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Portugal in the world’s biggest

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Smart Cities Portugal

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9,000 participants, 300 cities, 80 countries, 160 companies and 320 speakers got together in Barcelona for the world’s biggest smart cities event - the “Smart City Expo World Congress”, held between the 19th and 21st of November 2013.

“Smart Cities change the World” was the motto for the meeting, which addressed areas such as energy, governance and economics, mobil-ity, sustainable construction, security and ur-ban resilience, technology and innovation, in-telligent society and collaborative city.

Portugal was present at the debate, with a del-egation consisting in municipalities, business-es and clusters of the Smart Cities Portugal platform. INTELI, CEIIA - Centre for Excellence and Innovation in the Automotive Industry, the Competitiveness and Technology Pole for En-ergy, companies like Oracle, Indra, Magnum Cap, Conteúdo Chave and Prio.e, and the cities of Cascais, Porto, Coimbra, Aveiro and Torres Vedras joined forces to take part in the global movement of smart cities.

The Portuguese participation occurred in sev-eral stages, with communications in confer-ences, presence at the fair, the launching of publications and the organization of interna-tional meetings. Two important events, which were organized by INTELI, are worthy of note.

The first was the meeting of the Iberian Net-work of Smart Cities, which brought together mayors from RECI - Spanish Network of Smart Cities, and RENER - Portuguese Network of Smart Cities, in an initial meeting to discuss opportunities for collaboration in the area of smart cities, after formalizing the protocol be-tween the parties.

The second was the release of the briefing “Roadmap Smart Cities Portugal”, a catalogue of the skills and capabilities of national R&D centres and companies operating in the mar-ket of smart cities. Visibility was given to the products, systems and innovative urban solu-tions developed in Portugal, which are capable of being replicated worldwide.

The overall outcome was positive in the opinion of cities and businesses. In November this year we will be in Barcelona again for the 2014 edi-tion of the “Smart City Expo World Congress”!

Portugal in the world’s biggest Smart Cities event

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Smart Cities Portugal

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The Smart Cities Portugal platform attended the world’s larg-est congress on smart cities, in Barcelona - the “Smart City Expo World Congress”. The Portuguese delegation included municipalities, companies and clusters, marking the country’s position in the smart cities movement.

Companies, clusters, universities, R&D centres, municipalities and other economic and social stakeholders operating in the smart cities market joined forces to launch the Smart Cities Por-tugal collaborative platform.

Under the coordination of INTELI, the alliance seeks to assert Portugal as an exporter of technologies, products and high val-ue-added systems for smart cities at global level, as well as to be a living laboratory for the development and testing of innova-tive urban solutions in a real context.

AggREgATE SUPPLY; BOOST DEMAND

The platform aims to build syn-ergies between the different stakeholders working in the field of smart cities, in areas such as energy, mobility, environment, buildings, governance, tourism, health or safety, to promote the structuring of supply and its val-orisation in international mar-kets.

It’s about inducing the devel-opment and demonstration of integrated solutions, capable of responding, in a creative and innovative way, to urban needs and problems with potential for replication in cities around the

world. This is the approach advocated by the European Innova-tion Partnership “Smart Cities and Communities” promoted by the European Commission, which is linked to the funding pro-grams for research and innovation in the programming period 2014-2020.

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But it is not enough to develop and aggregate supply. The Smart Cities Portugal alliance also aims to act on the demand side, contributing to the elimination of market barriers in areas such as public procurement, standardization, business models, fi-nancing and stakeholder engagement.

Citizen participation is crucial in the processes of urban trans-formation, being a critical success factor for the definition and implementation of smart city strategies in terms of co-creation and open innovation. Not least because Smart Cities Portugal privileges a ‘smart city’ concept focused on people, appealing to a new environment for collaboration between cities and compa-nies providing technological solutions.

ROADMAP SMART CITIES PORTUgAL

The Roadmap Smart Cities Portugal – In Brief was launched in Barcelona in November 2013, at the “Smart City Expo World Congress” with the objective of presenting the skills and capabil-ities of companies and R&D centres operating in the smart cities market, in order to give visibility to innovative urban solutions developed in Portugal, within the international market.

