Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CLIMABOROUGH (Building Green and Climate Neutral City-Hubs)
Período documentado: 2023-01-01 hasta 2024-06-30
The project works to address the many bottlenecks in the transition from prototyping to testing of innovation and from successful testing to market deployment.
In CLIMABOROUGH, we define and promise to test three innovative concepts:
- The “Climate Sandbox”, facilitating under a legal and/or administrative point of view, the diffusion of technologically and socially innovative solutions, whenever they can document a strong capacity of carbon dioxide recapturing or climate change adaptation, much in the same way as in the past, urban transformation initiatives were facilitated by the regulator, whenever they promised to bring high socio-economic benefits;
- The “ClimHub”, which is more than a Lighthouse pilot, in the sense that it promotes and actively works for a faster and more widespread diffusion of sustainable innovations against the climatic threats, leveraging on the evidence-based learning generated by co-creation dynamics seeing startup companies and solution providers involved on a peer basis with local public sector authorities in innovative replication methods;
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The “Climate Service”, consisting in the transformation of climate-related data – together with other relevant information – into customised products such as projections, forecasts, information, trends, economic analyses, assessments,counselling on best practices, development and evaluation of solutions and any other service in relation to climate that may be of use for the society at large.
These three concepts will be tested within a significant number of European cities, characterised by a wide variety in size, interests and geographical location as described in the methodology, namely 8 leaders and 4 follower cities (+2 associates acting as observers). CLIMABOROUGH will provide cities with the tools to improve their capacity to identify, procure and deploy climate neutral services, making them compliant and synchronized with their urban planning strategies.
In CLIMABOROUGH, we define and promise to test three innovative concepts:
- The “Climate Sandbox”, facilitating under a legal and/or administrative point of view, the diffusion of technologically and socially innovative solutions, whenever they can document a strong capacity of carbon dioxide recapturing or climate change adaptation, much in the same way as in the past, urban transformation initiatives were facilitated by the regulator, whenever they promised to bring high socio-economic benefits;
- The “ClimHub”, which is more than a Lighthouse pilot, in the sense that it promotes and actively works for a faster and more widespread diffusion of sustainable innovations against the climatic threats, leveraging on the evidence-based learning generated by co-creation dynamics seeing startup companies and solution providers involved on a peer basis with local public sector authorities in innovative replication methods;
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The “Climate Service”, consisting in the transformation of climate-related data – together with other relevant information – into customised products such as projections, forecasts, information, trends, economic analyses, assessments,counselling on best practices, development and evaluation of solutions and any other service in relation to climate that may be of use for the society at large.
These three concepts will be tested within a significant number of European cities, characterised by a wide variety in size, interests and geographical location as described in the methodology, namely 8 leaders and 4 follower cities (+2 associates acting as observers). CLIMABOROUGH will provide cities with the tools to improve their capacity to identify, procure and deploy climate neutral services, making them compliant and synchronized with their urban planning strategies.
CLIMABOROUGH, in its first 18 months has been working on its steps, moving them on, in particular it has:
1) defined its hubs structure, in 4 phases:
(a) Building Systemic Innovation Capacity to define the state of the art
(b) Data workshop to improve cities data collection for challenge definition
(c) Definition of a draft challenge to be used for the Preliminary Market Consultations
(d) Definition of a use case to be used to define the pilot operation plans of leader cities (leader cities).
2) deployed its first public procurement process, in 5 phases:
(a) Preliminary Market Consultations, run in a hybrid mode in the leader cities to ensure the widest possible participation.
(b) Publication of the call for Tender, allowing all economic operators to request to be allowed to propose a technical proposal.
(c) Technical proposals submission, all selected economic operators (in some cases in consortia) proposed a technical proposal that was evaluated and discussed with them for improvements.
(d) Final technical proposals submission and financial offer, in this phase the consortia proposed a revised technical proposal and a financial offer.
(e) Due diligence, definition of the work plan and partnership agreement finalization, solution providers went through the legal procedures due.
3) Set the deployment phase of solutions, identifying the sandbox structure to be applied during the process of the deployment.
4) Defined the evaluation process of the solutions and pilots.
5) Replication and mentoring, this is still early in the process, but the consortium has worked to define more and more the hubs, also defining a capacity building program.
1) defined its hubs structure, in 4 phases:
(a) Building Systemic Innovation Capacity to define the state of the art
(b) Data workshop to improve cities data collection for challenge definition
(c) Definition of a draft challenge to be used for the Preliminary Market Consultations
(d) Definition of a use case to be used to define the pilot operation plans of leader cities (leader cities).
2) deployed its first public procurement process, in 5 phases:
(a) Preliminary Market Consultations, run in a hybrid mode in the leader cities to ensure the widest possible participation.
(b) Publication of the call for Tender, allowing all economic operators to request to be allowed to propose a technical proposal.
