BRIDGING SMART CITIES AND INTEGRATED PLANNING

URBASOFIA

Sabina DIMITRIU, Urban and regional planner Manager of EU Projects | www.urbasofia.eu

About URBASOFIA

Laboratory for urban development, strategic planning, policy design and territorial cohesion focused on developing more integrated, participatory and smart-oriented solutions to pressing urban problems;

Involved in development and management of EU-funded projects, especially in connection with smart cities, strategic integrated planning, urban regeneration as well as the social impact assessment of current urban issues and new ICT solutions under development.

URBASOFIA (lit. knowledge, wisdom for cities) is an Italian-Romanian planning company created in 2011. More information: www.urbasofia.eu

Where and in which programmes we work

Horizon 2020 (CENTRIC, ESPRESSO Collaboration)

ICT/PSP EU Programme (i-SCOPE, SUNSHINE, i-LOCATE);

SEE Programme (STATUS);

URBACT II and III Programme (TUTUR, RE-BLOCK);

JOP ENPI Black Sea, Danube Region, MED, ADRION, etc.;

National level in Romania and Italy ESF and ERDF-funded projects for social innovation, strategies, energy and mobility planning, etc).

Planning and 3S strategies for small and middle-sized cities: Alba Iulia, Baia Mare Metropolitan Area, Kavala (Greece), Pitești, etc.

“An Integrated Development Strategy for the Cluj-Napoca Metropolitan Area 2035”;

Cooperation on study visit development;

Management of EU projects, proposal writing, consultancy and training.

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Prof. Dr. Nicoleta Silvia Ioana Executive Director Social Innovation

MSc. Urb. Sabina

Dimitriu EU Project Manager Planning & Design

Dr. Ing. Pietro Elisei General Director Planning & Policy Design

MSc. Wendy Cinta Communication & Projects Design

PhD. Urb. Matei Cocheci Content manager Planning & Design

MSc. Fabrizio Napoleoni Techology and Business Consultant

MSc. Urb. Bogdan Rugina Planning & Design

Urb. Miruna Drăghia Planning & Design

The challenge of our work

Bridging the gap between cities, integrated planning and smart technologies and tools:

By assisting cities to transition from traditional, static, normative and inflexible planning to integrated planning: area-based, facilitating and innovating governance schemes, designing integrated solutions for urban and territorial development.

By developing the right tools, flagship projects and piloting actions for actual, real urban problems;

Through research and innovation in the field(s) of smart cities (SC) pertaining to urban development and societal innovation.

How can SC innovation actions witness real impact at local level?

How do we embed technology and articulate cities and providers

via innovative planning?

Working with cities and

metropolitan areas

Methodology

BOOK

Inception

Stakeholder identification

Operational analysis

Policy analysis

Networking + State of the Art

CLEAR FRAMEWORK OF AVAILABLE DATA, CURRENT PLANNING TOOLS AND POOL OF LOCAL ACTORS

Urban Program-

ming

Process Embed: Urban

Centers

Planning process results:

Participatory development

1) Urban Problems 2) Possible solutions 3) Design of Strategy

WEB

PLATFORM INTEGRATED STRATEGY; POSTER PLANS, PROJECT, POTENTIAL FUNDING & PPP

Set up of Urban Centers

Operationalizing Governance Framework: territorial pact or urban/metropolitan task force

SUSTAINABILITY AND TOOLS FOR IMPLEMENTATION

Achievements:

KAVALA

Knowledge and Attitude to Valorizing Amazing Local Assets

A smart strategy needs to be rooted locally

Alba Iulia

Strategy

Flagship projects – spatial profiles

Working in Smart Cities projects

and Innovation Actions

Smart UrbaN Services for HIgher eNergy Efficiency

ICT-PSP Project (2013-2016): Innovative digital services, interoperable with existing geographic web-service infrastructures, supporting improved energy efficiency at the urban and building level. www.sunshineproject.eu

Smart service platform accessible from both a web-based client and an App for smartphones and tablets, for:

URBASOFIA delivered the socio-economic impact analysis for the 8 pilot cities and was the coordinator of communication and training events.

1. Automatic large scale assessment of building energy behavior,

2. Optimization of energy consumption of building level heating/cooling systems,

3. Interoperable control of public illumination systems based on AMR.

Center of ExcelleNce in TerRItorial management and Cadastre

H2020 Teaming project (2015-2016), phase 1 – Business Plan for a Center for Excellence in Territorial management and Cadastre in Romania.

Long-term joint venture between key partners across EU in the geospatial field to support smart policies in planning: ANCPI, FBK, TRILOGIS, KULEUVEN, etc.

URBASOFIA: Research on the innovation landscape and development of spatial management strategy for CENTRIC (subcontract).

Indoor/outdoor LOCation and Asset management Through open gEodata

ICT-PSP Project (2014-2017), i-Locate pilots an integrated platform for management and tracking of mobile assets and people within institutions, in order to streamline various processes and improve citizens' experience within public buildings.

Creates and pilots (14 sites, 8 countries) a virtual hub for indoor mapping data and an open source toolkit to enable interoperable indoor/outdoor location and tracking of assets.

URBASOFIA: leading data survey and data integration for pilots, leading socio-economic impact assessment of i-Locate.

Bridging the gap between cities and the smart ecosystem

SCITA CIVITA: A smart development association aimed at fostering cooperation between practitioners, researchers, industry and private investors, with the involvement of consultants and international experts;

Aim: addressing the challenges of cities through coherent programs for smart local and regional development;

Target group: local, regional and national authorities, civil society.

We have launched officially

on July 10 2015

We have offices in Bucharest and Brussels

Brussels Europe Liaison Office (BELO), Avenue d’Auderghem 63 / Oudergemse 63 B-1040 Bruxelles

THINK Smart LOCALLY

GROW Competitive GLOBALLY

Bridging the gap between cities and the smart ecosystem

SPECIALIZATION

SMART GOVERNANCE

PARTICIPATION

REAL-TIME PLANNING

Some of our lessons learned

Technical innovation at European level

Advanced smart solutions for urban development, an answer to almost every (considered) need;

Controlled testing and subsequent barriers for market uptake and replication;

Developing cities as smart cities – in South East Europe

General lack of experience for opting strategically - „anything financeable goes”

Lack of integration and a governance framework

Local smart development strategies still generally non-existant (SEAP and SUMP just start gathering momentum)

Administrative optics still rigid: silo thinking, the biggest barrier for Smart Cities.

Some of our lessons learned

Bridging top-down with bottom up set a base for future coherent territorial development in cities and regions and the foundation for embedding Smart Cities tools and technologies.

There is a real need for smart local participatory planning tools, especially in South East Europe;

Good results require good expertise: local administrations need more direct support both during and after Urban Development projects. A great methodology is not sufficient.

EU Level: 330 million EUR earmarked for urban innovative actions for sustainable urban development in 2014-2020, and even more for Innovation Actions with direct impact in cities. Our strategies have so far played the role of integrators for these initiatives.

We are currently offering our services for:

EU proposal writing and project management

Town and regional strategic planning,

SEAP and SUMP development,

Smart city strategies,

Training and organization of study visits,

Dissemination and networking,

Social innovation and ESF projects.

URBASOFIA as business partner

How to reach us:

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Sabina DIMITRIU |Town and Regional Planner

Manager of EU Projects | www.urbasofia.eu

sabina.dimitriu@urbasofia.eu | (+40)773702216

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