Project information

PROJECT TITLE: Building Green and Climate Neutral City-Hubs

ACRONYM: CLIMABOROUGH

Description:

CLIMABOROUGH is a project, co-funded by the European Union and CINEA, with the ambition to bridge the gap between design and implementation of urban innovations, particularly in the face of climatic change and its consequential needs for adaptation and mitigation.

CLIMABOROUGH is one of the 3 projects chosen by CINEA to work on Urban Planning and Design in the framework of the ‘100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities‘ Mission.

The project, coordinated by ANCI Toscana and counting on 27 other partners, works to fight the many bottlenecks in the transition from prototyping to testing of innovation and from successful testing to market deployment.

In CLIMABOROUGH, we define and promise to test three innovative concepts:

1. The “Climate Sandbox”, facilitating under a legal and/or administrative point of view, the diffusion of technologically and socially innovative solutions, whenever they can document a strong capacity of carbon dioxide recapturing or climate change adaptation, much in the same way as in the past, urban transformation initiatives were facilitated by the regulator, whenever they promised to bring high socio-economic benefits;
   
   
2. The “ClimHub”, which is more than a Lighthouse pilot, in the sense that it promotes and actively works for a faster and more widespread diffusion of sustainable innovations against the climatic threats, leveraging on the evidence-based learning generated by co-creation dynamics seeing startup companies and solution providers involved on a peer basis with local public sector authorities in innovative replication methods;
   
   
3. The “Climate Service”, consisting in the transformation of climate-related data – together with other relevant information – into customised products such as projections, forecasts, information, trends, economic analyses, assessments,counselling on best practices, development and evaluation of solutions and any other service in relation to climate that may be of use for the society at large.

These three concepts will be tested within a significant number of European cities, characterised by a wide variety in size, interests and geographical location as described in the methodology, namely 8 leaders and 4 follower cities (+2 associates acting as observers).

Consortium consists of:

1. ANCI TOSCANA Coordinator ANCI Italy
2. HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM HEREON Lead of climate evaluation HEREON Germany
3. MAJOR CITIES OF EUROPE Lead of Dissemination MCE Germany
4. INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM Lead of Digital Twins IMT France
5. NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NEB & Dissemination NTNU Norway
6. UNIVERSITY OF AALBORG Lead of Citizens’ engagement AAU Denmark
7. POLITECNICO DI MILANO Lead of Urban planning POLIMI Italy
8. SYNDICAT INTERCOMMUNAL DE GESTION INFORMATIQUE Lead of platform management SIGI Luxembourg
9. DATEN-KOMPETENZZENTRUM STÄDTE UND REGIONEN Lead of Data DKSR Germany
10. LINKS FOUNDATION Lead of exploitation LINKS Italy
11. URBANDNA Lead of Hubs and co-creation UDNA UK
12. URBAN LAB City Angel ULAB Italy
13. ENERGY CITIES City Angel ENEC France
14. EZAVOD Lead of lending/fundraising EZAVOD Slovenia
15. CITY of SOFIA City leader SOFIA Bulgaria
16. CITY of TURIN City leader TORO Italy
17. CITY of IOANNINA City leader IOA Greece
18. CITY of MARIBOR City leader MARI Slovenia
19. ZUM d.o.o. urbanizem, planiranje, projektiranje Affiliated to City of Maribor ZUM Slovenia
20. CITY of ATHENS (DAEM) City leader ATH Greece
21. CITY of CASCAIS City leader CAS Portugal
22. CITY of DIFFERDANGE City leader DIFF Luxembourg
23. GRENOBLE ALPES-METROPOLE City leader GAM France
24. CITY of KRK City Follower KRK Croatia
25. CITY of KATOWICE City Follower KATO Poland
26. CITY of PILSEN (SITMP) City Follower PILS Czech Rep.
27. CITY of PRIJEDOR City Follower PRI BiH
28. Development Agency „PREDA“ Prijedor Affiliated to City of Prijedor PREDA, BiH

Timeline: 48 months (01.1.2023-31.12.2026).

Web site: https://climaborough.eu/

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.