Futurum Exhibition on The City of the Future at the NTNU Big Challenge Science Festival
+CityxChange has participated with a booth on “Smart Energy Positive Cities” at the Futurum Science Exhibition. The project participated in a joint exhibition on the topic of Future Cities together with the FME ZEN project on Zero Emission City Districts, also coordinated by NTNU. The joint booth allowed us to
Report on Enabling Regulatory Mechanism to Trial Innovation in Cities
The report on “Enabling Regulatory Mechanism to Trial Innovation in Cities”from our Lighthouse City Trondheim is now available on the +CityxChange website in the Knowledge Base, together with all public deliverables. The report investigates and analyses how EU legislations and national regulations influence the process of establishing positive energy blocks
Position Paper “A Smart City Ecosystem Enabling Open Innovation” published
Abstract “In this position paper we present IT-centered challenges that lie in designing an architecture for a flexible, open, transferable, and replicable smart city ecosystem spanning a plethora of suppliers and systems. The background is the smart city and energy project +CityxChange. Its vision is to enable the co-creation and
Podcast on Creating a Positive Energy City Centre in Limerick | August 2019
“In 1900, only 14% percent of the world’s population lived in a city. Today, for the first time in history, more than half the planet’s population reside in urban areas. These urban centres are now racing to become the smart cities of the future. Limerick has received a major boost
Citizen Participation in Co-creation | June 2019
From governance in ‘Campus development’ to governance in ‘Smart cities’ – Savis Gohari On the 21st of June, 2019, our new colleague, Savis Gohari, gave a presentation on governance processes on smart city initiatives, linking in this way her PhD research (Governance in the planning and decision-making process: The co-location
ERRIN Smart Cities Working Group Meeting, Brussels
ERRIN (European Regions Research and Innovation Network) had invited for a workshop of their Smart Cities Working Group around the key topics of the two new Lighthouse Projects, titled Smart Cities WG Meeting: Latest developments on PEDs and the future of Smart Cities. As the main contribution, the two new
Learning workshop and PED workshop in Vienna | April 2019
After the first kick-off meeting at the project launch in Trondheim in November 2018, +CityxChange partners from LHCs, FCs and supporting organizations got together again on April 2-4 for the PED Cities Workshop. The three-day workshop – one day organised by +CityxChange project coordinators and the second two by JPI
+CityxChange at European Smart Projects Summit, San Sebastian
Organised by the Lighthouse City of our sister-project REPLICATE, Donostia/San Sebastian, the European Smart Projects Summit took place on 26-27 March 2019. Several consortium partners of +CityxChange were together with representatives from 14 SCC01 projects and 90 cities in Spain to learn from the other projects, exchange experiences. Among other
Kick-off: The cities we want to live in | November 2018
On Wednesday 7th November 2018, the kick-off and first consortium meeting was held for the +CityxChange initiative. Today we kicked off our +CityxChange project in Trondheim, with nearly 90 participants from 32 partners. One of the main targets for the kick-off was to determine how to create open, collaborative and engaging
Co-creating the future we want to live in | July 2018
On 6 July, the +CityxChange proposal was formally invited by the European Commission to become a new smart city lighthouse project, under the “Smart Cities and Communities” call of the EU research and innovation programme Horizon 2020. The proposal was given excellent comments and scores by the experts and rated
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