Integration of socio-economic aspects and analysis of sustainability

European innovation projects are financed to pursue specific objectives. However, their ultimate success is often related to their ability to grasp, along the way, additional positive effects that emerge during the design, implementation and running phase or sometimes even after their end. Task 2.4 aims at providing a clear understanding of the positive effects of the SINFONIA project and, more in general, of smart-energy-city projects. To define and investigate these effects, we adopt the concept of “co-benefits”.