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+CityxChange – Developing a Lighthouse Project for Positive Energy Districts

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824260.

ERRIN Smart Cities WG Meeting | 14.05.2019Bjørn-Ove Berthelsen (TK) | Dirk Ahlers (NTNU)

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EU H2020 SCC-01 Lighthouse Projects

[http://smartcities-infosystem.eu/]

Preparation

Co-creating the project

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Consortium building and preparation with 32 partners

Timeline

Proposal Preparation Phase(spending time and effort)

SubmissionDecision

DeadlineAt least 1 year before • Project Team

• Consortium Building• Stakeholder Engagement• Understanding the Call and Eval Criteria• Joint and Open Management Structure• Demo Development ⟲• Political Anchoring ⟲• Project Refinement ⟲• Joint Understanding ⟲• Impacts and KPIs ⟲• Proposal Writing ⟲• Graphics• Budgeting• ...

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Project5 years

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What’s needed (according to +CxC)

• ~20 core project people• Management group w/weekly meets: Coordinator,

Master Writer, city coordinators (2), “Topic/Demo responsible”/project developer, Admin Manager

• National Contact Points (NCPs) + +• Scout(s): Knowledge and understanding of what’s

done/promised by other SCC1 consortia + “what’s happening right now”

• Networks such as ERRIN, POLIS, ICLEI, EIP-SCC….• Confidence and trust within team - culture building

“ >100 ideas ended up in 11 demo projects”

Cities

Consortium Structure

ApproachProject Core

City-Driven System Transition towards PEBs/PEDs

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Open Innovation

• Co-creation and open innovation as a main principle • Citizen Participation• Outreach• Open Data and Systems

• “Open by Default”• Building the project on transparency and openness• Inter- and extra-project collaboration SCC1

• first SCC1 year with 5% (€1 mill.) for external collaboration• Open Research Data Pilot and Open Access

City perspective and impact

Why the City of Trondheim engages

• Citizen at the centre, open innovation

• Urban prototyping, experimenting, testing

for new ways of working

• New jobs, businesses and business models;

attract more investments

• Climate, energy, and local air quality

• New ICT-based services to improve urban

quality

• Benchmarking and strengthen city position

• Competence/Experience for sustainable

urban development

• Solutions and cooperation processes

adapted to city’s identity

• Strategic municipal vision for 2050, co-

created with local actors

Key points from a city perspective

● Cities at the core - city driven projects● Anchoring at CEO level (political)● City coordinator, project lead + strong

competence in project development, energy, mobility, business development, ICT, citizen involvement, communication + adm/support staff

● Work across silos● City as a lab

Innovation Leadership

Relational welfare,

co-creation, and

Municipality 3.0

“Smart” sustainable

urban development &

democracy

Societal learning and

UniversityCity -

Trd3.0

Demo district and areas- the road to PEBs

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Q&A

Bjørn Ove Berthelsenbjorn-ove.berthelsen@trondheim.kommune.no

Dirk Ahlersdirk.ahlers@ntnu.no

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