“Reports and publications”

European Union Research and Development Funding on Smart Cities and their Importance on Climate and Energy Goals The scope of this paper is to examine the European Union supporting terms of research And development funding on the topic of Smart cities. A detailed literature review, based on a project-by-project investigation, and data analysis process identified these expenditures since the research on this topic was first funded. The portion of the Sixth and Seventh framework programs funding dedicated to Smart cities is only 3%of the Total energy projects funding and an all time low of 1% is expected within Horizon 2020. The low funding for the investigated field fails to capitalize on the high savings potential represented by the urban primary energy use in Europe. Restructuring the research and development funding distribution for energy could better capture the potential primary energy savings of the European urban sector and contribute to achieving the European Union ́s climate and energy goals for 2020, 2030 and 2050. Please use the link below to download the full paper.

Initial Exploitation Action Plan Executive summary of the first exploitation action plan of SINFONIA, to be further developed until the end of the project.

Definition of KPIs functions for the two pilot cities Executive summary of Deliverable 3.2 on Definition of KPIs functions for the two pilot cities.

Knowledge sharing activities in Bolzano and Innsbruck Executive summary of Deliverable 6.1b on Knowledge sharing activities in Bolzano and Innsbruck

Analysis report of models for financing affordable energy solutions Executive summary of Deliverable 2.3 on Analysis report of models for financing affordable energy solutions

SWOT analysis report of the refined concept/baseline Deliverable 2.1 "SWOT analysis report of the refined concept/baseline" is the first deliverable published by SINFONIA.

Report on transnational challenges and recommendations for local stakeholder involvement This reports aims to give an overview of the challenges encountered and solutions implemented for effective local stakeholder and tenant engagement in the two pilot cities of the Sinfonia project: Innsbruck and Bolzano. As part of the project, the two pilot cities compiled a set of recommendations based on their experiences to share lessons learnt and best practices from the project. The objective of these recommendations is to help other cities implementing effective end-user engagement strategies in future smart city initiatives.