Shifting cities to a low carbon future presents major technological, economic and social challenges for city authorities, urban planners and project developers alike. The framework conditions need to be created to facilitate the adoption of new solutions and promote innovation. This requires a flexible but also stable positive policy environment. These challenges can be addressed by reforming and adjusting policies at local, national, regional and European level.
Join the SCIS webinar on 2 November (Thursday) at 10:30 to see what are the key difficulties EU-funded projects face when rolling our smart innovations and what are the opportunities for policy makers to solve these problems. Register here.
Speakers
- Jorge Nuñez-Ferrer, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Jorge is Senior Research Fellow at CEPS and holds a PhD from Imperial College of the University of London. He is a recognised specialist in EU budgetary and financial instruments, and is also involved in EU smart city policies. He has worked as academic, EC official and consultant for governments on strategic planning for EU structural funds. Between 2010 and 2012 he chaired the Finance Group of the Smart Cities and Communities Stakeholder Platform of the EU. He is one of the authors of the International Electrotechnical Commission’s white paper “Orchestrating infrastructure for sustainable Smart Cities”. Presently, he is also involved in the future reforms of the EU’s budget and financial instruments and has led the background study on EU resources for the High Level Group on Own Resources led by Mario Monti.