Scalable Cities is a European Commission initiative created to identify, promote and scale integrated solutions and business models for sustainable, smart and climate-neutral districts across Europe.
The initiative brings together an innovative, sustainable and city-led community of smart and climate-neutral cities. It represents 134 unique cities involved in 28 Smart Cities and Communities (SCC) and Positive Energy Districts (PED) projects funded under the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes. These projects work in consortia with academia, industry, associations and consultants.
Although the Scalable Cities Secretariat services have now formally ended, the community, knowledge base and collaboration structures created through the initiative continue to provide value to cities and stakeholders across Europe.
Several groups and networks established under Scalable Cities are continuing voluntarily, supporting ongoing knowledge exchange, peer learning and collaboration between cities, projects and experts.
An overview of ongoing and finished projects can be found through the links below:
Together, they implemented more than 550 demonstrations of technological and social innovations in the areas of mobility and logistics, buildings, urban data and ICT infrastructure, citizen engagement and urban governance.
The cities that are represented by Scalable Cities have shown significant results, achieving:
- more than 53% energy saved
- up to 88% CO2 emissions reduced
- over 17 500 smart meters installed
- over 1 million m2 of floor space refurbished
- more than 5270 e-vehicles introduced
- nearly 500 e-charging stations installed
- more than 260 000 citizens engaged
