More than two thirds of the European population lives in urban areas. Cities are places where both problems emerge and solutions are found. They are fertile ground for science and...
The 2016 edition of the Smart City Expo World Congress, which took place on 15-17 November in Barcelona, brought together 16,688 visitors, 591 exhibitors, 600 cities, 420 speakers, and 50...
The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) has launched Support Services for Exploitation of Research Results (SSERR) targeting completed and ongoing research projects in the field of energy under...
During the month of November the Smart Cities Information System (SCIS) held two webinars on “How to visualize results and KPIs from smart cities projects” and “Provision of data and...
The Smart Cities Information System (SCIS), Horizon 2020 project SMARTER TOGETHERand the EERA Joint Programme on Smart Cities will have a joint stand at the upcoming Smart City Expo World...
During the month of November, SCIS will host two webinars directed at projects, cities, architects, building developers and urban planners. How to visualise results and KPIs from smart cities projects?*...
Steve Georg is an ITS expert. He is the project manager for Birmingham in the OPTICITIES project and member of the EIP-SCC Initiative on New Mobility Services that forms part...
How can we share knowledge about what works and help others do the same? This underlying question gathered together project coordinators, city representatives, the European Commission, and experts involved in...
The second SCIS Project Coordinators meeting will take place on 13 October 2016 in Brussels under the theme Knowledge exchange and replication: sharing experiences in implementation assessment. The event will...
Ainhoa Quina, an industrial designer and active member of the EIP-SCC Initiative on Citizen City, is analysing a series of use cases focused on the co-creation process on smart cities...
As the EIP-SCC representation tour keeps going, representatives of the EIP-SCC and its Initiatives have been meeting, holding workshops and participating in different events around Europe during the month of...
The event, co-organised by JPI Urban Europe, the ERA-NET Smart Cities and Communities and the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, is taking place at the Smart City World...
Nick Michell looks at how the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, through its Zero Emissions Cities project, is striving to develop an approach to get cities onto a zero-emissions...
The New Urban Agenda draft has finally been agrred on at the Habitat III Informal Intergovernmental Meeting which took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 7...
Produced as part of Glasgow’s partnership with 100 Resilient Cities, the resilience strategy is based on a lengthy and detailed conversation with 3,500 Glaswegians. The strategy examines how individuals, communities...
The second post in this series – #2 – We have economic growth, even as the use of electricity is declining – discussed electricity consumption and economic trends in society...
Margit Noll (on the left), Chair of the Management Board of the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe, leads the EIP-SCC Initiative on Scaling-up & Replication of Smart City Plans. Judith...
From 30,000 feet, you could be forgiven for thinking that a city has a pulse. On camera, time-lapse photography of the morning in-rush of traffic, followed by the evening exodus...
According to Frost & Sullivan, the global Smart Cities market is projected to reach US$1.56 trillion by 2020. With rapid urbanization and ageing populations, cities are facing increasing strain on...
On July 29th 2016, the European Commission released its guidelines for the promotion of NZEBs and best practices that, by 2020, all new buildings are NZEBs. Nearly Zero Energy- or...