It is a base of intelligence, promoted by INTELI, which aims to fill a gap in the market of smart cities, asserting itself as an emerg-ing sector whose actors are often scattered and disjointed. To achieve this goal, some 80 companies and R&D institutions col-laborated in the process of generating information and knowl-edge about the cluster associated with smart cities.

In preliminary terms, the findings point to a market where com-panies operate mainly in the areas of governance and public par-ticipation, mobility and energy, followed by the area of tourism and culture. The roadmap is a sample of these products, servic-es, applications and projects, acting as a catalogue of national supply.

In May 2014, a 2nd edition of the roadmap will be published, with additional and in-depth information about the stakeholders that make up the Smart Cities Portugal platform.

But it is not enough to develop and aggregate supply. the Smart Cities Portugal alliance also aims to act on the demand side.

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Smart Cities Portugal - Specific Objectives

- To promote the development and production of innovative urban solutions for smart cities in an integrated manner

- To encourage the replication of smart city concepts and models tested in Portugal, in other cities of the world

- To encourage the creation of new companies associated with the smart cities market

- To promote national incorporation in projects of direct foreign investment associated with smart cities

- To encourage cities to develop smart urban projects in line with their regional specificities

- To encourage the evaluation of the impact of smart strategies and projects on quality of life of citizens

- To affirm Portuguese companies and cities in the smart cities market, establishing synergies with international networks

- To promote participation of Portuguese companies and cities in the 2014-2020 funding programs

Smart Cities Portugal - Intervention Fields

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Partners

INTELI – Inteligência em Inovação, Centro de Inovação (Coordinator)

RENER Living Lab – Portuguese Smart Cities Network

Competitiveness and Technology Pole for Energy - EnergyIN

Competitiveness and Technology Pole for Mobility

Pole for Communication and Information Technologies - TICE.PT

Sustainable Habitat Cluster

CEIIA – Innovative Centre for the Automotive Industry

University of Minho

Center of Competence for Future Cities of University of Porto

Oracle Portugal

Siemens Portugal

Indra Portugal

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Portugal and Spain

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Barcelona was the meeting point of the intelligent networks of Portuguese cities (RENER) and Spanish cities (RECI). The meet-ing formally marked the Iberian cooperation for the development of projects in the areas of energy, environment, social innovation, urban regeneration and governance. The mayors are focused on increasing the critical mass and promote sustainable develop-ment so as to ensure the proper positioning of the Iberian cities in the ranking of global competitiveness.

RENER, the Portuguese network headed by INTELI, and RECI agreed to initiate work meetings of the sector, aiming to posi-tion their cities ahead on the starting grid for access to European funds.

The meeting held under the World Congress for Smart Cities, in Bar-celona, was attended by represent-atives of Porto, Coimbra, Torres Vedras and Cascais. Noteworthy was the participation of the Mayor of Águeda, gil Nadais, even as just an observer. The municipality is part of a new group of Portuguese cities that want to join RENER. On the Spanish side, the entry of eight cities was also approved.

This “movement” around a new paradigm of cities development is

mobilizing politicians, companies and universities. At the meeting in Barcelona, the Portuguese-Spanish agreement, signed in Cas-cais on November 13th in the presence of INTELI administrator Alexandre Videira, president of RECI Iñigo de la Serna, and pres-ident of the host municipality Carlos Carreiras was reinforced.

The partnership of the Iberian cities backs the creation of a plat-form for testing and experimentation of technology solutions and reinforces the strategic positioning and ability to negotiate with the European Union and South America.

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ABOUT RENER

The RENER Network was formed originally as a Pilot Network for Electric Mobility, under the National Programme for Electric Mo-bility. Managed by INTELI and member of the “European Network of Living Labs”, the network comprises 25 national municipalities.

