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CIRRE keynote: Stakeholders in Positive Energy District Development – +CityxChange Examples
1. Stakeholders in Positive Energy District
Development – +CityxChange Examples
CIRRE 2021 – 6th Conference of Interdisciplinary Research on Real Estate
Enschede / online
16.09.2021
Dr. Dirk Ahlers
Smart Sustainable Cities Group
NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
https://www.ntnu.edu/smartcities
https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/dirk.ahlers
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3. 3 Stakeholders in Positive Energy District Development – +CityxChange Examples
UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
[http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals/goal-11-
sustainable-cities-and-communities.html]
4. 4 Stakeholders in Positive Energy District Development – +CityxChange Examples
Smart City Stakeholders, context, partnerships
Smart City
Company
1
Real
Estate
Company
4
Company
...
Academia
Municipality
National
Actors
City
networks
European
Actors
Company
3
Citizens
Technological solutions do
not operate in a vacuum. Civil
Society
5. 5 Stakeholders in Positive Energy District Development – +CityxChange Examples
Quadruple Helix Innovation Model
• Method used in Innovation,
Urban Planning/Development,
Citizen engagement
• Co-Creation and Open
Innovation
• Involvement and collaboration
of relevant actors
• Structural changes beyond any
one segment
• Smart city means involvement of
all stakeholders in urban
innovation, knowledge sharing,
collaboration
Participatory
Innovation
Industry
Academia
Civil Society
Government
[EU Digital Single Market: Open Innovation2.0 https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/open-innovation-20]
6. Limerick · Trondheim · Alba Iulia · Písek · Sestao · Smolyan · Võru
+CityxChange
SCC1 Lighthouse Project for the
Development of Positive Energy Blocks
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824260.
http://cityxchange.eu/
12. Structure for urban
innovation spaces
• Activate the innovation potential &
innovation ecosystem of a city
• City as a living lab
• Innovation Playgrounds
• Innovation Labs & Citizen
Observatories
• Physical & virtual
• City & Areas & Labs
Example: Trondheim
14. Bold City Vision Framework
City Strategy Transitions
[D3.1 Framework for Bold City Vision, Guidelines, and Incentive Schemes,
https://cityxchange.eu/knowledge-base/framework-for-bold-city-vision-guidelines-and-incentive-
schemes/ ]
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What next?
16. 16 Stakeholders in Positive Energy District Development – +CityxChange Examples
Known problem. Time is running out.
We need radical fast change from business as usual!
[IPCC Report, Climate Change 2021, Summary for Policymakers, IPCC AR6 WGI, https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ ]
[https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/]
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How it can be solved is clear; the difficulty is to persuade
the human race to acquiesce in its own survival.
I cannot believe that this task is impossible.
Bertrand Russell: "The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War", Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists, October 1946.
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Action? Action!
Societal
Action
Individual
Action
Systemic
Action
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Covid-19 brings a new focus on livability
Eden, Janine and Jim from New York City, Street Seating (50076249568), CC BY 2.0
Fabian Deter, Pop-up Radweg auf dem Kottbusser Damm in Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Takeaways
• Smart City is a multi-stakeholder transition process
• Make cities more livable, sustainable, understandable
• Address the climate crisis, make radical change
• “Do cool stuff that matters”
Smart Cities,
Sustainability,
Climate Action
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Q&A
Contact
Dirk Ahlers
search://Dirk Ahlers
@dirkahlers
dirk.ahlers@ntnu.no
https://www.ntnu.edu/smartcities
https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/dirk.ahlers
+CityxChange
Twitter: @plusCities
Web: cityxchange.eu
KB: cityxchange.eu/knowledge-base/