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.