| Project Name | Project Code | Start Date | End Date |
| STARDUST - Holistic and Integrated Urban Model for Smart Cities | ID: 774094 | 01/2017 | 01/2024 |
| ZEN - Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities | 01/2017 | 01/2024 | |
| RESPONSE - Integrated Solutions for Positive Energy and Resilient Cities | ID: 957751 | 01/2020 | 01/2025 |
| POCITYF - A POsitive Energy CITY Transformation Framework | ID: 864400 | 01/2019 | 01/2024 |
| MAKING-CITY - Energy efficient pathway for the city transformation: enabling a positive future | ID: 824418 | 01/2018 | 01/2023 |
| SPARCS - Sustainable energy Positive & zero cARbon CommunitieS | ID: 864242 | 01/2019 | 01/2024 |
| Syn.ikia - Sustainable Plus Energy Neighbourhoods | ID: 869918 | 01/2020 | 01/2024 |
| SmartEnCity - Towards Smart Zero CO2 Cities across Europe | ID: 691883 | 01/2016 | 01/2022 |
| GRETA - GReen Energy Transition Actions | ID:101022317 | 01/2021 | 01/2023 |
| D1P001: Name of the project | |
| D1P001: Name of the project | SPARCS - Sustainable energy Positive & zero cARbon CommunitieS |
| D1P002: Project assigned code | |
| D1P002: Project assigned code | ID: 864242 |
| D1P003: Start date | |
| D1P003: Start date | 10/19 |
| D1P004: End date | |
| D1P004: End date | 09/24 |
| D1P005: Ongoing project | |
| D1P005: Ongoing project | Yes |
| D1P006: Funding programme/financing model | |
| FP7/H2020/HEU/DUT | yes |
| FP7/H2020/HEU | H2020-EU.3.3.1.3. - Foster European Smart cities and Communities |
| Interreg | no |
| National funding | no |
| Public-Private Partnership - please specify | no |
| Other | no |
| D1P007: Estimated project costs (Mill. €) | |
| D1P007: Estimated project costs (Mill. €) | 23.7 |
| D1P008: Description of project objectives/concepts | |
| D1P008: Description of project objectives/concepts | SPARCs’s overall objective is to achieve citizens’ inclusive free-carbon urban community by integrating the following key factors: (1) technologies for energy positivity in buildings and districts, (2) citizen engagement, (3) city planning and governance, (4) flexible grid management and energy storage and (5) e-mobility as an energy system element. SPARCs targets to tackle the multifaceted challenges that cities are called to solve by creating the ecosystems necessary for the urban energy transformation in cities towards a citizens-inclusive Sustainable energy Positive & zero cARbon CommunitieS. The project wants to trigger the urban transformation while keeping a high quality of life for citizens. A top priority is to set up inclusive management and planning models, ecosystems and processes, involving companies, city planning & technical departments of cities, citizen and research organizations, creating an Information Society with citizens being at the centre of the decision process and aware of the city’s activities. |
| D1P009: Description of project upscaling strategies/potential | |
| D1P009: Description of project upscaling strategies/potential | SPARCS will demonstrate innovative interventions of Positive Energy District/Block level in 2 lighthouse cities, and upon implementation and subsequent monitoring and evaluation, SPARCs will ensure effective and successful scaling up and replication both to the city level, to Fellow Cities and to other European and World cities. This will allow getting a framework that is able to adapt, in diverse contexts, with different cultures, environments and at different scales of cities and complexities. The strategy aims at effective facilitation of the replication and upscaling of implemented solutions not only within partner cities but beyond. The strategy assumes three dimensions of replication: 1. upscaling and transfer of the piloted solutions within and between Lighthouse Cities, 2. transfer of solutions from the LHCs to the FCs, 3. broader replication of solutions beyond the partnering cities. |
| D1P010: Number of PED case studies in the project | |
| D1P010: Number of PED case studies in the project | 10 |
| D1P011: Case Study | |
| D1P011: Case Study | |
| D1P012: Description of project expected impact | |
| D1P012: Description of project expected impact |
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| D1P013: Standardization efforts | |
| D1P013: Standardization efforts | To assure successful replication, SPARCs designed an extensive monitoring and evaluation programme with associated Key Performance Indicators, for the holistic assessment of the solutions implemented in the LHCs and their replication potential in the FCs. That includes a) a detailed framework for the holistic assessment of SPARCs actions (aligned with the requirements of the Smart Cities Information System database, SCIS), b) ex-ante evaluation of lighthouse city demonstrations, c) 2-year data gathering programme, d) holistic impact assessment (socio-economic, environmental, technological etc., considering also the KPIs recently proposed by the SET plan action 3.1 to evaluate consumer benefits and citizen engagement in European Energy transition), and e) recommendations for standardization based on implemented experiences and innovative solutions. |
| D1P014: Sources | |
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| D1P015: Can you specify a suitable contact person regarding the load-management approach within your PED project? | |
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| D1P016: Would you be willing to share data from your PED project for research purposes? | |
| D1P016: Would you be willing to share data from your PED project for research purposes? | Yes |
Authors (framework concept)
Beril Alpagut (Demir Energy); Giulia Turci (University of Bologna); Michal Kuzmic (Czech Technical University in Prague); Paolo Civiero (Università Roma Tre); Serena Pagliulia (University of Bologna); Oscar Seco (CIEMAT); Silvia Soutullo (CIEMAT); Daniele Vettorato (EURAC Research, IEA Annex 83); Bailador Ferreras M. Almudena (CIEMAT); Vicky Albert-Seifried (FHG ISE)
Contributors (to the content)
Laura Aelenei (LNEG), Nienke Maas (TNO), Savis Gohari (OsloMet), Andras Reith (ABUD), Ghazal Etminan (AIT), Maria-Beatrice Andreucci (Universita Sapienza), Francesco Reda (VTT, IEA Annex 83), Mari Hukkalainen (VTT), Judith-Borsboom (Locality), Gilda Massa (ENEA), Jelena Ziemele (University of Latvia), Nikola Pokorny (CVUT), Sergio Diaz de Garayo Balsategui (CENER, IEA Annex 83), Matthias Haaze (ZHAW, IEA Annex 83), Christoph Gollner (FFG, JPI UE), Silvia Bossi (ENEA, JPI UE), Christian Winzer (Zurich University of Applied Science), George Martinopoulos (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas), Maria Nuria Sánchez (CIEMAT), Angelina Tomova (Energy Agency of Plovdiv)
Implemented by
Boutik.pt: Filipe Martins, Jamal Khan
Marek Suchánek (Czech Technical University in Prague)
