Arcus is an independent fund manager investing in European infrastructure assets across three core sectors: telecoms, transport and energy.

The Smart City Infrastructure Fund is an investment vehicle which provides long-term private institutional capital for the development of sustainable urban ecosystems.  The Fund helps cities deal with:

•    Continued urbanization

•    Climate change and resource scarcity

•    Development of sustainable communities

•    Technological advancement and digitalisation

GNE Finance is a high impact investment company providing financing for the built environment. GNE Finance works with cities and regions to provide financial solutions to home and building renovation programs. GNE Finance delivers innovative solutions that maximize social and environmental impact while delivering sustainable returns to capital providers. GNE Finance offers homeowners support and affordable tailored financing for energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation, safety and accessibility improvements.

With over 120 global executives, Amber has a very experienced team of professionals focused on development, financing and investment in public infrastructure. We also leverage our expertise into new sectors including new energy markets and select real estate opportunities. Amber has over 8 billion EUR of assets under management across the UK, Ireland, North America, Continental Europe and Australia.

The city of Leipzig has long been actively committed to be a climate conscious city. Innovations in areas of energy, smart city and health not only strengthen companies and start-ups, but also the population and the environment can directly or indirectly benefit from modern and intelligent infrastructure solutions.

The city of Espoo foresees SPARCs as a vital instrument to accelerate growth that leads to a prosperous future. Having been named twice as the most sustainable city in Europe and recently called by the UN to become a SDG city, Espoo is fully committed to embark upon SPARCs and create future the project envisages. Energy and mobility are key topics for Espoo that provide the ground for carbon neutrality.

Alkmaar is a city with  108,000 inhabitants in the centre of of Noord-Holland with a strong cultural and historical heritage. Alkmaar is also a modern city with a strong knowledge-driven economy, based on sustainability, tourism, healthcare, entrepreneurship and innovation. Alkmaar aims to be the most innovative municipality in The Netherlands by 2021 by

introducing smart city concepts and digitalizing many services. Alkmaar is highly consistent and committed in its sustainable

Évora, located in Alentejo, is a city of an outstanding beauty, embraced by its fortress walls, filled with historic memories in each street, each home and each inhabitant, heir to a rich and diverse cultural heritage, built and preserved over time. Inhabited since the Neolithic period, its squares and monuments tell us about local and national history, religion and culture, making its people proud of both past and present times.

As part of ATELIER, Bilbao aims to replace its waste collection and cleaning vehicles with electric vehicles and to implement 3,500 electric vehicles in the city by 2020. Moreover, Bilbao plans to provide the municipality with a vehicle recharge infrastructure, as well as an online electric vehicle promotion platform.

In Amsterdam, ATELIER will develop Positive Energy District in six locations within Buiksloterham, in the north of Amsterdam. One of these six locations is De Ceuvel, an already existing energy community with a smart grid, participating in the energy trading activities of the project. Two locations are newly developed building groups, Poppies and Republica, with a total of 22,000 m2.