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European Innovation Partnership - Smart Cities

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EUROPEAN INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP- SMART CITIES

The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC) brings together cities, industry and citizens to improve urban life through more sustainable integrated solutions. This includes applied innovation, better planning, a more participatory approach, higher energy efficiency, better transport solutions, intelligent use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), etc.

The Partnership aims to overcome bottlenecks impeding the changeover to smart cities, to co-fund demonstration projects and to help coordinate existing city initiatives and projects, by pooling its resources together.

The first public draft of the Operational Implementation Plan , and the operational annex to the Strategic Implementation Plan, has now also been published and gives a wealth of detailed examples for integrated smart city solutions.

Stakeholders wishing to get involved in one of the 6 Action Clusters set up so far were selected through an "Invitation for Commitment" application process. This Invitation for Commitment, which closed on 15 June 2014, invited interested parties to join the EIP by stepping forward and supporting its objectives in any of the eleven focus areas identified in the Strategic Implementation Plan.

A commitment is an intention to provide a measurable and concrete engagement in support of one or more focus areas over the next year or a longer period of time, linking energy, transport and ICT in the urban context. 441 commitments were submitted by groups of stakeholders spanning the public and private sector out of which 370 were selected to build up the Action Cluster.

An Action Cluster is an assembly of partners committing to work on specific issues related to smart cities, by sharing the knowledge and expertise with their peers, giving added-value to their national and local experience and identifying gaps that need to be fulfilled at European level.

The 6 Action Clusters which have been set up so far are:

Business models.
Citizen Focus.
Integrated infrastructure & processes (including Open Data).
Policy & Regulations / Integrated planning.
Sustainable Districts and Built Environment.
Sustainable Urban Transport.

No new Invitation for Commitments is foreseen for 2014, but it is possible to join an Action Cluster or an existing commitment. List of commitments: http://eu-smartcities.eu/commitments.

UMA participates in the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC) in the Action Cluster of Integrated Infrastructures and processes in the area of Integrated Infrastructures and processes across Energy, ICT and Transport. More information: http://eu-smartcities.eu/commitment/4298