JPI Urban Europe is a joint programming initiative. The aim is to create attractive, sustainable and economically viable urban areas, in which European citizens, communities and their surroundings can thrive
Just in time for a new series of the popular webinars Urban Lunch Talks to launch, we now gather all previous episodes
Today I’m talking to Nicolás Pardo about the project Surecity. It’s a project which aims to give city developers a holistic view of how their future energy mix could look in cities. Nicolás works at the Austrian Institute of Technology and he’s the coordinator for Surecity. His academic background is focused on energy systems, so he seems like the perfect person to coordinate this project. I ask Nicolás to tell me in a single sentence what the project is about. He says, “it’s about creating a platform which allows cities to develop their energy and environment abatement strategies in a easy manner.” Seems like a great aim to me, so I say, “how are you going to do this?”
In cooperation with the project managers, JPI Urban Europe is producing project videos. In this series CODALoop tells us about how their project aims to reduce cities’ energy footprint through behavioral change.
Today I’m talking to Erik Verhoef from the Vrije Universiteit about the project IP-SUNTAN. He doesn’t waste any time. He immediately launches
The SmartGov coordinator Dr Gregor Eibl from Danube University Krems from Austria, along with other members of the SmartGov team, from various countries, provide short
Malena Donato is the coordinator of SMART-FI: it’s a project seeking to unlock the potential of open data, which involves the cities
Two pilots have been conducted during the project period, one in the municipality Quart de Poblet in Spain and one in the