In 2012, new paths are opened to develop RENER, with the imple-mentation of the Smart Cities Index by INTELI in 20 of the 25 munic-ipalities of the network, for assessing urban intelligence and pro-posing concrete projects to be developed in cooperation.

given the results achieved, on November 12th 2013 the RENER members approved the extension of the network with the inclu-sion of new areas of cooperation in addition to electric mobility (energy, environment, buildings, government, social innovation, etc.). One also ex-pects the integration of new munic-ipalities that have been expressing interest in participating in this move-ment.

ABOUT RECI

RECI - Spanish Network of Smart Cities is an initiative headed by the Municipality of Santander, which in-cludes 49 Spanish cities, and whose aim is to create a knowledge ex-change between the cities, imple-ment tools to identify technology areas and detection of opportuni-ties, and promote networks of scientific and business cooperation.

The network operationalizes its activity through a series of thematic work groups, each led by one or more municipalities: social inno-vation, energy, environment, infrastructure and housing, urban mo-bility, governance, economics and business, which meet regularly.

It is also actively involved in the Technical Committee of Standard-ization for Smart Cities (AENOR), which aims to establish technical standards for smart cities, in line with international and European works.

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The “Welcome guides” platform, already imple-mented in several Portuguese cities, is part of the “Roadmap Smart Cities Portugal”, which was recently presented in Barcelona at the World Congress of Smart Cities, a publication with busi-nesses, technological infrastructures and R&D centres with skills and capabilities in the area of smart cities. It is a briefing of a comprehensive study that will be released in March 2014. This publication was coordinated by INTELI - Intelli-gence and Innovation, manager of the Portuguese smart city network.

“Welcome guides” is a project developed by the Conteúdo Chave Company Ltd. The mere fact that this platform, which uses technology in Aug-mented Reality, was selected as an example of excellence in the intelligent management of tour-ist destinations represents a huge stimulus for Conteúdo Chave and a great incentive to continue working, combining the most technologically ad-vanced solutions with communication. Through the “Welcome guides”, the user in possession of a smartphone has immediate access to all exist-ing Points of Interest (POI) in a given territory, with specific information on each one, images, videos, contacts etc., and even routes defined by the gPS, to help the user find each location without the slightest difficulty.

The application, which focuses on Cities and Destinations, besides geo-referencing through Augmented Reality, also includes a scanner of Augmented Reality which will work with various images, for example: posters, billboards, muse-um boards, flyers, restaurant menus, logos, etc., presenting diverse multimedia content (videos, 3d elements, audio, buttons, etc.), enriching promo-tion media and also the interaction with visitors and users. The application is ready and should be available later this month for the Android and iOS platform.

Conteúdo Chave will also launch within days a turnkey solution for city and town applications, with the most basic mobile solution at a low cost and resourcing to partnerships and sharing of re-sources.

During the “Smart City Expo World Congress” held in Bar-celona (19-21 November), the “Welcome guides” project was also selected to be presented at the “Smart City Open Innovation Marketplace”, arousing huge in-terest from investors.

The World Congress of smart cit-ies brought together government

and political decision-makers, business owners, entrepreneurs, researchers and various global thought leaders. The future of cities in areas such as technology and innovation, mobility, energy, development, urban security, environmental sus-tainability, among others, was discussed there at the highest level.

80 countries and over 3 thousand delegates rep-resenting various cities across the world partici-pated in this congress.

Conteúdo Chave Company Ltd. annually partici-pates in this Congress, this year taking pride in being, for the first time, part of the intelligent solutions presented and recommended there.

By Vitor Pereira | Conteúdo Chave

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The “Smart City Expo World Congress” brin-gs together leading experts and leaders in the area, allowing sharing, discussing of ideas and solutions for smart cities. Several cities/munici-palities present their dynamic projects and their main results. In this context, many companies also present their solutions to make cities smar-ter, for both the public sector and the private sector.

Participation in this event enables technicians to have contact with these new solutions and pro-jects, and also to benchmark their city in com-parison to others. The environment at the event challenges and motivates for change and for im-plementation of new projects and initiatives.

The possibility of listening to great experts like AMORY LOVINS, RICHARD FLORIDA and KENT LARSON, who inspire audiences, inspires us to do better, to innovate and to try new solutions and strategies to solve the problems of our cities and urban areas.

