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Annemie Wyckmans, NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities

Smart City?

Annemie Wyckmans, NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities

Smart City?

Annemie Wyckmans, NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities

Empowering People in Smart Sustainable Cities

Smart = Making cities & communities more sustainable, supported by ICT where this makes sense

Last year, seven million people died because of pollution in cities.

Hence, we are not just dealing with “urban planning” but actually with a matter of life and death.

How through cities may we save the planet?

Ólafur Ragnar Grimsson, former president of Iceland, Chairman of the International Renewable Energy Agency's Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation, during the 2018 China-EU Sustainable Urbanisation Conference “Digital XiongAn: Empowering the Future” in Beijing, 12 December 2018.

Empowering People in Smart Sustainable Cities

Empowering People in Smart Sustainable Cities

All cities have vowed to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, some by 2025.

• Global market for smart cities is expected to be worth over €1.78 trillion by 2025

• Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America regions driving much of the market growth

• Citizen- and business-facing services are a core component of this expanding market

• Require new ways of co-developing and co-delivering products and services

• Building trust and acceptance for transformational change

Global market for people-centred smart sustainable cities

Empowering People in Smart Sustainable Cities

https://ww2.frost.com/news/press-releases/frost-sullivan-experts-announce-global-smart-cities-raise-market-over-2-trillion-2025/

Economist Intelligence Unit (2016). Empowering Cities: The real story on how citizens and businesses are driving smart cities. London: Economist Intelligence Unit.

• Reframe community participation to broaden and deepen citizen empowerment;

• Test and validate smart collaborative governance to support effective decision making;

• Develop visualized, interactive decision support;

• Test effective mechanisms for local experiments to be scaled up, shared, and transferred;

• Perform impact assessment to ensure that tested actions have the desired effect;

• Manage this long-term concerted effort between all partners and stakeholders.

Opportunities for Digital Support

Empowering People in Smart Sustainable Cities

• Provide city-scale test beds for validation, rapid prototyping, and fast commercialisation

• Being among the first validated movers in a rapidly growing market demand for people-driven smart city approaches;

• Better insight of the needs of cities and communities, enabling companies to develop more effective tenders, targeted services & sustainable business models;

• Promoting an entrepreneurial public sector driving urban innovation. Better access to public sector as a market segment, allowing this to become an engine for private sector;

• Collaborative pilots more extensive than individual partners can achieve by themselves, promoting scaling-up from experiments, and learning from other frontrunners.

Smart Collaborative Governance

Empowering People in Smart Sustainable Cities

This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No 824260.

Limerick · Trondheim · Alba Iulia · Písek · Sestao · Smolyan · Võru

+CityxChange:

20 million €,

7 cities,

23 industry partners,

2 universities

Citizen centric Smart Innovation

5 Years, 32 Partners, 10 European Countries

Digital Innovation Hubs

© NTNU, Patrick Driscoll

Horizon Europe Mission Area on Carbon neutral & Smart Cities

We need to define a proper mission, not just gather everything we already have (Mark Van Stiphout, DG Energy, during EERA JPC meeting 24 April 2019)

& more

https://www.eera-set.eu/eera-joint-programmes-jps/list-of-jps/smart-cities/ & https://smartcities-infosystem.eu/scc-lighthouse-projects

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No. 733571. The material reflects only the authors’ views and the

European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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EU – China Partnership on Sustainable

Urbanisation “Better City Better Life”

Create joint learning curve for EU and China

Provide open political platform for European

& Chinese stakeholders to share experiences

and technologies in urban planning, energy

conservation, environmental protection and

public services.

Empower national bodies, cities, regions,

architects, urban planners and business

representatives to engage with each other,

identify advanced and intelligent solutions &

bring them to the market faster and better

Signed in 2012 by Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang and

President of the European Commission Barroso.

http://eeas.europa.eu/archives/delegations/china/eu_china/s

ustainable_urbanisation/sustainable_urbanisation.htm

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Research & Innovation Agenda for EU-China

Cooperation on Sustainable Urbanisation

Predictable and long-term frame of reference for cooperation

between Europe and China on sustainable urbanisation

Enabling entrepreneurs and other stakeholders

to develop, test, validate and implement

innovative urban solutions within four areas:

1. Cities of People & Culture

2. Green Cities

3. Smart & Innovative Cities

4. Collaborative Innovation

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Documenting good practice; Helping others succeed

What works, and why? What does not work, and how can others avoid it?

Benchmarking, Common Key Performance Indicators

Towards an EU-China Knowledge Platform on Sustainable Urbanisation

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UEC City-City Partnership Programme & Powerhouse Awards

Support & strengthen cooperation

between Chinese & European cities

1st UEC Powerhouse Award (2018): handed

Wuhan (China) & Manchester (UK) for

long-standing & extensive cooperation

on sustainable urbanisation

2nd UEC Powerhouse Award (2019):

Open competition to identify the most

promising EU-China city-city pairs

powerhouse@urbaneuchina.eu

Annual Nordic Edge China Expo, Training & Expert Exchange

Empowering People in Smart Sustainable Cities

The transformative effect of smart, sustainable cities and its impact on markets

Annemie WyckmansHead of NTNU Smart Sustainable CitiesProject Coordinator of +CityxChange, URBAN-EU-CHINA & EERA JP Smart Cities