Periodic Reporting for period 4 - MAtchUP (MAximizing the UPscaling and replication potential of high level urban transformation strategies)
Reporting period: 2021-04-01 to 2023-09-30
Valencia, Dresden and Antalya are a set of advanced cities that have been selected to play the role of LIGHTHOUSE. These cities are carrying out a real pilot of transformation in the energy and mobility sectors , addressing monitoring and evaluation of technological, economic and social assessment. These pilots will reach very ambitious energy savings, CO2 emissions reduction objectives, supported by ICT solutions as main enabler to reach high performance, collect relevant information, fostering open data use, facilitate urban planning and decision making and encouraging citizen and stakeholder’s engagement through well-established ICT Urban Platforms.
MAtchUP’s objective is to create and adopt solutions that can turn urban problems into smart opportunities to improve the citizens’ quality of life and boost the local economies. The final aim is to create a prosperous and more liveable urban environment for communities.
Overall objectives
1. Fostering URBAN TRANSFORMATION through advanced urban planning, capacity building, upscaling and replication.
2. Carry out extensive demonstration of technologies in the energy, mobility sectors, together with a wide deployment of Smart Solutions based on ICTs.
3. Deploy a deep monitoring and evaluation program, analysing technical, social and financial issues.
4. Fostering the identification and development of innovative business models to increase expected impacts.
5. Link MAtchUP with the most relevant clusters and similar projects and city networks to maximize knowledge exchange, impact and replication.
6. Deploy a deep exploitation and market deployment strategy supporting stakeholders in the identification of exploitable results.
7. Deploy an impact based communication and dissemination strategy.
MAtchUP’s objective is to create and adopt solutions that can turn urban problems into smart opportunities to improve the citizens’ quality of life and boost the local economies. The final aim is to create a prosperous and more liveable urban environment for communities.
Overall objectives
1. Fostering URBAN TRANSFORMATION through advanced urban planning, capacity building, upscaling and replication.
2. Carry out extensive demonstration of technologies in the energy, mobility sectors, together with a wide deployment of Smart Solutions based on ICTs.
3. Deploy a deep monitoring and evaluation program, analysing technical, social and financial issues.
4. Fostering the identification and development of innovative business models to increase expected impacts.
5. Link MAtchUP with the most relevant clusters and similar projects and city networks to maximize knowledge exchange, impact and replication.
6. Deploy a deep exploitation and market deployment strategy supporting stakeholders in the identification of exploitable results.
7. Deploy an impact based communication and dissemination strategy.
All the cross-cutting work packages have developed their tasks according to the plan with no deviations. Regarding the demos, a few deviations have been reported.
In WP1, focused on urban transformation, planning and replication, the most remarkable achievements have been the development of a methodology for supporting the urban transformation of the cities, and the delivery of 7 Smart city plans and 7 replication plan, in both cases, one from each MAtchUP city.
WP5 has mainly dealt with the definition of evaluation frameworks at technical, economic and social level, during the first years of the project, and with the compilation of data in the monitoring period, the quality assessment and the final evaluation at technical, economic and social level, too.
The analysis of business models from different perspectives (definition with the financial instruments, barriers to overcome, solutions, assessment, stakeholders) and the project exploitable results, including the market analysis and the plan for their exploitation, have been carried out successfully in WP6.
As for WP7, the collaboration within MAtchUP project and other projects and initiatives has been excellent, mainly with other Lighthouse projects (SCC-01) in the framework of Scalable Cities.
Regarding Dissemination and Communication, WP8 has managed MAtchUP D&C activities. Apart from producing the website, videos, flyers, newsletters, managing social networks and delivering MAtchUP innovation Handbook, WP8 has assessed the impact of MAtchUP D&C activities with a very innovative approach. MAtchUP partners have participated during these six years in the most relevant events related to Smart Cities. Scientific publications?
Regarding the demos, generally speaking, the objectives have been achieved. In Valencia, there have been some difficulties in energy actions with 3 actions cancelled and others with deviations, especially for those related to houses. But, the use of RES, public buildings and public lighting actions have been carried out successfully. Mobility actions have been successful, with a very relevant impact in the boost of electromobility. ICT actions have been a reference, as Valencia had a mature urban platform before the project started. Finally NTA have been carried out with an excellent impact both on the citizenship and the municipality. The extension of the project was necessary so as to accomplish with the monitoring requirement.
In Dresden, the project has fulfilled all the objectives, carrying out their actions on time before the extension of the project at all the pillars. Energy actions have been a reference for the rest of the cities. In mobility, overcoming some barriers that flourished during the project. Both ICT and NTA have also accomplished with their scope and objectives.
As for Antalya, even though there were some problems at the beginning of the project, when a new team started to work at the municipality, the project changed to the better. Mobility and some energy actions were deployed by means of a megatender that included a high number of actions. Due to the complexity of the bureaucracy, this tender had delays that meant the need of an extension of the project.
The coordination of the project has been managed in WP9. The submission of all the 169 deliverables of the project, the 4 periodic reports, the financial aspects and the management of the three amendments of the project
In WP1, focused on urban transformation, planning and replication, the most remarkable achievements have been the development of a methodology for supporting the urban transformation of the cities, and the delivery of 7 Smart city plans and 7 replication plan, in both cases, one from each MAtchUP city.
