Newsletter Smart Cities Marketplace. 31 March 2021.
Date: 2021-04-06
Institutions: Directorate-General for Energy
Subjects: energy efficiency, serial publication, smart city, sustainable development

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31 March 2021  

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Manic March! 

A matchmaking event on 27 April, the first Smart Cities Marketplace Forum planned 
for June, oversubscribed masterclasses, strategic Action Cluster meetings and our 
video call The Pitch – The Smart City community is keeping busy! 

And more news: a new set of solution booklets on PEDs, Building-Integrated PVs and 
Energy Communities are completed and online – a special thanks to all the H2020 
projects that have contributed. Are you interested in the impact of the EU’s changing 
electricity market? Please see our article below. 

As we said in our November 2020 & January 2021 newsletter, we keep our fingers 
crossed for a 2021 where we’ll be able to meet you all and have one to one 
discussions in person.  

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Smart Cities Marketplace News  

Explore, Shape & Deal: Smart Cities Marketplace – Matchmaking, 27 April 2021  

Kick-start your smart city idea with our 
experts by taking part in this year’s first 
matchmaking event. This conference 
with plenary sessions, workshop sessions 
as well as matchmaking & networking 
opportunities is for you. 

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Explore, Shape & Deal: Smart Cities Marketplace Forum - A Partner Event of the EU 
Green Week, 9-10 June 2021  

This Forum will show how Smart Cities 
act as frontrunners for the EU Action 
Plan toward a Zero Pollution Ambition 
as a key action of the European Green 
Deal. 

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Explore: The impact of the EU’s changing electricity market  

What do the recasts of the Renewable Energy 
Directive, the Directive on common rules for 
the internal market for electricity and the new 
Regulation on the internal market for 
electricity imply for smart and sustainable city 
development? Find out more in our 
respective report. 

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Explore & Shape: Find your solution  

In 12 solution booklets the Smart 
Cities Marketplace has covered 
technologies such as PEDs, Heat Pump 
Driven District Heating Systems (to 
name a few) or a concept such as 
Building Envelop Retrofit or Energy 
communities in around 30 pages. 

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Explore, Shape & Deal: The Pitch – the Smart Cities Marketplace launches a video 
competition  

Explore: Help us help you  

With a call for videos, the Smart Cities 
Marketplace is asking members of its 
Community, the Action Clusters and 
Initiatives as well as other EU funded 
Smart City projects to share videos of 
their smart solutions, services and ideas. 

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The Smart Cities Marketplace team 
would love to get your feedback on 
our website. Therefore, we have 
created a VERY short survey to take in 
your views – these will guide the 
further development of the platform. 

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News from the Action Clusters of the Smart Cities Marketplace  

Explore & Shape: New initiative the “Humble Lamppost” prepares white paper  

The Smart Cities Marketplace Humble 
Lamppost initiative recently commissioned 
research on the role of this city-wide array 
of assets to support response and recovery 
to COVID-19. The white paper will be 
published by the end of March 2021. 

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Explore & Shape: Leading coalition of Dutch cities support launch of Marketplace 
initiative  

On 21 October the Smart Cities Marketplace 
launched a new initiative to create an 
adequate set of framework conditions in the 
field of regulations and laws to fulfil cities 
climate and energy ambitions. The Dutch 
Leading Coalition of cities ‘Smart, Resilient 
& Sustainable’ presented their research. 

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Explore & Shape: Stand for the Smaller Cities and be heard!  

Have you ever felt that the smaller cities don’t 
get a fair share of attention? That they are often 
perceived as too small to bother about; that 
there are too many of them; that they are not 
worth the effort to deal with their ‘small’ 
problems? Well think again and find out more. 

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Beyond the Smart Cities Marketplace  

Explore & Shape: Commission launches new phase for "Big Buyers for Climate and 
Environment"  

The "Big Buyers for Climate and 
Environment" initiative aims to promote 
collaboration between big public buyers in 
implementing strategic public 
procurement for sustainable solutions. The 
initiative, supported by ICLEI and 
Eurocities, is currently establishing working 
Groups. 

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Explore, Shape & Deal: EIT Urban Mobility launches new calls for proposals  

On March 19th, 2021, EIT Urban Mobility 
launched a call for the Innovation 
Programme 2022 focused on our City 
Challenge Areas. This year the focus is set 
on the areas Active Mobility, Sustainable 
Logistics, Energy and Mobility and Future 
Mobility. 

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Explore & Shape: Ready – Set – Go: Phase 2 of the Clean Energy for EU Islands 
Secretariat  

In the beginning of February 2021, the 
European Commission launched a new 
phase of the Clean Energy for EU Islands 
Secretariat. In this second phase, the 
Secretariat will build on the results of 
Phase I to continue its support to energy 
transition of islands in the EU. 

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Explore & Shape: Cities apply for European Green Leaf & European Green Capital 
Award  

The new cycle of European green city awards 
has seen 30 cities from across Europe 
competing to become Europe’s next European 
Green Capital and European Green Leaf Award 
winners. 

