Step Up Smart Cities

Our final STEP UP Newsletter has just gone out to our subscribers.  The newsletter has information updating you on each city's progress, SEAP and recent events and achievements. Click here to view our newsletter.

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This interactive workshop will bring together excellence from several advanced European Smart Cities projects that will put forward their expertise and their project results on integrated planning, energy efficiency and district energy solutions, among others.

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The Institute for Future Cities (IFC) has published a new brochure for the MSc Global Sustainable Cities.

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In mid-June the Smart Cities Network in Gothenburg met for the fourth time since 2013. This time the focus of the meeting was how large scale European projects can strengthen the city’s own strategies and goals on a local level and how working in projects can add long term value to the city.

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The City of Ghent launched a new tool to stimulate the purchase of solar panels. On a digital map the solar potential of every roof in Ghent can be assessed. With this tool, citizens, shop owners and companies can easily discover how suitable their roof is for solar panels, and how much solar energy they can produce.

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Alco Bio Fuel, industrial gases specialist Messer and IJsfabriek Strombeek invest 15 million euros in re-use of CO₂ in the Port of Ghent

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Cities are very much at the heart of our ever-expanding world. Future cities research at the University of Strathclyde focuses on improving the quality of the city experience, through developing a better approach to the use of city assets.

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Anna Wenstedt and Peter Rydberg from the Environmental Administration, City of Gothenburg, were invited by the World Bank to participate in a workshop on climate strategies in Yokohama, Japan, March 23-27.

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The Glasgow STEP UP team would like to invite you to attend a training workshop on Monday 20th April 2015. The session will introduce two key tools that can assist local authorities in different aspects of sustainable city planning:

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If you couldn’t join us in person for our STEP UP Conference in Riga, that starts tomorrow and runs until Friday; you can still join us via the internet through the link below.  This will lead you to a live stream of the conference. 

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Members of the STEP UP team from Riga Technical University have published an article - "Concept of Smart City: First Experience of City of Riga" in the Journal of Sustainable Architecture and Engineering" of Kaunas University of Technology.

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A sustainability meter for economic sites has been developed through the ACE (Answers to the Carbon Economy) project. The various steps to be taken to ensure a sustainable project are clearly set out in this compendium. Sustainability and sustainable building are clearly defined and given concrete form.

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Frihamnen (The Free Port) – is an area of Gothenburg which until the decline of the shipbuilding industry in the 1980s had an important role in the city’s industrial sector. Since then, the area has been underdeveloped and an unused resource. There are large areas of centrally located land close to the river which holds great potential for creating attractive homes and workplaces for many people.
At a workshop at Älvstranden Utveckling AB (the River Bank Development Corporation), on the 17th of February, the STEP UP partners of Gothenburg: the city council representatives, Älvstranden and SP teamed up discuss how the climate Strategy objectives and the vision for Älvstaden (the river city vision) can be linked with the Free Port challenges, and how pipeline projects from the STEP UP project could be involved in the process.

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The Committee of the Regions holds the penultimate conference from its series on how cities and regions are addressing the Europe 2020 strategy.

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