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...
Continuing on the same note as in the first post in this series, “ #1 – the days of solid growth and margins are over”, today we’ll present some more...
The European Commission has released its latest outlook – the EU Reference Scenario 2016 - which projects energy, transport and greenhouse gas emissions trends in the EU up until 2050...
John Zib, a social entrepreneur developing scalable sustainable digital urban media platforms that benefit society and the arts, is the Chair of the Citizen City Initiative, a recently created initiative...
The European Commission has presented a strategy on low-emission mobility, setting the course for the development of EU-wide measures on low- and zero-emission vehicles and alternative low-emissions fuels. The strategy...
The registration is now open for the 2016 Horizon 2020 info day on 'Smart cities and communities' that will take place in Brussels on 23 September 2016. The info day...
What is a smart city? Usually when I raise this question, most people start talking about sensors, smart grids, cellphone apps, big data, and the internet of things (IoT). Obviously...
Maria Sangiuliano, chair of the EIP-SCC Citizen Focus Action Cluster, wants to encourage smart cities stakeholders “to comment and to propose their views” on the Citizen Engagement Manifesto that the...
In a resolution on the EU Commission’s “renewables progress report”, voted on 23 June 2016 at the European Parliament's plenary session, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) state that although...
We are accepting submissions for guest blog posts! We are looking for great content (articles, interviews, infographics, videos) which is consistent with our blog topics such as -smart cities, energy...
The SCIS team is working on the assessment of the first Smart Cities and Communities Horizon 2020 projects. The analysis of projects is under way - on a technical, financial...
By Antonio Garrido-Marijuan, Austrian Institute of Technology & SCIS As part of the technical visits and meetings our team is carrying out with the SCIS projects, I had the chance...
The Dutch city of Nijmegen is the winner of the European Green Capital Award 2018, which recognizes efforts and commitments made by cities to improving the urban environment. Nijmegen presented...
The world’s two primary city-led climate change and energy initiatives, the Covenant of Mayors and the Compact of Mayors, announced the formation of a new, first-of-its-kind global initiative of cities...
On 14 June, the winners of the EU Sustainable Energy Week annual awards for innovative energy projects were announced during an Awards Ceremony in Brussels. “This is the highlight of...
Markku Markkula (Kolari, Finland) has been the President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) since February 2015. He is a member of the National Coalition Party in Finland and...
My Smart City District (MSCD), a group of like-minded European Smart Cities projects, represents 8 projects, 25 cities across 13 countries. Together, they are putting on a series of short...
Eindhoven 23 May 2016: Battling through a surprisingly stormy day in May, 14 key lighthouse projects came together to share solutions and with the long-term ambition of creating a smarter...
