Presentation delivered by Harald Rohracher (Professor, Dept. of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden) for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Presentation done at the London Summit of the Leaders the 16th April 2014.
http://www.summitofleaders.co.uk/en/speakers-london-summit-of-leaders-11-12-april-2014
Collection Methodology for Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable C...ITU
These indicators have been developed to provide cities with a consistent and standardised method to collect
data and measure performance and progress to:
achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
becoming a smarter city
becoming a more sustainable city
The indicators will enable cities to measure their progress over time, compare their performance to other
cities and through analysis and sharing allow for the dissemination of best practices and set standards for
progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city level.
For more information visit: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ssc/united/Pages/default.aspx
Presentation done at the London Summit of the Leaders the 16th April 2014.
http://www.summitofleaders.co.uk/en/speakers-london-summit-of-leaders-11-12-april-2014
Collection Methodology for Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable C...ITU
These indicators have been developed to provide cities with a consistent and standardised method to collect
data and measure performance and progress to:
achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
becoming a smarter city
becoming a more sustainable city
The indicators will enable cities to measure their progress over time, compare their performance to other
cities and through analysis and sharing allow for the dissemination of best practices and set standards for
progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city level.
For more information visit: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ssc/united/Pages/default.aspx
Policy Drivers for Eco Cities: Karuna Gopal, President, Foundation for Futuri...www.theurbanvision.com
Building Livable Cities : a multi city investigation on ideas that can make Indian cities livable. See: www.theurbanvision.com/blc
Karuna Gopal, President, Foundation for Futuristic Cities
For the first time, more people live in cities than in rural areas, bringing new challenges. ICT is playing a critical role in addressing these challenges and benefiting society.
Connecting Cities, Technologies and Citizens – the Swiss-European-Japanese pr...Stephan Haller
Smart Cities is a lot about connectivity and networking, not just in the technical sense. This talk given at a mini-symposium of the Swiss Informatics Society in May 2019 highlights this using the EU-Japan Horizon 2020 project CPaaS.io.
The full talk is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kmh26qUnGh8
The Government of Alberta, the City of Edmonton and the City of Calgary are working to create city charter policies to build strong, vibrant cities that attract trade and investment. Learn more: http://www.alberta.ca/city-charters.aspx
Policy Drivers for Eco Cities: Karuna Gopal, President, Foundation for Futuri...www.theurbanvision.com
Building Livable Cities : a multi city investigation on ideas that can make Indian cities livable. See: www.theurbanvision.com/blc
Karuna Gopal, President, Foundation for Futuristic Cities
For the first time, more people live in cities than in rural areas, bringing new challenges. ICT is playing a critical role in addressing these challenges and benefiting society.
Connecting Cities, Technologies and Citizens – the Swiss-European-Japanese pr...Stephan Haller
Smart Cities is a lot about connectivity and networking, not just in the technical sense. This talk given at a mini-symposium of the Swiss Informatics Society in May 2019 highlights this using the EU-Japan Horizon 2020 project CPaaS.io.
The full talk is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kmh26qUnGh8
The Government of Alberta, the City of Edmonton and the City of Calgary are working to create city charter policies to build strong, vibrant cities that attract trade and investment. Learn more: http://www.alberta.ca/city-charters.aspx
Smart cities - Comparison among EU modelsMirko Podda
The general objective of the work is to compare cities in different european countries. Our research is focused on giving a general overview of smart cities situated in Germany, Poland and Sardinia.
Starting from two European programs named: “The Smart Cities and Communities EIP” and “The Covenant of Majors”, we show how the cities object of our study have used these ones in order to be “Smarter”.
A city can be defined ‘smart’ when invests in human & social capital, traditional and modern communication infrastructures, sustainable economic development and a high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory action and engagement. A City can be considered "smart" when achieves evaluable performances considering 6 characteristics, built on the ‘smart’ combination of activities of self-decisive, independent and aware citizens.
1. Letter to all state governments to shortlist potential Smart Cities based on Stage-I criteria according to a number of Smart Cities distributed across states /UTs by the MoUD. This is the first stage of the Intra-State competition.
2. On the basis of response from States/UTs, the list of potential 100 Smart Cities is announced. The second stage of the All India competition begins.
3. Each potential Smart City prepares its proposal assisted by a consultant (from a panel prepared by MoUD) and a hand-holding External Agency (various offers received such as World Bank, ADB, GEF, USTDA, JICA, DFID, AFD, KfW, UN-Habitat)
4. By stipulated date, Stage 2 proposals submitted. Evaluation by a panel of experts.
5. Selected cities declared – Round 1 Smart Cities
6. Selected cities set up SPV and start the implementation of their SCP. Preparation of DPRs, tenders, etc. and Other cities prepare to improve their proposal for the next round of the Challenge
CUD Conference BREAKOUT Agenda - Amsterdam 23-24 September 2008Shane Mitchell
Breakout sessions agenda detailing speakers and themes across the two day conference bringing together thought leaders from business, city governments and academia to share knowledge, experiences and collaborate to drive forward the CUD program.
