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  30 September 2021  

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Autumn equinox has just passed, and all the leaves are changing colour to warmer golden tones. As it is getting colder, the last quarter of the year is approaching inviting us to have hot drinks while being cuddled up on the couch.

It is not only the season of falling leaves but also the season of smart cities events. The Smart Cities Marketplace will be part of the extended programme of the European Week of Regions and Cities and the Action Clusters are inviting all smart city enthusiasts to participate in their 2021 Action Cluster Meetings. We will also finally be able to meet offline again during the CIVITAS Forum in Aachen! Find more information on all our events below and use this newsletter as a cosy autumn read together with a cup of hot tea.

Your Smart Cities Marketplace team

Smart Cities Marketplace News
Explore, Shape & Deal: Climate Neutral Cities = Smart Cities

The second in a series of four podcasts about Smart Cities has been published. Follow Matthew Baldwin on a mission to create 100 climate-neutral cities by 2030 together with Anthony Colclough.

 
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Explore, Shape & Deal: Make the Match - Striking a Deal between Cities and Finance

The third in a series of four podcasts about Smart Cities has been published. Anthony Colcough is talking to the matchmakers of the Smart Cities Marketplace and Malvine Socaci, Deputy Mayor of Vulcan, Romania about financing projects.

 
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Explore, Shape & Deal: Discover the Smart Cities Marketplace Digital Brochure

Have you already had time to take a look at the digital brochure? All you ever wanted to know about the Smart Cities Marketplace - in its new digital interactive brochure.

 
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News from the Action Clusters of the Smart Cities Marketplace
Explore: MassDOT Aeronautics Division joins UIC2

The Commonwealth (State) of Massachusetts, through its MassDOT Aeronautics Division, has become the first US governmental body to join the UAM Initiative Cities Community (UIC2) of the EU's Smart Cities Marketplace as a UIC2 International City/Region Partner.

 
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Explore: What does energy retrofit mean to you?

As part of procuRE’s work as Action Cluster for Business Models and Finance the project is releasing a series of statements from procurers about what deep energy renovation means to them.

 
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Explore & Shape: Small Giants Go Large

The Small Giants initiative continues to play an important role to provide a strong voice for small to medium-sized cities within the European Smart Cities Marketplace to rebalance the trend of focusing on larger cities.

 
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Explore & Shape: Workshop by the Action Cluster Integrated Planning Policy and Regulation

On 28 October from 3 to 5 PM, the Action Cluster Integrated Planning Policy and Regulation and the Action Cluster Citizens Focus will hold a virtual workshop to support the EuComMeet project’s consortium in selecting the 10 pilot cities.

 
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Explore: Monthly Smart City Guidance Package Tutorials

The Action Cluster Integrated Planning, Policies and Regulation starts with a series of monthly Smart City Guidance Package Tutorials from 21 October 2021 14:00 h onwards.

 
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Explore: Action Cluster meetings of November 2021 - Registration now open

In the first weeks of November, the Action Clusters of the Smart Cities Marketplace welcome Smart City enthusiasts, AC members and all interested stakeholders to take part in their biannual meeting round. Find out more about all the meeting dates as well as the individual registration links in our event section below.

 
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Beyond the Smart Cities Marketplace
Shape: We need you!

Within the IEA EBC Annex 83 (Positive Energy Districts) initiative and in collaboration with COST Action PED-EU-NET, we are collecting existing guidelines and handbooks related to sustainable development of built environment.

 
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Explore: Explore the DECIDE Knowledge Hub

DECIDE is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to gain a better understanding of how energy communities and energy efficiency services are established and managed.

 
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Explore & Shape: The Earth Observations Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements

The EO4SDG Initiative of GEO, the UN-Habitat, and other organisations have published a website dedicated to uses of satellite data to contribute to the achievement of the SDG 11 globally.

 
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Explore & Shape: Support new guidance on public procurement for sustainable infrastructure projects

Are you procuring, funding or supplying public infrastructure? Then you can help develop guidance on public procurement for sustainable infrastructure projects!

 
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Smart City Projects News
Explore & Shape: The Path from Pilot to Scale

The four Smart Cities and Communities projects Smarter Together, Sharing Cities, Replicate and SmartEnCity would like to present a joint research paper.

 
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Explore & Shape: Workshops on Positive Energy Districts

MAKING-CITY project is hosting a series of workshops on Positive Energy Districts in several European countries along with the Green Building Councils network. Check for your local workshops!