The high number of participants and speakers, the diversity of projects submitted and the amount of information available at the “Smart City Expo World Congress” reveals the dynamics that this area presents today and its importance

to those who manage cities. It is an essential event to understand how this ‘Smart City’ concept is crucial to increase economic competitive-ness, environmental sustainability, and promote cultural development, social inclusion and quality of life of the populations.

Also worth mentioning was our par-ticipation in the meeting between the RENER Network (Portugue-se) and RECI (Spanish network for smart cities), where an agreement for an Iberian Smart Cities part-nership was signed, with the clear objective of developing networking across different sectorial areas,

which will enable the development of integrated projects, the sharing of experiences and possible joint applications for European funds.

By Sandra Pedro | Torres Vedras Municipality

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Smart Cities in numbersfacts

Top 10 – Smart Cities Suppliers

Smart City Infrastructure Investment by Industry

Source: Navigant Research 2013

Source: Navigant Research 2013

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Source: European Parliament 2014

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Smart Cities Portugal Roadshow 2014

Throughout 2014, the Smart Cities Portugal plat-form will carry out a roadshow of workshops on topics related to smart cities. In several cities of the country, the areas privileged by the “Eu-ropean Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities” of the European Commission: mobility, energy, ICT and sustainable habitat, will be covered under the coordination of the associ-ated Competitiveness and Technology Poles and Clusters. The roadshow will end with an interna-tional conference, organized by INTELI, which will feature the participation of experts from Europe, Latin America and Africa. It is intended that these events lead to projects and specific actions to be submitted to Horizon 2020 or the 2014-2020 na-tional and regional programs.

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Atlantic Axis invites INTELI to training on Smart Cities

INTELI was invited by the Peninsular North-west Atlantic Axis, an association of Portuguese and galician cities, to provide training under the ALD (Local Digital Agenda) project, funded by the POCTEP, which took place on October 29, 2013, in galicia.

The theme of the event was smart cities, with Catarina Selada from INTELI (and RENER -Net-work of Smart Cities in Portugal) and May Escobar (RECI - Network of Smart Cities in Spain) head-ing a portion of the training. Several municipality technicians from both sides of the border, such as Porto and Matosinhos, participated as trainees.

Subsequently, INTELI had the opportunity to par-ticipate in a similar event aimed at political repre-sentatives, held on December 11th in Porto, under the theme “building cities of the future”.

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INTELI presents Smart Cities Portugal at ALTEC

The workshop on “The Future of Cities, the Cities of the Future: Challenges and opportunities for innovative urban projects in the Latin Ibero-Amer-ican context” was held on October 31st 2013 in Porto, under the 15th Ibero-Latin American Con-gress for Technology Management, ALTEC2013, with the collaboration of INTELI and CEIIA.

The event aimed to stimulate debate on chal-lenges and opportunities for the development of innovative urban projects, with emphasis on the Latin Ibero-American context. In that sense, IN-TELI presented the collaborative platform Smart Cities Portugal as an arena of projection for Por-tugal as an exporter of solutions for smart cities worldwide.

The contrast between a more “technological” and a more “human” vision of smart cities marked the debate, which included participants from Portu-gal, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, etc.

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INTELI participates in the project “growing with Efficiency”

In December 2013, INTELI began the development of another project to promote energy efficiency in the country. Continuing the partnership with the Centre for Research IN+ of the ‘Instituto Superior Técnico’ under the PPEC, this new initiative called “growing with Efficiency” has a target audience of 40 foster homes for children and youngsters, to be selected via an open tender scheduled to be launched in March.

This project includes not only the development of individual plans for improving energy efficien-cy, based on a diagnosis previously designed for each of the institutions involved, through audits, but also the awareness of residents and staff of the home towards the topic at hand. In this sense, each institution will be challenged to meet a va-riety of educational activities, appropriate to the various age groups of children and youngsters involved, whose success will be rewarded with a variety of awards tailored to specific needs.

