REPLICATE, “Renaissance of PLaces with Innovative Citizenship And TEchnology”, is funded by a 29M grant from Horizon 2020, the main EU program fostering research and innovation actions. This project belongs to the “Lighthouse” call (Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT sectors through lighthouse (large scale demonstration - first of the kind) projects), one of the most competitive in the program. REPLICATE aims to increase the quality of life for citizens across Europe by demonstrating the impact of innovative technologies used to co-create smart city services with citizens, and prove the optimal process for replicating successes within cities and across cities. In particular, Dr. Igor Calzada (PhD), MBA, will lead – as the person in charge of the project from the University of Oxford, experts in smart city replication strategies and implementions –, the WP8 Replication which will contribute to innovative solutions and methodologies in the field of city-to-city learning and benchmarking. In particular, the strategic and ethnographic analysis will take account of the lessons learnt by the ongoing ESRC Urban Transformation portfolio. Similarly, the replication and adaptability plans of the follower, lighthouse and observer cities will be based on the policy transfer and knowledge exchange foundations that the Future of Cities programme and the ESRC Urban Transformations portfolio is currently developing.

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
REPLICATE, “Renaissance of PLaces with Innovative Citizenship And TEchnology”, is funded by a
29M grant from Horizon 2020, the main EU program fostering research and innovation actions. This
project belongs to the “Lighthouse” call (Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy,
transport, ICT sectors through lighthouse (large scale demonstration - first of the kind) projects), one of
the most competitive in the program.
REPLICATE aims to increase the quality of life for citizens across Europe by demonstrating the impact
of innovative technologies used to co-create smart city services with citizens, and prove the optimal
process for replicating successes within cities and across cities.
San Sebastian is the leading municipality of this consortium of 36 members, and will, together with
Bristol and Florence, act as “lighthouse” cities for follower cities such as Essen (Germany), Lausanne
(Switzerland) and Nilüfer (Turkey), which will subsequently apply the optimized, demonstrated and
validated model.
University of Oxford, Urban Transformations ESRC and the Future of Cities Programme, is a member of
this consortium, along with the following partners:
• Local authorities: San Sebastian, Bristol (UK), Florence (Italy), Essen (Germany), Lausanne
(Switzerland) and Nilüfer (Turkey), Bogotá (Colombia) and Guanghzou (China).
• Private firms: Toshiba Research Europe, Ikusi, Endesa, Tecnalia, Euskaltel, Bristol Is Open –
among other partners.
• Academia: University of Bristol, ESADE, University of the West of England, Tecnalia Research
& Innovation, Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze – among other partners.
In particular, Dr. Igor Calzada (PhD), MBA, will lead – as the person in charge of the project from the
University of Oxford, experts in smart city replication strategies and implementions –, the WP8
Replication which will contribute to innovative solutions and methodologies in the field of city-to-city
learning and benchmarking. In particular, the strategic and ethnographic analysis will take account of the
lessons learnt by the ongoing ESRC Urban Transformation portfolio. Similarly, the replication and
adaptability plans of the follower, lighthouse and observer cities will be based on the policy transfer and
knowledge exchange foundations that the Future of Cities programme and the ESRC Urban
Transformations portfolio is currently developing.

2. RATIONALE:
An ongoing renaissance is taking place in cities; smart technologies are changing the way cities work
forever. These technologies have the potential to create efficient, integrated, interactive urban
environments that give citizens more ways to participate in and contribute to the way their city operates.
Developments in software, hardware and telecommunication networks are enabling more interaction
between people and places and more machine-to-machine communication in the Internet of Things.
Leading cities in the world are deploying standalone pilots of these technologies to tackle familiar urban
problems such as traffic congestion, poor air quality and unsustainable energy use. The real challenge for
cities though is in integrating and scaling up these pilots within cities, and sharing experiences with others
to facilitate wider replication. Through the Systems Thinking in Energy Efficient Planning (STEEP)
project (http://www.smartsteep.eu/), Florence, San Sebastián and Bristol have devised and utilised a
methodology for generating Smart City Masterplans. The REPLICATE project will see us build on this
work to deliver these comprehensive Smart City Plans in our demonstration areas, and set out a process
for facilitating uptake and replication of impactful smart city services across Europe.
The key to our approach is in recognising the inherent complexity of urban challenges and the
distinctiveness of individual cities. We are advocating innovative approaches to citizenship, with the aim
of involving citizens as stakeholders at all stages of our activities to help us co-create appropriate
solutions and services which celebrate and work successfully with the characteristics and context of each
individual metropolitan area in each lighthouse and follower cities.
The partnership has worked successfully on the Systems Thinking in Energy Efficient Planning (STEEP)
Project and developed close strategic relationships between the target cities. The lead and follower cities
are of similar sizes but reflect different geographical contexts. Over 36% of European cities have between
100,000-500,000 inhabitants. San Sebastián, Florence and Bristol as lead cities, and Essen, Lausanne and
Nilüfer as the follower cities, offer a good distribution of population between 180,000 to 550,000 around
this highly representative range. The REPLICATE project will demonstrate how these cities can
successfully reproduce effective smart services by identifying their strengths and working closely with
citizens to ensure the appropriateness of solutions and maximising uptake.
All of the partner cities are making considerable progress towards becoming smart cities, with each
individual city holding particular expertise in this current transition, for example; Bristol in ICT, Florence
with electric vehicles and San Sebastián in energy efficient buildings. The Consortium incorporates Cities
from the north, south, central and west of Europe, and includes significant international observer cities
(Guangzhou and Bogota) and extensive European and international networks including Eurocities, Major
Cities of Europe, and iCanada. Combined with other networks the partner cities are active in (for
example, European Green Capital and Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities) the capacity to disseminate,
replicate and open up commercial
opportunities is significant.
The mix of partners directly involved or supporting the REPLICATE project will see these key cities and
hugely experienced technology partners such as TREL, TELECOM, NEC, ENEL, ENDESA and
THALES working alongside highly innovative SMEs and respected community organisations in each city
to create a powerful public-private-citizen partnership that will deliver
impacting, sustainable and effective outcomes across the partner cities, throughout Europe and
internationally.