News
New SmartEnCity Network Bulletin no.15 published
The new edition of the Network Bulletin informs about the growing SmartEnCity Network family, on the succes of our rewarded Lighthouse Cites Sonderborg and Tartu and on Tartu's experiences with retrofitting Soviet-era apartment buildings.
Chinese climate innovation award for Lighthouse City Sonderborg
Sonderborg Municipality has been rewarded with the 'City of Innovation' award, which was presented at the conference 'Euro-China Green & Smart City Summit' held in the Chinese city of Nanning, September 2019. Sonderborg was awarded the prize for working within the EU project - SmartEnCity
SmartEnCity at "Cities After Transition 2019" conference in Belgrade, Serbia
On 27th September, Project Partner UTAR held a session “Smart post-socialist city”. Smart City is a very general term for noting the application of technologies in cities and in reality, it is very often used as a branding term for the cities. Academic research on smart cities has been mostly focused on the contexts of Western and Asian cities, much less is known about Eastern-European and post-socialist cities. This in mind, UTAR organized a session to provoke the discussion about applying new technologies, using new datasets and planning practices in post-socialist cities.
Art season in Lighthouse City Tartu has ended for this year
Within the framework of the SmartEnCity project, the last two wall paintings in Tartu's smart city district were completed at the end of September, with the remaining paintings set to be completed next year.
Lighthouse City Tartu received another two awards for "Energy Actions of the Year"
This year, the City of Tartu won two Energy Action of the Year awards. The awards were presented to Tartu for the implementation of gas buses and the launch of the first Baltic Smart Bike Share.
First Balance after three months of public Bike Sharing in Lighthouse City Tartu
Tartu unveils incredible figures: Since its launch on 8th June, the new smart shared bicycles have covered a distance of more than 1.5 million kilometres with more than 532,000 rides taken. During the summer months, Tartu Smart Bike Share had nearly 20,000 active users. What a success!
Technical workshop with retrofitting experts about thermal bridges in Lighthouse City Vitoria-Gasteiz
On the first days of September, Project Partner VISESA has organized a technical workshop in Vitoria-Gasteiz demo district with some experts in order to exchange technical solutions and best practices on solving thermal bridges in retrofitted buildings within the framework of SmartEnCity.
Coronación demo district will become more beautiful by banishing all visible power lines
Within SmartEnCity project, the Municipality of Vitoria Gasteiz and Iberdrola (Power Distribution Company) have agreed to bury all power lines that are currently visibly mounted on buildings façades under the surface.
Follower City Asenovgrad is proceeding with the Integrated Energy Planning process
As part of the Asenovgrad Integrated Energy Planning Process, a workshop was held on 16 May 2019 with the main aim to bring together local stakeholders and discuss with them the current status and future priorities of the “Integrated Plan for Urban Regeneration and Development” (IPURD) in order to formulate different scenarios for its update. The main topics discussed were focused on the local renewable energy production potential of the municipality, specifically the availability of agricultural biomass and biogas.
Renovation of SmartEnCity buildings in Lighthouse City Tartu is about to be finished
Reconstruction works have been finished on 10 of the 17 apartment buildings that joined the SmartEnCity project, with five more residential buildings set to be completed by the end of this year. Smart home devices, which will help residents to monitor and regulate their energy consumption, are currently being installed in several of the buildings renovated to be near zero energy buildings.