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Diapositiva 1The City of the Future The City of the Future A UPM Initiative February 2013

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Diapositiva 2The City of the Future The importance of the cities (I ) Today, more than 50% of world population live in cities. This figure will grow up to 60% in 2030. There is a continous flow of people from rural to urban areas. Urban population is growing in 5 million people every month. Today, we have more than 20 megacities, having more than 10 millions inhabitants. Around 2020, we will have a minimum of 8 megacities more, half of them in developing countries. Networked society City Index. 2012

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Diapositiva 3The City of the Future The importance of the city. An economical perspective The city is the basic environment for human development and an index for international competitiveness of nations. Around the evolution of cities an enormous market is developing. It is essential to have an integrated vision of the city, its needs and future development.

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Diapositiva 4The City of the Future The city of the future (I) Needs and opportunities derived from the use of the technology in many fields, helping in a more harmonic development, more respectful with people and the environment. To Provide basic services (health, water, waste management, education, etc.) to the entire urban people is an unattainable goal today.

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Diapositiva 5The City of the Future The city of the future (II) The expected future growth of the cities could not be developed by extrapolating current solutions. New concepts about cities are required to ensure a sustainable development The future of the city as a working framework. An integrated perspective focuses on the individuals as part of a complex society. Personal environment Colective environment The city as an integrated system

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Diapositiva 6The City of the Future The city of the future (III) The need for high quality advanced services and integrated systems will grow encompassed with the growth of economical and cultural development of urban population. City Today City Tomorrow Basic Services Advanced Services Basic Services Advanced Services and Systems

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Diapositiva 7The City of the Future Experiences of European Universities FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY (FCL) The Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) is a transdisciplinary research centre focused on urban sustainability in a global frame. It is the first research programme of the Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC). It is an initiative of ETH (Zurich) and EPFL (Lausanne) with the two national universities of Singapore (NUS and NTU). It is home to a community of over 100 PhD, postdoctoral and professorial researchers working on diverse themes related to future cities and environmental sustainability. A joint initiative of the two Swiss Federal Technical Universities Supported by the Swiss Government in cooperation with Singapore

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Diapositiva 8The City of the Future Experiences of European Universities FCL Projects Low Energy. Digital Fabrication. Transforming and Mining Urban Stocks. Urban Design Strategies and Resources. Urban Sociology. Territorial Organisation. Landscape Ecology. Mobility and Transportation Planning. Simulation Platform. 8 Urban Metabolism In order to address this challenge, the Future Cities Laboratory adopts the idea of urban metabolism as its conceptual framework. This framework helps us consider the city as a complex system that calibrates, manages and configures various stocks and flows of resources, such as energy, water, capital, people, space and information.. Partners around the world

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Diapositiva 9The City of the Future Experiences of European Universities The Barlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). University College London. Vision CASA's focus is to be at the forefront of what is one of the grand challenges of 21st Century science: to build a science of cities from a multidisciplinary base, drawing on cutting edge methods, and ideas in modeling, complexity, visualisation and computation. Our vision is to be central to this new science, the science of smart cities, and relate it to city planning, policy and architecture in its widest sense.

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Diapositiva 10The City of the Future Experiences in European Universities 10 Intraction of different goals in CASA initiative

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Diapositiva 11The City of the Future Experiences of European Universities European Center for Ubiquitous Computing and Smart Cities UBICITEC http://www.ubicitec.org/ An Association created to coodinate the efforts in samrt cities at European level. It is promoted by the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). 11 European Projects related to ubiquitous technologies and internet of the things.

