Smart Cities Marketplace: Smart City Expo World Congress

The Smart Cities Marketplace team is again participating in this year’s Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), the premier global event for cities and urban innovation, taking place from 5-7 November 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. 

On behalf of the European Commission, the Smart Cities Marketplace is coordinating the joint EC representation, featuring a diverse group of partners, initiatives, and projects. This collective presence, under the European Commission’s umbrella, aims to showcase a variety of urban and sustainable city activities from multiple perspectives. All partners share the common goal of fostering a European movement to adopt, replicate, and scale sustainable urban solutions, accelerating the delivery of the EU Green Deal and REPowerEU at the local level. 

Find the preliminary agenda here. 

Our partners and initiatives span a wide range of areas and backgrounds, including strategies to accelerate the EU Green Deal, Positive Energy in Districts and Buildings, the power of Communities and Digitalisation for a Greener Future. This year’s partners include: 

• Smart Cities Marketplace 
• Global Covenant of Mayors & Covenant of Mayors Europe 
• ASCEND 
• ATELIER 
• BUILDSPACE 
• Driving Urban Transitions Partnership 
• European Urban Initiative 
• European Capital of Smart Tourism 
• Intelligent Cities Challenge 
• MAKING CITY 
• NetZeroCities 
• NEUTRALPATH 
• PNO Innovation – Multimodal smart city mobility and logistics in a synchronised approach 
• POCITYF 
• RESPONSE 
• Re-Value 
• Scalable Cities Secretariat 
• Support services for EU smart communities 
• 5G for Smart Communities
• Support service for Citizen-led renovation

Our joint presence at SCEWC 2024 will include various activities: 

Congress & Agora Sessions: Addressing relevant EC policies and cross-cutting topics, focusing on scaling up solutions across cities. 

Stand Representation: Featuring an engaging booth program with sessions organized by attending projects and initiatives, supplementing and reinforcing the cross-cutting topics presented in Agora sessions. 

Networking Spaces: Facilitating interaction with and promotion of the services of each partner project/initiative. 

We look forward to meeting you at SCEWC 2024 to experience insightful Agora and booth sessions and to expand your network. 

Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more information on the program and topics. If you have any questions, please contact the Smart Cities Marketplace Event Team at SCEWC2024@steinbeis-europa.de. 

In the context of the Smart Cities Marketplace matchmaking services, representatives of city administrations and smart city project developers are invited to submit their project ideas through this link. Our experts will be available at the joint EC stand to help shape your project concept. 

Coordination of "Joint European Commission representation of initiatives and projects" Hall 2, D81