Talk by Sophie Meszaros from Open and Agile Smart Cities at Urban Data Talks #6 event on progress of european work on data spaces for sustainable smart cities and communities.
Discover REMOURBAN sustainable urban regeneration model leveraging the convergence of energy, mobility and ICT to transform European cities into Smart Cities
In less than 40 years, 70% of the world’s population will reside in our cities. This rapid
migration will push both current and future urban centres to their seams and expand industrial
and residential infrastructures beyond their breaking points.
This eye-opening fact raises important questions that must be considered by cities around the
world. Can this growth be done in a sustainable way? Will cities be able to reduce their
environmental impact and carbon emissions? Will we be able to meet the sustainability
challenges brought on by regulation and the impact of this massive growth? And, will we
expand in ways which ensure communities are enjoyable places to live and promote social
equality?
We can answer affirmatively to these concerns, and re-design our cities with these thoughts
in mind. With the movement towards smart cities, the urban centres we live in can become
more efficient, livable, and sustainable in both the short and long term, thanks to involvement from city, citizens, and businesses.
A presentation delivered in Brussels on 13th february 2017 International Evidence Review 'Experimenting with Urban Living Labs (ULLs) beyond Smart City-Regions'
Similar to Cities as Arenas of Low-Carbon Transition? Analysing the Cases of Graz and Freiburg (20)
Walter Deffaa Mumbai World Cities Presentation 25-05-15URBACT
A presentation made by Mr. Walter Deffam General Director, DG REGIO, EU Commission for the Mumbai World Cities. A forum for EU-Third Countries Cooperation on Urban and Regional Development
Presentation for EU-level consultation meeting with institutional stakeholders about URBACT III Programme; delivered by Emmanuel Moulin, Head of URBACT II Secretariat.
Read more about URBACT III preparation process here: http://urbact.eu/en/about-urbact/urbact-2014-2020/
Transfer Pilots Plenary - Transnational Exchanges (30.01)URBACT
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Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/view-one/urbact-events/?entryId=4918
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Presentation delivered for URBACT Pilots Kick-Off Meeting (29-31 january 2014, Paris, France): 1.The 3 Delivery Networks : Network theme and partnership; Main results from the first URBACT network; Progress since the end of the first network (Feb 2013); Summary of the work plan for delivery pilot. 2. Measuring Impact. 3. Communications and Capitalisation.
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/view-one/urbact-events/?entryId=4918
Presentation delivered for URBACT Pilots Kick-Off Meeting (29-31 January 2014, Paris, France): Programme Structure and Objectives; Why the Pilot Networks; Who's Who.
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/view-one/urbact-events/?entryId=4918
Structural Youth Unemployment and Local Development Strategies URBACT
Presentation delivered by Matteo Marchi (Councillor for Employment, youth Policies and Land Development Municipality of Cesena) for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Presentation delivered by Willem van Winden (UrbanIQ)
for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Presentation delivered by Vita Jermoloviča (Councillor
Vice Chairman of the City Development Committee / Riga City Council) for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Presentation for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Peer Review Session: Municipality of SuceavaURBACT
Presentation delivered by Ovidiu Doroftei (Vice-Mayor, Municipality of Suceava) for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Sustainable Urban Markets: Municipality of Suceava, RomaniaURBACT
Presentation delivered by Ovidiu Doroftei (Vice-Mayor of Suceava) for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Presentation delivered by Elena Marchigiani, Deputy Mayor for Town Planning, Mobility and Traffic, Housing, Trieste, for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Transitions to Sustainability and the Role of PolicyURBACT
Presentation delivered by Prof. Dr. Derk Loorbach for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Presentation for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Presentation delivered by Susana Bayo for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Birmingham - URBACT Project Creative SpIN Lead PartnerURBACT
Presentation delivered by Tahir Ali for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
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The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Cities as Arenas of Low-Carbon Transition? Analysing the Cases of Graz and Freiburg
1. Cities as arenas of low-carbon
transition?
Analysing the cases of Graz and
Freiburg
Harald Rohracher
Professor, Dept. of Thematic Studies –
Technology and Social Change
Linköping University, Sweden
2. Cities &Climate Change
Sustainability transitions: radical
reconfigurations of systems of production and
consumption
Energy,
mobility, food systems etc.
Cities increasingly regarded critical to
transitions
as ‘megatrend’
Source of 70-80% of anthropogenic GHGemissions
Foremost among victims of climate change
Key sites of ‘innovative response’
Urbanisation
3. A sociotechnicalsystemsperspective
Individual transport / the car: Just a technology?
Which social, cultural and technical elements
stabilise our car-based system of mobility?
Is
it just habits? Lack of technological alternatives?
How are cars entrenched in our society? Why is
such a system so difficult to change?
4. Culture andsymbolic
meanings (freedom,
individuality, indepencence..)