The different activities of the “growing with Effi-ciency” project will be developed over 24 months and may be monitored through a portal that will be launched soon.

Bioatlas project approved, coordinated by INTELI

To create a system of digital geographic informa-tion that is user friendly, illustrating the market potential of bioenergy products made in Portugal, is the aim of the new project by INTELI: the Bio-atlas. This initiative, approved under the SIAC - Support System of Collective Actions (NSRF), will combine, in an innovative way, the scientific re-search conducted in Portuguese universities, na-tional geographic information systems and data and the Portuguese bioenergy industry.

The project will provide geo-referenced informa-tion on forest and agricultural biomass availabil-ity, processing centres that integrate the supply chains of several national bioenergy products, as well as estimates of the volume of potential pro-duction and their operating costs. Algorithms for estimating energy and emissions associated with these production chains will also be included.

The tool’s target audience will be national SMEs which will be invited to participate in its develop-ment process. This participatory approach will, on the one hand, ensure appropriateness, rele-vance and feasibility of its use and, on the other hand, promote a dynamic cooperation between the scientific community and companies, and among the corporate world itself. Besides INTE-LI, the Bioatlas project also has the support of the University of Aveiro, the Regional Agency for Energy and Environment - AREANATEJO and the Technology and Competitiveness Pole for Energy - ENERgYIN.

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INTELI integrates network to promote post-carbon cities

INTELI is a partner of the POCACITO project – “Post-Carbon Cities of Tomorrow”, supported by the 7th Framework Pro-gram of the European Commission, under the leadership of the german Ecologic Institute. The consortium also includes prestigious universities, institutes and research centres in 11 different countries (germany, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Tur-key, Croatia, France, Denmark, Austria, Czech Republic and Sweden).

The initiative aims to define a 2050 roadmap for the transition of European cities towards a post-carbon economy through participatory sce-nario processes. In Portugal, Lisbon was the se-lected case study. Besides the Portuguese cap-ital, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Malmö, Istanbul, Litomerice, Milan, Turin, Offenburg and Zagreb are also part of this network of cities that act as a living laboratory in search of innovative proposals for sustainable urban development.

Although the European territory is the starting point, the ambitions of POCACITO go beyond European borders. Aware of the potential of the so-called BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China), the partners plan to create an online “marketplace of ideas”, encouraging the ex-change of ideas, solutions, best practices and the creation of partnerships with various institutions in those countries, particularly Brazil and China.The kick-off meeting of the project took place in Berlin last January 15-17, 2014, with the partici-pation of a team from INTELI.

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Calls for Proposals on Smart Cities in Horizon 2020 are open

On December 11th 2013, calls for propos-als were launched under Horizon 2020, the great program for research and inno-vation in Europe between 2014 and 2020. The calls, specifically dedicated to smart cities, are announced in the work program “Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy”, in-cluding two types of initiatives.

On the one hand, we have the so-called “lighthouse projects”, which translate into demonstration actions of solutions at the intersection of the fields of energy, mobil-ity and ICT, in a selected number of Euro-pean cities. Each proposal should include 2-3 leading cities and 2-3 follower cities in partnership with companies, research centres, universities and consultancy companies, with an available budget of EUR 92 million for approving about 3 pro-jects in 2014. On the other hand, we have a set of horizontal initiatives that intend to act in the creation and promotion of mar-kets, in the areas of public procurement, standards, indicators, urban entrepre-neurship, etc.

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Portuguese cities compete for the Mayors Challenge Award

The “Mayors Challenge” contest is launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the philan-thropic division of the media group founded by businessman and former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. As happened in 2012, the year where the first edition of the contest was reserved for cities in the United States, the Mayors Challenge 2013-2014 pro-poses to distinguish “visionary”, “shocking”, “feasible” and “replicable” ideas by European municipalities with 100,000 or more inhabit-ants. Europe has about 600 cities that meet this requirement, and Portugal has only 20.

The Portuguese cities vying for the “Mayors Challenge” are Braga, Cascais, Coimbra, Lisbon, Odivelas, Porto and Sintra - five mil-lion euros for the winner and one million eu-ros for each runner-up: 2nd to 5th place.

