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European Union Research and Development Funding on Smart Cities and their Importance on Climate and Energy Goals The scope of this paper is to examine the European Union supporting terms of research And development funding on the topic of Smart cities. A detailed literature review, based on a project-by-project investigation, and data analysis process identified these expenditures since the research on this topic was first funded.   The portion of the Sixth and Seventh framework programs funding dedicated to Smart cities is only 3%of the Total energy projects funding and an all time low of 1% is expected within Horizon 2020.   The low funding for the investigated field fails to capitalize on the high savings potential represented by the urban primary energy use in Europe. Restructuring the research and development funding distribution for energy could better capture the potential primary energy savings of the European urban sector and contribute to achieving the European Union ́s climate and energy goals for 2020, 2030 and 2050.   Please use the link below to download the full paper. Initial Exploitation Action Plan Executive summary of the first exploitation action plan of SINFONIA, to be further developed until the end of the project. Definition of KPIs functions for the two pilot cities Executive summary of Deliverable 3.2 on Definition of KPIs functions for the two pilot cities. Knowledge sharing activities in Bolzano and Innsbruck Executive summary of Deliverable 6.1b on Knowledge sharing activities in Bolzano and Innsbruck Analysis report of models for financing affordable energy solutions Executive summary of Deliverable 2.3 on Analysis report of models for financing affordable energy solutions SWOT analysis report of the refined concept/baseline Deliverable 2.1 "SWOT analysis report of the refined concept/baseline" is the first deliverable published by SINFONIA. Report on transnational challenges and recommendations for local stakeholder involvement This reports aims to give an overview of the challenges encountered and solutions implemented for effective local stakeholder and tenant engagement in the two pilot cities of the Sinfonia project: Innsbruck and Bolzano. As part of the project, the two pilot cities compiled a set of recommendations based on their experiences to share lessons learnt and best practices from the project. The objective of these recommendations is to help other cities implementing effective end-user engagement strategies in future smart city initiatives. Eco-Buildings: Synthetising report with the Hand-Over Certificates Signed This report summarises the actions carried out and comprises the innovative building refurbishments in the pilot city Innsbruck and gives detailed information about the implemented measures. Life Cycle Assessment report of the demonstration Deliverable D9.3 has three main objectives:- To present the methodology, hypotheses and outcomes of the Life Cycle Analysis of the energy saving measures implemented in selected buildings in Bolzano (Italy) and in Innsbruck (Austria), based on the input data provided by the building owners, members of the SINFONIA consortium (analysis performed by DOWEL) .- To present the methodology, hypotheses and outcomes of the Life Cycle Analysis of the measures carried out on the district heating networks in Bolzano and in Innsbruck, based on the input data provided by the local utilities Alperia and IKB, members of the SINFONIA consortium (analysis performed by RISE).- To explore the applicability of LCA at the district scale. Impact assessment for the remaining 20 Member States The objective of deliverable 9.6 is to evaluate the replication potential of the SINFONIA approach in the 20 European countries that have not been represented in the project as pilot cities (Austria and Italy) or as Early Adopter Cities (Cyprus, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden).The main output of the SINFONIA project is the “district template” approach: a comprehensive interdisciplinary refurbished city district model for middle-sized European cities, which objective is to facilitate the implementation and replication of large-scale refurbishment plans by providing optimal retrofitting solution for each type of district.District model analysed in the project answers mainly to the retrofitting need of pilot cities, Innsbruck and Bolzano, located in Austria and Italy. Both cities, however, are fully representative of a medium-size city in Europe and of their energy needs and constitute thus a sound foundation to replication actions. With the aim to identify the countries that can benefit the most form the SINFONIA approach, we have conducted a classification of the 25 remaining countries according to their “distance” to the reference situation. This distance was assessed based on a comparison of key characteristics of each city in comparison to the pilot cities.Five dimensions have been analysed to elaborate this classification:1. National policies and regulation, as a contextual parameter impacting energy retrofit at city, district or building scales2. Sociological features about eco-innovation, referring to the readiness of citizens with regard to energy transition3. Urban profile as a composite index characterizing the residential building stock in urban areas of the country4. Energy price, as a global driver ruling energy refurbishment (and more generally energy transition) economics5. Climate zone, since directly impacting the energy needs and the type of solutions among the SINFONIA portfolio of options.
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