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Explore, Shape & Deal: Port cities Thessaloniki and Le Havre on a voyage  

The cities Thessaloniki (Greece) and Le Havre 
(France) are on a voyage towards increased 
citizen participation and digitisation of public 
administration. 

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Explore, Shape & Deal: JPI Urban Europe launched open call  

In the ERA-NET Cofund Urban 
Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) Call, 16 
national research and innovation funding 
agencies from 14 European countries 
(namely members of the Joint Programming 
Initiative Urban Europe) together with the 
European Commission have earmarked a 
global budget of about 18.4 M€. 

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Smart City Projects News  

Explore: INTRODUCING REFLECT - THE MAKING-CITY THINK TANK  

The MAKING-CITY project has launched 
REFLECT, a think-tank whose mission is to 
foster an advanced dialogue between 
stakeholders and experts on the topics of 
Smart Cities and Energy Transition towards a 
common 2050 City Vision. 

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Explore: STARDUST - Another round of smart and sustainable innovation in 
Pamplona  

This year, the Pamplona City Council launched the 
2nd edition of the ‘Smart Pamplona Lab’ 
programme, an initiative that is part of the EU-
funded STARDUST project. 

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Explore: mySMARTLife and partners  

Join mySMARTLife, MatchUp, Making-City, 
POCITYF and STARDUST for a joined webinar 
series – interested in mobility (29 April) or 
energy (27 May or ICT solutions (24 June)? Block 
the last Thursday of the month starting in April 
between 2-3 pm for smart city solutions. 

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Explore: ATELIER - AUAS looking for partners to jointly develop MOOC on PEDs  

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences 
(AUAS), the ATELIER partner responsible for 
cooperation activities with other PED projects, 
is currently developing a Massive Open Online 
Course (MOOC) on PEDs as part of the ATELIER 
project and is looking for partners to join! 

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Explore: POCITYF Peer-to-peer platforms: Shaping a democratic energy model to 
boost renewables  

Prosumers are people who both produce and 
consume renewable energy. New peer-to-peer 
platforms allow them to share, sell or donate 
their power surplus to other citizens. 

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Events  

Explore & Shape: ICLEI World Congress 2021-2022  

Every three years, ICLEI hosts the ICLEI World Congress to showcase how cities, towns 
and regions across our network are advancing sustainable urban development 
worldwide. This year’s edition will be a year-long experience with multiple 
opportunities to connect. It will start with the Virtual Launch on 13-15 April with high-
level discussions on how local and regional governments can continue to advance on 
sustainable development together with ICLEI.  

Date 

13/04/2021 - 15/04/2021  

Venue 

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Explore & Shape & Deal: Smart Cities Marketplace Matchmaking  

Join the Marketplace team for this year’s first matchmaking event “Smart Cities 
Marketplace Matchmaking – Kick start your idea with our experts!” on 27 April 2021 
that takes place completely online! This matchmaking event – promoted by the 
European Commission under the Smart Cities Marketplace – brings together 
city/regional representatives, the Smart Cities Marketplace’s Action Clusters and 
Initiatives, businesses, and investors. It focuses on exploring and shaping 
opportunities for multiple stakeholders involved in smart city projects.  

Date 

27/04/2021  

Venue 

online  

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Explore: EU Green Week 2021  

The European Green Week 2021 will be dedicated to the ‘zero pollution ambition’. It 
will be an opportunity to engage with all stakeholders and interested citizens on how 
we can work together to make the ambition for a zero pollution and toxic-free 
environment a reality.  

Date 

31/05/2021 - 04/06/2021  

Venue 

online  

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Explore: URBIS SMART CITY FAIR  

The URBIS Smart City Fair brings a smart combination of a trade fair and an exclusive 
conference programme, where leaders in the field of Smart City will be introduced. 
For two days dozens of representatives of Central European cities and municipalities 
and leaders in innovations will meet with one goal – to share experience, ideas, and 
examples of specific solutions on how to correctly develop a Smart City concept in 
cities.  

Date 

02/06/2021 - 04/06/2021  

Venue 

online  

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Explore, Shape & Deal: Smart Cities Marketplace Forum  

Join the Smart Cities Marketplace biggest annual event, the Forum (former General 
Assembly). This year’s two-day virtual conference will be an official partner event of 
the EU Green Week. It will be linked to the EU Action Plan toward a Zero Pollution 
Ambition as a key action of the European Green Deal.  

Date 

09/06/2021 - 10/06/2021  

Venue 

Online  

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Explore: Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum  

The Covenant of Mayors (CoM) Investment Forum – energy efficiency finance market 
place will be jointly organised by the European Commissions’s DG for Energy, DG for 
Climate Action and the Executive Agency for small and Medium-sized Enterprises 
(EASME). It will focus on showcasing successful projects on financing energy 
efficiency, climate adaptation, clean mobility, and innovative energy planning.  

Date 

15/06/2021 - 16/06/2021  

Venue 

Online  

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info@eu-smartcities.eu  

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