
Smart Cities & Buildings
Solid urban waste (SUW) is an abundant source for circular products production, but it is generally not exploited. Over 500 kg of municipal waste per capita were generated in the EU in 2020, while only 45% was recycled. EEIP joined 35 partners from Spain, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, France, The Netherlands, Cyprus, and Hungary, to kick off the REDOL project. REDOL aims to turn Zaragoza, the capital of Aragon, into a zero-waste city by 2040. The project objectives include: Redesigning five value chains for Solid Urban in Aragon (packaging, plastics, CDW, textiles, WEEE), management technologies to collect, sort and classify SUW, improving the processing routes of sorted materials to avoid landfilling and improve interaction among key players.
Read Full articlePersonal Data - Smart Cities: How Cities Can Utilise Their Citizen’s Personal Data to Help Them Become Climate Neutral
The Smart Cities Marketplace initiative, Citizens Control of Personal Data will launch a book on the EC stand at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona on November 15th. It will address some of the issues which a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and how this can be enhanced by using emerging technology.
Read Full articleWhat it means placing citizens at the heart of smart city transition
Peachtree Corners is one of the USA top testing grounds for shiny new smart city technology. The 45,000-person city is home to an unusual public innovation experiment. Curiosity Lb invites private firms to come test out their prototypes.
Read Full article5 smart cities around the world
Smart cities use information and communication technology (ICT) to improve operational efficiency, share information with the public and provide a better quality of government service and citizen welfare. The UN predicts that 70% of the world population will be living in cities and urban areas by 2050.
Read Full articleEnergy Optimization using Artificial Intelligence (AI) on HVAC system
HVAC equipment operates under the control of automation systems or a building management system. New fully autonomous self-adaptive Artificial Intelligence (AI) software is designed to deliver significant savings and dramatically reduce carbon emissions, enabling a self-operating building.
Read Full articlePROCURE SELECTS 3 INNOVATIVE APPROACHES
ProcuRE launched the first out of three phases towards reaching its goal. Six procurers from Slovenia, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Israel, and Turkey selected three innovative Renovation Approaches. The Call for Tenders was released on 24 November 2021.
Read Full articleMoving hydrogen from hype to hope
Hydrogen is the talk of the town and the Commission makes it a big priority in its green industrial strategy. There are few hydrogen fuel cell cars and most of them are actually demonstration vehicles.
Read Full articleHow smart cities could use digital finance platforms
Digital finance is increasingly demonstrating its ability to overcome key barriers for smaller scale project finance. Few exist today but a growing number is in development driven by the need to mobilize private capital to support sustainable growth.
Read Full articleDigital financing platforms - a solution to finance smart city projects?
Do you know Jack Mas 3-minute loan? SME can get up to 300.000 USD within a few hours purely using an online service. Juergen Ritzek gives an overview on the state of play of digital financing platforms, structured into three groups.
Read Full articleInnovators: €7.68 million Research and Development funding to dramatically change renovations
The Horizon-project procuRE has released the Research and Development services tender (TED) It calls for the development of breakthrough solutions to renovate existing buildings to be supplied with 100% renewable supply. The deadline for submission is 22.2.22.
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