WP5 has mainly dealt with the definition of evaluation frameworks at technical, economic and social level, during the first years of the project, and with the compilation of data in the monitoring period, the quality assessment and the final evaluation at technical, economic and social level, too.
The analysis of business models from different perspectives (definition with the financial instruments, barriers to overcome, solutions, assessment, stakeholders) and the project exploitable results, including the market analysis and the plan for their exploitation, have been carried out successfully in WP6.
As for WP7, the collaboration within MAtchUP project and other projects and initiatives has been excellent, mainly with other Lighthouse projects (SCC-01) in the framework of Scalable Cities.
Regarding Dissemination and Communication, WP8 has managed MAtchUP D&C activities. Apart from producing the website, videos, flyers, newsletters, managing social networks and delivering MAtchUP innovation Handbook, WP8 has assessed the impact of MAtchUP D&C activities with a very innovative approach. MAtchUP partners have participated during these six years in the most relevant events related to Smart Cities. Scientific publications?
Regarding the demos, generally speaking, the objectives have been achieved. In Valencia, there have been some difficulties in energy actions with 3 actions cancelled and others with deviations, especially for those related to houses. But, the use of RES, public buildings and public lighting actions have been carried out successfully. Mobility actions have been successful, with a very relevant impact in the boost of electromobility. ICT actions have been a reference, as Valencia had a mature urban platform before the project started. Finally NTA have been carried out with an excellent impact both on the citizenship and the municipality. The extension of the project was necessary so as to accomplish with the monitoring requirement.
In Dresden, the project has fulfilled all the objectives, carrying out their actions on time before the extension of the project at all the pillars. Energy actions have been a reference for the rest of the cities. In mobility, overcoming some barriers that flourished during the project. Both ICT and NTA have also accomplished with their scope and objectives.
As for Antalya, even though there were some problems at the beginning of the project, when a new team started to work at the municipality, the project changed to the better. Mobility and some energy actions were deployed by means of a megatender that included a high number of actions. Due to the complexity of the bureaucracy, this tender had delays that meant the need of an extension of the project.
The coordination of the project has been managed in WP9. The submission of all the 169 deliverables of the project, the 4 periodic reports, the financial aspects and the management of the three amendments of the project
MAtchUP solutions aims at providing effective qualitative and quantitative impacts on urban environments. These solutions and activities will be translated into greener and prosper cities build on the needs of their customers .
There are two key issues related to the progress beyond the state of the art:
1. Planning and Replication strategy/methodology
One of the main MAtchUP’s goals is to provide an innovative urban transformation method for guiding cities in the decision making process in 4 steps:
• Diagnosis
• Integrated planning
• Implementation
• Replication plans.
In the first reporting period, a methodology for Advanced city diagnosis and another for Advanced Integrated planning were created during the first RP. It included an analysis of cities’ strategy, financial models and organizational capability.
Both methodologies have been implemented during the 2RP and in the third RP, the focus have been on the application of these methodologies and defining the SCTP to produce a catalogue of the solutions demonstrated in the Lighthouse cities (D1.5) and defining the Smart City strategic plan in the seven cities . Replication pland have been delivered during fourth reporting period.
2. Evaluation process – to SEAP/SECAP recommendations
During 4th RP, Antalya and Kerava have been working in the transition from SEAP to SECAP. Regarding Dresden and Valencia, the monitoring of the existing SECAP is ongoing.
MAtchUP technologies are at TRL 7 or even higher, and their integration will demonstrate very high energy efficiency in districts. These technologies combined with sustainable mobility concepts enabled with ICTs (Urban Platforms) will be proven as accelerators of the urban transformation.
In terms of impacts per city and pillar, as most of the actions have finished, they have been assessed, having reached or even exceeded the expected impacts. Moreover, evaluation frameworks had been designed during the 2RP and the monitorization carried out during fourth reporting period.
There are two key issues related to the progress beyond the state of the art:
1. Planning and Replication strategy/methodology
One of the main MAtchUP’s goals is to provide an innovative urban transformation method for guiding cities in the decision making process in 4 steps:
• Diagnosis
• Integrated planning
• Implementation
• Replication plans.
In the first reporting period, a methodology for Advanced city diagnosis and another for Advanced Integrated planning were created during the first RP. It included an analysis of cities’ strategy, financial models and organizational capability.
Both methodologies have been implemented during the 2RP and in the third RP, the focus have been on the application of these methodologies and defining the SCTP to produce a catalogue of the solutions demonstrated in the Lighthouse cities (D1.5) and defining the Smart City strategic plan in the seven cities . Replication pland have been delivered during fourth reporting period.
2. Evaluation process – to SEAP/SECAP recommendations
During 4th RP, Antalya and Kerava have been working in the transition from SEAP to SECAP. Regarding Dresden and Valencia, the monitoring of the existing SECAP is ongoing.
MAtchUP technologies are at TRL 7 or even higher, and their integration will demonstrate very high energy efficiency in districts. These technologies combined with sustainable mobility concepts enabled with ICTs (Urban Platforms) will be proven as accelerators of the urban transformation.
In terms of impacts per city and pillar, as most of the actions have finished, they have been assessed, having reached or even exceeded the expected impacts. Moreover, evaluation frameworks had been designed during the 2RP and the monitorization carried out during fourth reporting period.