Portugal beats record of production of clean electricity

The year 2013 was, by far, the most renew-able of this century in Portugal in terms of production and consumption of electricity. The production of electricity from renewa-ble energy sources in the country accounted for 58.3% of total electricity consumption, an increase of 20% compared to 2012.

Based on figures published by REN earlier this month, considering only the national energy production, renewable energy con-tribution in 2013 amounted to a record value of 61.7%. As a result of increased produc-tion of renewable energy, there was a re-duction in the amount of imported electricity of 2.8-fold, which in practice translates into a decrease of 10% of total consumption.

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European Commission launches 2014 edition of Enterprise Promotion Awards

In the end of January, the European Com-mission launched the 2014 edition of the European Enterprise Promotion Awards, a competition to reward the most creative and successful initiatives of public bodies and public-private partnerships of the EU that support entrepreneurship, and Small and Medium Enterprises in particular.

The national competition begins in May, with the Portuguese winners being se-lected to compete internationally. The ultimate goal of the participants is to win a grand Prize of the Jury, in Naples, in October. The six entry categories are: Fostering entrepreneurial mind-sets; In-vesting in skills; Improving the business environment; Supporting the internation-alization of companies; Supporting the de-velopment of green markets and resource efficiency; Responsible and inclusive en-trepreneurship.

The six finalists of the European Capital of Innovation are announced

Barcelona, Espoo, grenoble, groningen, Mal-aga and Paris are the six finalist cities of the first edition of the European Capital of Inno-vation Award i.e. iCapital. The award, in the amount of 500,000 euros, will be used to de-velop the city’s efforts on improving their “in-novation ecosystems” - linking citizens, pub-lic organizations, universities and companies.

The winning city will be announced in the 2014 Innovation Convention taking place on the 10th and 11th of March in Brussels.

Future Cities 2014 Conference highlights good practice in the City of Porto

The Future Cities 2014 Conference - Porto: Living the Future, took place in Porto last January 28th, with over 400 participants.

Future Cities is a capacity-building project led by the Centre of Competence in Fu-ture Cities of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, which is being imple-mented in a living lab model, with the city of Porto as a stage for testing innovative urban solutions.

Several examples were presented at the conference, showing that the Future Cities project is turning Porto into a living labo-ratory of solutions for cities, such as: the largest moving network of communication in the world, designed for installing net-work points in 400 STCP buses.

The coordinator of the Centre for Compe-tence in Future Cities, João Barros, be-lieves the Future Cities project can attract the attention of technology giants to the city.

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Innovation and Sustainability in the Cities of the Future

Lisbon – Portugal27 February 2014

Organized by the green Project Awards (gPA), the conference on “Innovation and Sustaina-bility in Cities of the Future”, held in the grand Auditorium of Culturgest, headquarters of CgD in Lisbon, also marks the launch of the seventh edition of the gPA Portugal. The event aims to promote debate on the role of sustainable cities in building a competitive country, focusing on the topics of mobility, urban metabolism, innovation, governance and cooperation, among others. “The Role of Sustainable Cities in the construction of a Competitive Country” and “The Challenges of Cities of the Future: Economy, Society and Environment” are the two panels that comprise the debate.

Smart Cities International Exhibition

Sofia – Bulgária5 - 7 March 2014

The first smart cities event in Southeast Europe focuses on the fields of energy, mobility and transport, emergency management, waste man-agement, and information and communication technologies. The aim is to show solutions that will help urban systems provide better and more efficient services to its citizens.

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Amsterdam – The Netherlands13 - 14 May 2014

This is one of the biggest smart cities events, where for 2 days some of the most successful projects in Europe are shown. Cities and compa-nies around the world share their knowledge and experience on projects for the development of smart cities. With over 450 delegates in the 2013 edition, the event was a great success. The focus of this edition is the sharing of knowledge to achieve climatic objectives and energy transition.