 
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Events
Explore: The one billion challenge - how to pay for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities (EUSEW Extended Programme)
The Smart Cities Marketplace is participating in the extended programme of EUSEW 2021 and asks how Climate-Neutral Cities can be financed.
Date
date 11/10/2021
 
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Explore: 19th European Week of Regions and Cities
The European Week of Regions and Cities is an annual four-day event that provides cities and regions with a platform to showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance.
Date
date 11/10/2021 - 14/10/2021
 
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Explore: Fair and inclusive citizen engagement for a new city vision in the energy transition (European Week of Regions and Cities)
Bringing together 23 cities from the EU-funded projects POCITYF, SPARCS and RESPONSE, this session will share insights, tools, and methods for citizen engagement and participation in building resilient and sustainable cities, ensuring fair and inclusive social change towards a clean energy transition.
Date
date 13/10/2021
 
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Explore: The Smart Cities Marketplace - Creating smart cities together (European Week of Regions and Cities)
With this Exhibitor Pitch we will give an overall understanding of the matchmaking process and the principles of the Smart Cities Marketplace.
Date
date 14/10/2021
 
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Explore: Islands as leaders towards net zero - from clean energy vision to energy action (European Week of Regions and Cities)
The Clean energy for EU islands secretariat is participating in the European Week of Regions and Cities 2021 with a workshop on clean energy transition on EU islands.
Date
date 14/10/2021
 
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Explore: Smart Cities Marketplace Matchmaking Meet-up - connecting cities, solutions, and investors (CIVITAS Forum 2021)
The Smart Cities Marketplace is present at CIVITAS as a side event for you on-site in Aachen as well as online! There are different occassions on which you get the chance to meet the Smart Cities Marketplace.
Date
date 19/10/2021
 
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Explore: CIVITAS Forum Conference 2021
This year's CIVITAS Forum will be a hybrid event taking place in Aachen and online simultaneously. Over the course of its two days, it will continue the tradition of offering interactive workshops, intriguing sessions, and interesting site visits, whilst introducing exciting new programme elements.
Date
date 20/10/2021
 
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Explore: EU Sustainable Energy Week 2021
The EUSEW will run from 25 to 29 October 2021, under the theme "Towards 2030: Reshaping the European Energy System" and will cover six elements across the EU: the Policy Conference, EUSEW Awards, European Youth Energy Day, networking, side events and the Energy Days.
Date
date 25/10/2021 - 29/10/2021
 
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Explore: UN Climate Change Conference COP26
From October 31st until November 12th, the COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Stay tuned for more information!
Date
date 31/10/2021 - 12/11/2021
 
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Explore: Action Cluster Meeting Sustainable Built Environment - The construction of value chains responding to the climate and environmental challenges
The meeting of the Action Cluster Sustainable Built Environment will focus on the construction value chain responding to the climate and environmental challenges. Register here to be part of the meeting.
Date
date 02/11/2021
 
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Explore: Action Cluster Meeting Integrated Planning, Policy and Regulations – Together, let’s SHAPE 2022 and EXPLORE opportunities!
The Action Cluster Integrated Planning, Policies and Regulation will give you an update on past activities and the current status of its initiatives. In addition, there will be an interactive discussion on how the future looks for the Action Cluster and its Initiatives
Date
date 08/11/2021
 
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Explore: Action Cluster Meeting Business Models & Finance - From Blockchain to Innovation, from Data to Evidence
This Action Cluster aspires to be a platform of choice for stakeholder-dialogue, and to identify and remove the obstacles for the accelerated development of the smart cities market.
Date
date 10/11/2021
 
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Explore: Action Cluster Meeting Citizen Focus
In a time of urban transformation and digitalisation of smart cities to respond to climate change and demographic challenges, a risk is that too little attention is given to citizens. The Citizen Focus Action Cluster strongly believes in citizens as fundamental actors for the regeneration and development of intelligent communities.
Date
date 15/11/2021
 
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Explore: Action Cluster Meeting Integrated Infrastructures and Processes
Sharing data across city services and stakeholders, and multi-purposing city assets, to achieve desired outcomes, is highly contemporary, absolutely essential, and frustratingly challenging.
Date
date 18/11/2021
 
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Photo credits in order of appearance: Matthew Baldwin, Unsplash (Devin Avery), Steinbeis 2i GmbH, MassDOT Aeronautics Division, Steinbeis 2i GmbH, burst.shopify (Tomáš Hustoles), Canva, Unsplash (Lily Banse), Pexels (Karol D), EBC, DECIDE, Earth Observation Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements, Unsplash (Lance Anderson), Smarter Together, Sharing Cities, Replicate, SmartEnCity and Making City.


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