EU Mobility Week
#WeMoveSmart was the social media campaign launched on the occasion of the European Mobility Week (16 – 22 September 2020) by the cities involved in EU-funded smart cities projects. The goal? Inviting citizens to share pictures, videos or short stories on their sustainable way to move around.

ATELIER - Launch of Innovation Atelier Amsterdam
The City of Amsterdam, together with local partners, wants to show that a (part of) the Buiksloterham neighborhood can become Energy Positive, in other words, it supplies more energy than is uses. In the European project ATELIER, a Positive Energy District is being realized in two European cities (Amsterdam and Bilbao). Click here to learn more about it. 

MakingCity - First PED achievement in Groningen 
Since the launch of the MAKING-CITY project in December 2018, Groningen started converting two districts in PED areas. Joep de Boer, from WarmteStad, features the first achievements that have been done in the Dutch city, which is one of the two Lighthouse cities of the MAKING-CITY project. Learn more about it. 

SmartEnCity Network Bulletin no.23
Read about the Italian based SmartEnCity Network and about the testing of the electric bus in Lighthouse City Vitoria-Gasteiz. Find out about the new murals decorating renovated buildings in the two Lighthouse Cities Tartu and Vitoria-Gasteiz. And learn about what is going on in the Smart Cities sister projects. Click here to read the bulletin. 

POCITYF installs 940 solar panels at the demo site De Meent in Alkmaar
The activities to make De Meent (Alkmaar) more sustainable have started! As part of POCITYF project, 940 solar panels are being placed above the parking spaces on the south side of the ice rink. The solar park will also be equipped with a charging plaza with 16 charging points for cars and 20 for bicycles. Six other European participating cities are watching and learning from this sustainability action in Alkmaar. Check it out!

REPLICATE project shared experiences in the Sustainable Places event and European Regions Week during October
The project, co-financed within the H2020 program contract number 691735 (European call SCC1 Smart Cities and Communities) and coordinated by Fomento de San Sebastian,has participated, in October, in several events at European level presenting the actions carried out and exchanging experiences with other European projects. Learn more about it. 

IRIS Factsheets on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)\
The IRIS factsheet on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) presents the experiences from the project’s Lighthouse Cities Utrecht, Nice and Gothenburg that installed stationary electricity storage at district and building level. New Lithium-Ion batteries and 2nd life batteries are used in buildings in Nice and Gothenburg, as well as in the Kanaleneiland-Zuid district in Utrecht. Read the factsheet. 

STARDUST - A sneak peek into Derry's replication actions
On 3 July 2020, the STARDUST project organised an online Capacity Building Workshop (CBWS) for the Follower City of Derry/Londonderry (Northern Ireland, UK) as part of the activities focused on knowledge transfer and its deployment to follower cities. Check out the webinar

RUGGEDISED - Umeå smart solution nominated for ‘Design of the Year’ at London Design Museum
The Station of Being, an innovative bus station at Umeå University created as part of the EU funded RUGGEDISED project, has been nominated for the Beazley Designs of the Year 2020 award, which is presented by the London Design Museum. The Station of Being is one of three nominees in the transport category. Check the full news.