Presentation in the frame of RIS Partner Day, 13 June 2018, Brussels regarding Urban Transitions. Urban transitions refer to integrated solutions for zero carbon resilient cities, decentralized energy, CO2 savings, Blue Green Solutions, air pollution, urban mobility and smart sustainable districts

3. City
District
Building
Technology

4. Climathon
104 cities
45 countries
6 continents
4.455 participants
622 ideas generated
15 City Challenges,
13 cities,
7 countries
>180 solutions sourced
2 Flagship
Programmes
Network of 18
Districts
Reinventing Cities, C40
19 cities, 49 sites

5. Materials production
Regional economies
Industry emissions
Food value chains
Forests in integrated landscapes
Climate-smart agriculture
Climate-risk information
Decision metrics
Climate finance
Networked alumni
Entrepreneurship
Capacity building
Retrofit & clean decentralised energy
Blue-green infrastructure
Mobility

7. Drive a significant increase in urban
retrofit rates and enable district-scale
clean energy production paving the
way for deep cuts in emissions.

8. IMPACT: The CO2 savings stemming from a 2nd Skin renovation
compared to regular renovations are projected at roughly 68 kg
CO2 e/m2/year. Current EU refurbishment rate is far too low to
achieve 2050 targets.
STAGE: Demonstrator.
SCALE: Housing Corporation Waterweg Wonen (Vlaardingen,
NL) committed as a launching customer.

9. IMPACT: Improves energy performance, potential to
reduce CO2 emissions by 5% through façade renovation;
dematerialisation, shifting from a product to a service
based model.
STAGE: Piloted innovation idea.
SCALE: Climate-KIC Benelux region, The Netherlands, TU
Delft.

10. Harness the force of nature in
infrastructure design to build
liveable, climate-resilient cities.

11. IMPACT: The campus has made energy reductions by 92% on
cooling and 68% on heat, compared to conventional heating
and cooling systems.
STAGE: Delivered its first commercial successes, incl. a new
campus at the University of Zagreb.
SCALE: Developed 13 demonstration sites across Europe
through Climate-KIC’s partner network. Initial project has
become a larger scale project and a spin-out consultancy
firm, Blue Green Global.

12. IMPACT: each unit has the potential effect of up to 275
average urban trees binding up to 240t of CO2 equivalents
annually.
STAGE: The company has already generated more than €1
million turnover with over 30 CityTrees sold. Starting in
spring 2017, six CityTrees be will installed in Modena.
SCALE: Units sold in both Asia and Europe.

13. Trigger the switch to clean urban
mobility to achieve considerable cuts
in urban transport emissions

14. IMPACT: Bringing together operation planning with technical
models and optimisation algorithms. 430,000 buses in Europe
cause 30 million tons CO2 annually.
STAGE: Pathfinder 2010, now Demonstrator aiming to next
develop a self sustaining business model.
SCALE: Conducted 2 use cases in Birmingham and Berlin,
ebusplan service used for several commercial customers, for
example: Movia, the transport authority of Copenhagen and
Eastern Denmark, and MAN bus and trucks.

15. Retrofit and
decentralised energy
Green Resilient Cities
Urban Mobility
Urban Transitions
Portfolio Highlights
London
France Zurich
Vlaardingen
Copenhagen
Germany
Rimini
Modena
Brussels
Lisbon
Gothenburg
Veijle
Cyprus
Helsinki
Sofia
Malmö
Aarhus
Berlin
Valencia
Birmingham
Utrecht

17. Integrated systems –
transforming districts into smart
and sustainable neighborhoods

18. EXAMPLE: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – London.
IMPACT: Complex energy optimisation delivered.
15% reduction in carbon coefficient for district heating/
cooling networks and 30% operational energy
reductions for the Zaha Hadid London Aquatics Centre.
SCALE: Working in London, Paris, Berlin, Utrecht,
Gothenburg, Malmo, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and
Rotterdam.

19. Sustainable solutions
Valletta, Malta
Supporting delivery
against ambition for
Valletta to become a a
zero-carbon capital by
2030
Valencia, Spain
Masterplan for La
Pinada district now
includes measures to
reduce building
carbon emissions by
50%
Helsinki, Finland
Smart City framework
and metrics
developed for
measuring impact of
actions in Kalasatama
district
Smart District Data
Infrastructure
Prototypes of
revolutionary new
approach to open and
integrated urban data
management developed
and tested against
tangible ‘use cases’
links to EIT-Digital ‘city
enabler' initiative
Smart Sustainable Districts
Portfolio Highlights 2017
Malmö, Sweden
Concept for a
neighbourhood-based
development fund
developed focused on
Sofielund district
Helsinki
Malmö
Valencia
Valetta