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GrowSmarter

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

GrowSmarter aims to:• Improve the quality of life for European citizens by better mobility, housing and the quality of urban infrastructure while improving the citizens economy by lower energy costs and creating as much as 1500 new jobs (on the demonstration level).• Reduce the environmental impact by lower energy needs by 60 % and increased use of renewable energy thus reducing GHG emissions eve ...
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Facility for Large-scale Adaptive Media Experimentation (FLAME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The Future Media Internet (FMI) will be driven by evolving existing over-the-top (OTT) solutions towards a stronger integration with emerging programmable communication and computing infrastructures to address consumer demand for personalised, interactive, mobile and localised media experiences. Creating a trusted platform that brings together technology, creative sectors and consumers in the deve ...
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Decentralised Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem (DECODE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Today’s Internet is becoming increasingly centralised, slowing innovation and challenging its potential to revolutionise society and the economy in a pluralistic manner. DECODE will develop practical alternatives through the creation, evaluation and demonstration of a distributed and open architecture for managing online identity, personal and other data, and collective governance in a citizen-fri ...
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Lane-level positioning and map matching are some of the biggest challenges for navigation systems. Although vehicle telematics provide services with positioning requirements fulfilled by low-cost GNSS receivers, more complex road and driver assistance applications are increasingly been deployed, due to the growing demand. These include lane-level information as well as lane-level navigation and pr ...
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Cloudopting (CloudOpting)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Current situation\n\nThe Smart City concept and the idea of making an efficient use of the data generated by citizens in their daily activities have been around for almost a decade. In a middle-term view, cities were expected to turn into places where both everyday lives would be pretty much easier and connections between citizens much more useful.\n\nHowever, despite its potential, very few succe ...
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Causing peaks in pollution, wasted time and noise nuisance, traffic jams are one of the greatest challenges to overcome for the majority of large cities around the world. It’s a problem that affects the richest countries and developing countries alike, and the possible solutions are as slow to put in place as they are difficult to enforce. Moreover, the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions ...
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Building Energy decision Support systems fOr Smart cities (BESOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The strategic goal of BESOS is to enhance existing neighborhoods with decision support system to provide coordinated management of public infrastructures in Smart Cities, and at the same time provide citizens with information to promote sustainability and energy efficiency.The project will target two main stakeholders: the owners of the infrastructure –municipalities – and its operators – ESCOs. T ...
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Cities embody the twofold challenge currently facing the European Union: how to improve competitiveness while achieving social cohesion and environmental sustainability. They are fertile ground for science and technology, innovation and cultural activity, but also places where problems such as environmental pollution, unemployment, segregation and poverty are concentrated.INSIGHT aims to investiga ...
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Environmentally sustainable data centres for Smart Cities (DC4Cities)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Data centres are involved play two different and complementary roles in Smart Cities' energy policies with two roles: as ICT infrastructures supporting Smart City resource optimization systems - and more in general, delivering for ICT services to the citizens - and as large energy consumers. Therefore there are huge expectations on data centres being able to run at the highest levels of renewable ...
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The iCity project aims at making a step forward in fostering the co-creation of services of public interest by third parties pushing for their space as services provisioners in Smart Cities' urban spaces. This will be done by bootstrapping the involvement of open innovation ecosystems such as Living Labs in bringing the users together in the whole co-creation process using a self-centred methodolo ...
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Commons for Europe (Commons4EU)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Cities face a scenario characterized by shrinking budgets, increasing demands of services from their citizens and the need to reinvent themselves in their quest to become Smart Cities.Simultaneously, the Internet brought new opportunities to orchestrate collaboration, fostering the creation of a large base of commons in code, user generated contents and even telecom infrastructures with the emerge ...
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Evolutive User-centric Networks for Intraurban Accessibility (EUNOIA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Urban transport is essential for citizens to perform their daily activities, but it also constitutes a major source of pollution. The goal of EUNOIA is to take advantage of smart city technologies and complex systems science to develop new models and tools empowering city governments and their citizens to design sustainable mobility policies.EUNOIA will pursue advances in three complementary direc ...
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Smart City Service Development Kit and its Application Pilots (CitySDK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

We will produce three large-scale pan-European smart city service pilots in the eight partner cities. The pilots are in the domains of smart mobility, smart participation and smart tourism. A combination of city organisations' leadership, collaboration between the cities, and a large amount of partners' relevant existing services, interfaces, software, practices and standards in these domains are ...
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Presently it is difficult to use (or re-use) the extensive wealth of information stored in the Public Administration data bases, even though it is widely recognized that such information can be helpful to face a wide range of social needs and promote innovation and business opportunities. Current information systems of PA's are based on monolithic architecture models that include all the applicati ...
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