boards regarding needed research and innovation?

This event aims to collect key messages, not only  for  new policy agendas, but also for a highly ambitious  research and innovation agenda centering around integrated approaches for planning and implementation, which will be transferred to national policy makers and the  Mission Board on Smart and Climate-neutral Cities and other relevant Mission Boards.