30 success stories by cities, projects and businesses on energy, mobility and ICT will be showcased on 3 October - the second day of the conference Empowering smart solutions for better cities organised by the European Commission and the Smart Cities Information System.
The parallel sessions will highlight good practice and achievements, demonstrate the tools and innovative solutions used and the challenges overcome to reach success. They illustrate the blend of technology, finance, society, communication and governance. In an interactive fashion, each presentation will take place twice in front of two small groups with different participants to allow for detailed and engaged discussions. Each presentation will last 15 minutes plus 25 minutes for group discussion and Q&A.
See the next 15 parallel sessions here.
The 15 parallel sessions in #1 Urban innovation in practice: success stories are:
Audi Hungary’s bee farm: nature-based solutions in urban development
Mihály Lados | Hungarian Academy of Science
Audi Hungary established a working bee farm at the factory on a former Natura 2000 area coupled with a 5-year research and educational project for 12-year-olds. The session will present a study of the harmonisation of industrial development and nature conservation. What impact can a multinational machinery company have on the thinking of workers, children and local citizens?
BUILDSMART: Integration of high performance technologies in residential buildings
Olga Macías | TECNALIA
The BUILDSMART project analysed the energy performance of different active façade solutions integrated in a residential building under the same conditions, and the impact of integration with other technologies.
CITyFiED: innovative business model in Laguna de Duero’s Torrelago district
Javier Martín | VEOLIA
Innovative business model developed in the CITyFiED project for the overall energy renovation of Laguna de Duero’s Torrelago district, combining public and private financing schemes to achieve significant economic savings. The session will talk about Torrelago’s retrofitting strategy, business case: CANVAS model, key technical and economic figures, barriers and challenges, success factors and best practices, lessons learned.
Cooling with drinking water: City-zen demonstration in Amsterdam
Otto Reinstra | Waternet
The City-zen project in Amsterdam demonstrates new uses for drinking water - supply of cooling from public drinking water infrastructure to a pharmaceutical plant via an ATES system. The session will talk about cooling capacity in drinking water pipelines, cooling demand in Sanquin pharmaceutical industry, cold delivery and storage, risks and risk mitigation, energy savings for consumers.
EU-GUGLE project: sustainable renovation pilot for smart districts
Javier Llorente | CENER
Six districts in European cities are being renovated to reach 40% to 80% energy reduction and renewable energy sources supply of 25% through nearly-zero energy retrofitting. The presentation will demonstrate different technical solutions for thermal envelope and energy systems of buildings, including renewable energy integration solutions.
GrowSmarter: transforming cities for a smart sustainable Europe
Lisa Enarsson | City of Stockholm
GrowSmarter cities and industry work together to create a smart sustainable Europe using 12 smart solutions in energy efficient renovation, renewable energy, sustainable transportation and ICT.
iURBAN: multilevel, integrated, and scalable smart city
Ina Karova | Energy Agency of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
The iURBAN project created a tool to address increasing market demands for cheaper, cleaner energy services that led to the development of smart city energy infrastructure in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was designed with the direct involvement of end users - local residents, energy companies and public administration. The presentation will focus on the involvement of pilot buildings to embed the infrastructure, the architecture and features of iURBAN, and lessons learned in the process of its development and introduction.
Keys to creating and maintaining a city network: the CELSIUS experience
Katrina Folland | City of Gothenburg
A city-network should be led by cities and invigorated by close collaboration with academia and business. The presentation will share the experience of the CELSIUS project and highlight the key elements that make a city network successful - understanding cities’ needs, a triple- helix approach and constant flow of new knowledge and innovation.
MySMARTLife: energy generation and management for a neutral multimodal hub
Natacha Javalet | ENGIE
In MySMARTLife project, ENGIE develops an integrated solution to transform parking in a neutral multimodal hub.
Smart Monitor: monitoring Vienna's smart city progress
Clemens Rainer | denkstatt
Smart Monitor is a research project with the City of Vienna and other partners to develop a strategic monitoring concept for the Vienna's Smart City Framework Strategy.
Smart Society Academy
Alexander Schmidt | Fraunhofer IAO
The Smart Society Academy is an educational umbrella for smart city-related training on all levels of operation for professionals in both cities and industry.
SMARTER TOGETHER: urban Infrastructure as a basis for data collection, smart data and IoT based solutions
Wolfgang Glock | City of Munich
The City of Munich is developing three 'urban labs' consisting of dedicated lamp post infrastructure with additional power supply and WiFi to be used for sensor based smart solutions. Some of the core aspects of the presentation are collecting information using sensor systems installed within urban infrastructure like lamp posts, making data available through a smart data platform and providing smart services using mobile devices.
Smarticipate: opening up the smart city
Marek Vogt | WeLoveTheCity
Smarticipate is a new way to submit your ideas or proposals for a better neighbourhood and receive immediate feedback based on open data and smart solutions. The presentation will share the lessons learned from the smarticipate project, and show how smart citizens and smart cities meet.
SURECITY project: how to define medium and long term sustainable action plans
Nicolas Pardo Garcia | AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
The SURECITY project develops holistic optimisation and integration of energy, transport and infrastructure tools as well as policy and market strategies to give support to cities, companies and citizens.
The Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy: sustainable, climate-resilient and vibrant cities
Kristina Dely | Covenant of Mayors Office, Energy Cities
The session will present the achievements of the Covenant of Mayors Community, opportunities offered by the Covenant of Mayors initiative to support local authorities towards the implementation of their energy transition and climate change adaptation process.