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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 …

oPEN Lab is a project funded under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Under the coordination of VITO and EnergyVille, 33 partners from 7 countries are collaborating to revitalise urban areas across Europe to lead the transition to Positive …

Meet Circat, a new project developing a circular tender package that evaluates the circularity of building services and technical installations in an independent way, without being manufacturer or product dependent

The study "Energy costs, taxes and the impact of government interventions on investments in the energy sector", carried out on behalf of the European Commission, provides consistent sets of data on generation and system costs and the cost of externalities in the energy …

EnergyVille/VITO, together with KU Leuven and BBRI, developed the MMG assessment framework and calculation model, allowing building professionals and policy makers to assess the environmental performance of building elements. The methodology, following the principles of Life …