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Pluris 2014 – Re(inventing) the City in Times of Change

Lisbon – Portugal24 - 26 September 2014

This conference addresses the theme “A Chang-ing World” and the implications for cities and territories. The focus on (re)inventing aims to retake known connections with new raw material, to design connections and experiences with the memory of what one knows and respects, but with creativity and ingenuity at the service of the future. Moreover, change is necessary to recog-nize limitations and potentials, and preferably to have control over the actions and decisions so that there are no disruptions, both in person-al and in collective terms. Understanding and reflecting on this change that is announced, but which is taking time to materialize, is the aim of this congress.

Smart to Future Cities 2014

London – United Kingdom29 - 30 April 2014

This is a big smart cities event which in the 2013 edition focused on the way the market is at an inflection point between talking about what is a ‘smart city’ and understanding how to implement it. In 2014 the focus will be on moving smart cit-ies onto the mainstream, with increasing atten-tion of governments on the development policies of smart cities, the implementation of protocols and operating platforms for smart cities and the acceptance of smart technologies as the norm in distinct areas of the cities, such as transport, energy, security, etc.

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Books & Articles

Smart Cities Readiness GuideSmart Cities Council, November 2013

This document was a collaborative effort be-tween several entities, including large compa-nies from several areas covered by smart cities and more than 50 independent experts in the development of smart cities. The guide is a con-ceptual roadmap for addressing growth strate-gies, focusing on universal principles that bring together key areas such as energy, transport, water and public safety. A global knowledge base of practices and policies provides cities with a mandate for informed action and a foundation for success. The guide is used to focus and structure a path towards a 21st century city.

Smart Cities: Best of the BestSmart Cities Council, October 2013

The document presents a compendium of rank-ings of smart cities, giving answers to questions such as: Which are the most competitive cities in the world? Which are the most creative? Where are the best cities for technology start-ups?

Strategic Implementation PlanEuropean Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities, October 2013

The plan describes the ideas of the “Europe-an Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities” on how best to leverage technol-ogies, financing mechanisms and public-private partnerships in the creation of smart cities. The document highlights the actions needed to create the right conditions to make cities better places to live and do business, to reduce energy consumption, carbon emissions and congestion.

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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New UtopiaAnthony M. Townsend, 2013

The book by the city planner and expert in te-chnology, Anthony Townsend, takes a historical look at the forces that shaped the planning and design of cities and information technology since the rise of great industrial cities of the nine-teenth century to the present date. Smart Cities considers the motivations, aspirations and needs of all stakeholders of the new paradigm of smart cities, offering a new civic education to guide everyone’s efforts towards the joint construction of the future.

10 Year Rolling AgendaSmart Cities Stakeholder Platform, Dezembro 2013

The purpose of this agenda is to present the ideas of the “Smart Cities Stakeholder Plat-form”, embodied in a practical vision of how to move forward in accelerating the deployment and integration of technologies that are required to turn European cities and communities into smart cities and communities.

Using EU funding mechanism for Smart CitiesSmart Cities Stakeholder Platform, November 2013

The purpose of this document is to provide information on the opportunities offered by EU funding instruments for the period 2014-2020, supporting regional entities in the preparation of the programming documents. The report pre-sents new tools and provides guidance on how to integrate the investments of smart cities in the programming process, taking the opportunity to combine regional funding with other sources.

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Sites & Links

SMART CITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS

http://www.smartcityexpo.com/pt/home

SMART CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

http://eu-smartcities.eu/

SMART CITIES COUNCIL

http://smartcitiescouncil.com/

SMART CITIES PORTUGAL

https://www.facebook.com/SmartCitiesPortugal

FUTURE CITIES PROJECT.EU

http://futurecities.up.pt/site/

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TECHNICAL DATASHEETFEB 2014 | N°11

edition and Coordination

INTELI

editorial team

Catarina Selada, Maria João Rocha, Ana Luísa Almeida,

Diana Reis e Anthony Malhado

Collaboration

Sandra Pedro - CM Torres Vedras

Vitor Pereira - Conteúdo Chave

graphic design

Mónica Sousa

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