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...
Willemieke Hornis is project manager for the policy study on Smart Cities at the Ministry for Infrastructure and the Environment in the Netherlands and represents EIP-SCC “ Cross-Nations Exchange” Initiative...
We are two weeks away from the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) taking place in Brussels between 13 and 17 June. The event involves a month-long series of activities to...
Citizens and stakeholders are organising European Union Energy Days throughout the month of June to activate the transition to secure, clean and efficient energy. Held as part of EU Sustainable...
The 6 th edition of the World Smart City Awards will take place as part of the 2016 Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona. The aim of the awards...
At a time when the European project is increasingly coming under scrutiny, the urban agenda for the EU is an opportunity to build a stronger Europe closer to its citizens...
On 24th May 2016 the annual General Assembly of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities took place in Eindhoven (Netherlands), an associated event of the Dutch Presidency...
By Max Blöchle, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology I had the chance to visit the factory and R&D site of RACell, Denmark-based innovative SME providing combined solutions for solar thermal...
Lucía González is the leader of the Use Case Validation work package (WP3) of District of the Future (DoF) and represents EIP-SCC Commitment 524 – Formalising an Open Framework for...
SCIS will participate in the EIP-SCC General Assembly, taking place on 24 May in Eindhoven, with a presentation on ‘ Fostering co-development with projects to enhance results through Smart Cities...
By Sebastian Möller, Austrian Institute of Technology & SCIS It was one sunny Tuesday in April that I joined a meeting of the BUILDSMART project, co-funded by the European Union’s...
The 2016 Project Coordinators Meeting of SCIS will take place between 10 and 13 October 2016 as part of the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels, Belgium. In...
The 2016 General Assembly of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Smart Cities and Communities will take place on 24 May 2016 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The General Assembly is...
On the Tuesday, 3 May, 11:00-12:00, the GuiDanCe (Green Digital Charter) and Sharing Cities projects are organising a joint webinar on the theme of urban platforms. Urban Platforms form a...
By Antonio Garrido-Marijuan, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology & SCIS To explain the Smart Cities Information System (SCIS) in one sentence is to say that it is a database containing...
Was there a particular inspiration behind your career choice? Briefly how did you first come to work in the area of sustainability and energy management at the EU level? Sustainability...