(c) Technical proposals submission, all selected economic operators (in some cases in consortia) proposed a technical proposal that was evaluated and discussed with them for improvements.
(d) Final technical proposals submission and financial offer, in this phase the consortia proposed a revised technical proposal and a financial offer.
(e) Due diligence, definition of the work plan and partnership agreement finalization, solution providers went through the legal procedures due.
3) Set the deployment phase of solutions, identifying the sandbox structure to be applied during the process of the deployment.
4) Defined the evaluation process of the solutions and pilots.
5) Replication and mentoring, this is still early in the process, but the consortium has worked to define more and more the hubs, also defining a capacity building program.
The work carried out brought CLIMABOROUGH to achieve a number of interesting results, moving the project beyond the state of the art. Those are reported below keeping the steps structure of the project:
1) Co-creation process:
(a) Building Systemic Innovation Capacity : 12 cities were analysed to define their start of the art before defining the challenges
(b) Data workshop: 8 cities were analysed from a data point of view to prepare the challenges
(c) Definition of a draft challenge: 8 cities defined their challenges to be proposed during the Preliminary Market Consultations
(d) Definition of a use case: 8 leader cities defined use cases related to their challenges
2) Public procurement process:
(a) Preliminary Market Consultations: about 300 people participated and 85 contributions were received.
(b) Publication of the call for Tender: CLIMABOROUGH received 64 proposals and 44 could move to the following phase, 38 accepted to do so.
(c) Technical proposals submission: 31 proposals could move towards this phase.
(d) Final technical proposals submission and financial offer: the 31 proposals were ranked and 15 of them selected for the contractualisation. .
3) Deployment of solutions, in the first period CLIMABOROUGH started defining the sandbox concept, useful to facilitate under a legal and/or administrative point of view, the diffusion of technologically and socially innovative solutions, whenever they can document a strong capacity of carbon dioxide recapturing or climate change adaptation, much in the same way as in the past, urban transformation initiatives were facilitated by the regulator, whenever they promised to bring high socio-economic benefits.
4) Evaluation of solutions and pilots, to allow the evaluation and the support to cities climate neutrality strategies, CLIMABOROUGH worked to define the basis of a Climate Neutrality Framework (including a monitoring tool) and IT platform definition to make sure that cities acquire the knowledge and know-how to follow, to understand and to link the pilots results to their full climate neutrality strategy. The Climate Neutrality framework is built via the study of 4 of the leader cities (Turin, Grenoble, Cascais and Differdange), while the platform one is built via interactions with all cities.
5) Replication and mentoring, this is still early in the process, but the consortium has worked to define more and more the hubs, also defining a capacity building program, useful for replication purposes, called CLIMAWEBINARS, 4 were held with the participation of many cities, with an overall participation of more than 200 people.
1) Co-creation process:
(a) Building Systemic Innovation Capacity : 12 cities were analysed to define their start of the art before defining the challenges
(b) Data workshop: 8 cities were analysed from a data point of view to prepare the challenges
(c) Definition of a draft challenge: 8 cities defined their challenges to be proposed during the Preliminary Market Consultations
(d) Definition of a use case: 8 leader cities defined use cases related to their challenges
2) Public procurement process:
(a) Preliminary Market Consultations: about 300 people participated and 85 contributions were received.
(b) Publication of the call for Tender: CLIMABOROUGH received 64 proposals and 44 could move to the following phase, 38 accepted to do so.
(c) Technical proposals submission: 31 proposals could move towards this phase.
(d) Final technical proposals submission and financial offer: the 31 proposals were ranked and 15 of them selected for the contractualisation. .
3) Deployment of solutions, in the first period CLIMABOROUGH started defining the sandbox concept, useful to facilitate under a legal and/or administrative point of view, the diffusion of technologically and socially innovative solutions, whenever they can document a strong capacity of carbon dioxide recapturing or climate change adaptation, much in the same way as in the past, urban transformation initiatives were facilitated by the regulator, whenever they promised to bring high socio-economic benefits.
4) Evaluation of solutions and pilots, to allow the evaluation and the support to cities climate neutrality strategies, CLIMABOROUGH worked to define the basis of a Climate Neutrality Framework (including a monitoring tool) and IT platform definition to make sure that cities acquire the knowledge and know-how to follow, to understand and to link the pilots results to their full climate neutrality strategy. The Climate Neutrality framework is built via the study of 4 of the leader cities (Turin, Grenoble, Cascais and Differdange), while the platform one is built via interactions with all cities.
5) Replication and mentoring, this is still early in the process, but the consortium has worked to define more and more the hubs, also defining a capacity building program, useful for replication purposes, called CLIMAWEBINARS, 4 were held with the participation of many cities, with an overall participation of more than 200 people.