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The Smart Cities Marketplace aims to bring cities, industries, SMEs, investors, researchers and other smart city actors together. By exploring existing solutions and transferring knowledge, shaping project ideas and bringing project proposals to investors to enhance deals …

In this project, industrial and research partners will explore the potential of advanced data analytics to support the renovation challenge of the existing residential building stock by focusing on the Digital Twin concept. The Digital Twin concept will be investigated as an …

The energy transition will take place in cities. ACCESS empowers cities to coordinate local stakeholders for supporting and investing in the transition of Europe’s energy system. With support from:

The project aims to catalyse a lasting cross border collaboration between industry, research and other stakeholders. The goal is to technically enable local manufacturers and building and construction companies to realize cost effective integration of long lengths of solar …

The ECODISTR-ICT project develops an integrated decision support tool that facilitates decision making on the retrofitting and renewal of existing districts and its composing buildings. It connects the main decision makers in urban district transformation programs, acting …

In BAMB, 16 partners from 8 European countries are working together with one mission – enabling a systemic shift in the building sector by investigating and creating circular solutions. The project is developing and integrating approaches, methods and tools that will enable …

A city operating entirely on clean energy. In theory, it's possible. But in real life? How to integrate new solutions in existing buildings, systems and people's lives? What are the technical, economic or social barriers? And how to overcome these? That's what we learn by …

In the SmarThor project, EnergyVille is developing an ICT platform that can control a fully integrated multi-energy system, using EnergyVille’s own algorithms. We aim for real-life and properly functioning demos in residential areas or industrial sites with an optimally …

In this Horizon Europe project lead by Think-E, EnergyVille/VITO and EnergyVille/KU Leuven are working with 21 European partners on the development of novel technologies for building- and infrastructure-integrated photovoltaic systems, which will be demonstrated in nine …

In Europe, and more specifically in Flanders, new and existing building stock must evolve to be climate neutral by 2050. Over the next 27 years, the challenge for owners, the building sector and governments will be enormous. Not only technical questions arise to meet this …

ForestPaths aims to co-design, quantify and evaluate holistic forest-based policy pathways to optimize the contribution of forests and the forest-based sector to climate change mitigation, and which consider the need to adapt forests to climate change, conserve biodiversity …

Partners: imec, Destore, LifePowr, Elia, ORES, Energie Commune, Thomas & Piron Duration: 19 months