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Diapositiva 12The City of the Future USA initiatives 12 The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Diapositiva 13The City of the Future A UPM Institutional Initiative THE CITY OF THE FUTURE

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Diapositiva 14The City of the Future UPM Vision about the City of Future UPM is developing a number of research and teaching activities on areas related to the future of the cities and services for supporting them. Opportunity for UPM? Capability for offering a multi-disciplinary view from the engineering and architecture perspective that other organizations cannot easily provide. Institutional action scheduled and supported for a long term in order to convert UPM into a national and international reference in the City of the Future

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Diapositiva 15The City of the Future Details of the Initiative What is the difference between the City of the Future initiative and other existing ones? It is not just another initiative about Smart Cities, this one covers other topics about the city It offers an integrated view about the city, converting UPM in a Integrated Lab of the City It stimulates the interdisciplinary cooperation private- public in the UPM as a whole It is created for fostering the cooperation between private sector and public administrations (mainly City Halls and Regional Government)

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Diapositiva 16The City of the Future Strategic objectives for UPM Increase the attractiveness of UPM as a reference for the City of the Future Create an innovative technological ecosystem with our Campuses Provide a new frame to foster the cooperation between public and private entities Increase the long-term funding from several sources Foster international partnership to address global challenges Strategic Approach (I)

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Diapositiva 17The City of the Future Objectives for the development of the Initiative Design, simulate and analyze different scenarios for the development of the Cities Develop systems and components to face some of the existing challenges in the current and future Cities Demonstrate the feasibility of systems and services through pilots and demonstrators Support Knowledge transfer and provide consulting services Conduct training activities for creating multidisciplinary profiled graduates on Science of the Cities Strategic Approach (II)

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Diapositiva 18The City of the Future Strategic Areas HHRR for Research and Innovation Technological and Scientific Infrastructures Strategic alliances for R&D Advanced training Cooperation with industry should be developed in all areas of The City of the Future Pre-doc and post-doc contracts and grants. Supporting services for entrepreneurship Large scale research facilities, evaluation of concept equipment, pilot plants, Creation of Centers and joint labs with public and private entities Masters, doctorate, R&D projects R&D collaborative projects in national and international programs (H2020, Eureka, etc.)

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Diapositiva 19The City of the Future Areas 19 City of the Future Urban Planning Mobility and Transports Energy and environment Smart City Social and Economical Development

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Diapositiva 20The City of the Future Perspectives City of the Future Urban Planning Mobility and Transports Energy and Environment Smart City Social and Economical Development R&D International perspective (Horizon 2020 and Regional Strategy) Private Sector R&D National perspective (National and Regional R&D Programmes) Public Sector UPM Centres Other R&D Centres and Universities Pilot project with City Hall H2020 Project with Industry #1 Project with Industry #2 Project

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Diapositiva 21The City of the Future International Perspective INNOVATION COMMUNITY CHINESE INOVATION COMMUNITY BRAZILIAN INNOVATION COMMUNITY ITALIAN INNOVATION COMMUNITY COMPANY 4 SMES 1 SMES 2 SPIN-OFF 1 SPIN-OFF 2 COMPANY 5 FUNDING GROUP UPM COMPANY 1 COMPANY 2 COMPANY 3

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Diapositiva 22The City of the Future A different project with an integrated vision of the City of the Future Resources and capabilities of the UPM as a whole Opportunity for cooperation in emerging sectors creating thematic clusters Improvement of their competitive position by means of of specific initiatives developed in each thematic cluster What do we offer to companies? (I)

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Diapositiva 23The City of the Future Opportunity of receiving and sharing a strategic vision about the development of the City of the Future Opportunity of accessing to a multidisciplinary consulting about many aspects of the cities of the future Opportunity of participating on the definition of training profiles about the sciences of the cities of the future What do we offer to companies? (II)

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Diapositiva 24The City of the Future Increase of external funding from the joint participation in public R&D competitive programs Cooperation with UPM and its international network, taking advantage of UPMs international relationships and agreements Possibility of having an active role in the governance and decision boards of the Initiative Use of UPM campuses as living labs and demonstrators What do we offer to companies? (III)

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Diapositiva 25The City of the Future UPM Institutional Initiative City of the Future An open space for new ways and new approaches for cooperation with Industry