MAtchUP project piloted close-to-market smart city solutions in real city environments in Valencia (Spain), Dresden (Germany) & Antalya (Türkiye). The solutions related to energy, mobility, ICT, citizen engagement, urban planning, innovative business, city governance and policies. Kerava (Finland), Herzliya (Israel), Oostende (Belgium) and Skopje (North Macedonia) made implementation plans related to similar solutions. The implemented solutions were measured or simulated during one year before the project interventions (i.e. baseline period) and monitoring during one to three years after the interventions (i.e. monitoring period) to assess the implemented solutions' impacts. The aim is to use the findings to replicate similar solutions in other cities.
Part of the project measurement data is shared on Zenodo.
https://www.matchup-project.eu/ (EU-funded project)
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and Innovation programme under grant agreement N°774477
MAtchUP was a project within the powerful LIGHTHOUSE CITY APPROACH initiative, under the Smart and Sustainable Cities focus area of the EU H2020 framework programme. Valencia, Dresden and Antalya are a set of advanced cities that were selected to play the role of LIGHTHOUSE. These cities carried out a real pilot of transformation in the energy (high performance districts, composed by smart buildings and homes, high ratio of RES and storage systems) and mobility sectors (electrical vehicles and mobility services: logistics, multi-modality, ITS), addressing monitoring and evaluation of technological, economic and social assessment during two years of data collection.
These pilots targeted 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.
Each pillar was identified in MAtchUP with a different colour: yellow colour for Energy; magenta colour for mobility; light blue for ICT and black colour as the intersection of all of them for citizens as they are in the centre of the project. According with this set of colours, one of the slogans of MAtchUP was defined: “MAtchUP: An innovative palette of solutions for your city”
The business ecosystem was also a major target, several innovative business models were validated, and were foreseen to make recommendations to the public authorities in order to overcome at least part of the main legal barriers that are constrain all the potential city progress.