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European Innovation Partnership on

Smart Cities and Communities

Supporting Europe's cities in

getting smarter

Wolfgang HoefsUnit Smart Cities & SustainabilityDirectorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and TechnologyEuropean Commission

Cities in the EU

~70% of energy consumption

~75% of greenhouse gas emissions

~70% of EU population

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Every city is unique…

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… but challenges and opportunities are similar

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enabling effect

Districts and Built

Environment

Sustainable Mobility

Integrated Infrastructures

The EIP Smart Cities 'Philosophie'

• Tackle common challenges together (cities, industry, SMEs, academia)

• Develop innovative, replicable solutions

• Bundle the needs of cities and regions

• Include business and banks

Create markets

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The EIP Smart Cities Objective

Triple bottom line gain for Europe:

•Higher quality of life for citizens

•Incresed competitiveness of industry and SMEs

•Significant contribution to Europe's energy and climate goals (increase energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gases, increase use of renewable energy sources)

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Smart Cities and Communities EIP - Strategic & Operational Implementation Plan Matrix Issues Organisation

Sustainable Districts & Built Environment

Integrated Infrastructure &

Processes

Sustainable Urban Mobility

Citizen Focus how we build society into the process as an integral actor for transformation and beneficiary of gains

Integrated Planning how we work across sector and administrative boundaries; and manage temporal goals

Business Models, Procurement & Funding integrating local solutions in an EU and global market

Knowledge Sharing how we accelerate the quality sharing of experience to build capacity to innovate and deliver

Open Data understand how to exploit the growing pools of data; making it accessible – yet respecting privacy

Standards providing the framework for consistency commonality and repeatability, without stifling innovation

Metrics & Indicators enabling cities to demonstrate performance gains in a comparable manner

Policy & Regulation creating the enabling environment to accelerate improvement

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With the launch of the Invitation for Commitment the Smart Cities EIP has fully entered into implementation stage.

Horizon 2020 Focus Area 'Smart Cities'

• Complementary to the EIP, not "under" the EIP

• EIP membership not a precondition for succesfully applying

• Focus Area was inspired by and took full account of on-going developments in EIP

• Complementary to the EIP, not "under" the EIP

• EIP membership not a precondition for succesfully applying

• Focus Area was inspired by and took full account of on-going developments in EIP

Invitation for Commitment

• EIP's own implementation "instrument"

• Importantly different to Calls for Proposal, much lighter application process and with different goals

• No funding associated

• EIP's own implementation "instrument"

• Importantly different to Calls for Proposal, much lighter application process and with different goals

• No funding associated

Focus of work in the Partnership so far on creating, reflecting content; now changing towards more actionable mode

Submitting a commitment offers several opportunities for learning, partnering, efficiency gains and new creation of new business:

•Visibility: promote actions on a European scale•Engage with others to get new ideas and feedback on actions •Learn from others and exchanges best practices •Partner with others to jointly achieve more and create cost savings or new business

Invitation for Commitments

Results

•Some 400 commitments have been received, around 350 eligible•Sectorial mix: cities, business and research well balanced•All priority areas of the Strategic Implementation Plan are covered, vertical areas best covered•Citizen Focus around 50 commitments•final results available in mid-July•Good geographic spread across EU (Spain, Italy, Netherlands leading)

• participants of commitments submitted under one priority area • implementation with concrete targets and work plans.• updates of the Operational Implementation Plan• European Commission will actively support action clusters through participation,

feedback and facilitation of contact points

Action Clusters

• Final results of Invitation for Commitments by mid-July• Matchmaking between received commitments• Setting up of online marketplace to host received commitments to allow for

partnering and learning• Establishing action clusters based on received commitments around focus areas

of EIP• Defining overall targets for EIP• Action cluster meetings to work on commitments jointly (e.g. joint procurement)

and to design roadmap for each cluster• Mapping of EU research needs in the area of Smart Cities• Creating dedicated framework for Smart Cities standardisation efforts in Europe• Easing access to public and private funding

What will happen next?

Get involved

for more informationhttp://ec.europa.eu/eip/smartcities/or

ec-smartcities@ec.europa.eu

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European Innovation Partnership on

Smart Cities and Communities