Regulationsandpolicies
(rules, standards;
finance, insurance…)
Marketsanduser
practices (preferences,
expectations, mobility
patterns …)
Socialinstitutions,
practices, meaning
Socio-technicalconfiguration
in personal transportation
Builtenvironment
(settlementstructures)
Industrystructure
(carmanufacturers,
suppliers)
Economicinterests
Research
Maintenance and
distributionnetworks
(retail, repair etc.)
Sunkcosts / investments
Vehicle / Artefact
Road infrastructure
andtrafficsystem
New technologies – ICT, Smart cars, materials…
Fuel infrastructure
New fuels;
newpropulsion
technologies
(ModifiedfromGeels 2004)
5. Socio-technical change and
stability
Multi-level perspective: niches, regimes and landscapes
Macro-level
(landscape)
Meso-level
(regimes,
institutions)
Micro-level
(Niches,
projects)
Source: Geels and Kemp, 2001
Socio-culturalbackground etc.
- veryslowchanges
Regimes providestability
andresistancetochange
Niches as test-beds /
protected spaces for learning
6. Transitions as multi-level
process
Focus on transformative change – systemic
innovations
Interaction between three levels is
important
Destabilisation
of regime; landscape pressures
Formation of niches – social learning, networkformation, shaping of expectations
Helpful for thinking about
Stability
/ obduracy of existing configurations
Variety of social and technical elements that
have to come together to cause a regime shift
Need for integrated and long-term policy
7. How can cities shape regime
change?
Infrastructures / regimes often reach far
beyond city limits + limited formal power of
cities
‘Soft power’ to shape change processes:
Self-governing:
own operation of e.g. buildings,
public procurement
Limited forms of regulation – mandates and
planning
Provision of services
Enabling: facilitating, coordination & encouraging
action, civil society involvement
Horizontal coordination: city networks
8. City of Graz, facts and figures
260.000 inhabitants
128 km2
Geographically situated in
basin
Capital city of Styria
45.000 students
9. ‘Eco-City’Graz: historic development
External pressures on existing energy
regime
Bad
air quality due to geographical situation
Network of energy activists established
within city administration and politics (policy
entrepreneurs)
Partially
roots in anti-nuclear movement
Early 1990s: From ‘smog city’ to ‘eco city’
Integrated
2000’
Environmental Programme‘Eco-City
10. Innovative Energy & Climate
Policies
Ambitious aims: Cutting CO2-emissions by 50%
until 2010 (based on 1987 figures)
Innovative type of programmes
Comprehensive and integrative perspective
(policy integration)
Participatory planning (stakeholders, wider public)
Partial outsourcing to research partners
New types of instruments (economic framing; win-win)
Action oriented; concrete targets; monitoring
Integration with social and economic aims
Local companies & jobs, social housing etc.
11. International support
Participation in international city networks
International attention and acclaim for its
activities, e.g.
Greenpeace International Climate Protection Award in
1993
International Sustainable City Award of the European
Union
in 1996
Dubai International Award & Climate Star in 2002
Sustainable Energy Europe Award in 2008
Civitas City of the Year 2008
Creation of urban identity
12. Thermoprofit
Energy performance contracting for private and
public buildings
Includes energy supply, building envelope, building
services
New financial arrangements + aggregation of
knowledge on energy-efficient refurbishing, models
for tenant participation, legal issues, dealing with
energy aspects in tendering etc.
Networks of local partner companies (Thermoprofit
partners)
Guaranteed quality standards
14. ‘Soft power’ of institutional change
Institutional change
Strengthened
department for energy and
environment
Establishment of more effective intra-municipal
working groups across departments and issues
Establishment of a municipal energy agency which
is owned by municipality and municipal utilities, but
collaborates internationally and acts (rather)
independently
Importance of intermediaries at urban level
Facilitation
and coordination of systemic change
Knowledge brokers; competence centres
17. Priorities for an energy transition
Vision: substitution of nuclear electricity, lead in
efficiency and renewables, solar industry cluster
Germany’s
‘Solar capital’, various international prizes
Policies driven by experts & citizens rather than
administration (main admin-focus: PR, green
image)
Reduce demand by increasing energy efficiency
Pioneering
enforcement of high energetic building
standards (by plans, private contracts etc.)
District heating, CHP
Transport: Change in modal split achieved but anticar policy highly contested
18. Vauban district – the plan
18
Ph. Späth, Environmental Policies in Freiburg
19. ‘Lessons’ from eco-cities
Despite limited power within multi-level
governance structures cities can be
successful in achieving a (moderate)
restructuring of the energy regime
Not
so much technology development, but
implementation skills, formation of actor alliances,
new business clusters (e.g. energy-efficient building
renovation; solar installations)
Urban governance brings together actors across
energy system level in new roles –
incumbents/utilities, local businesses offering new
products/services, concerned citizens…
20. Cities as facilitators of systemic
change
Not only niche-regime dynamics, but other
socio-political dynamics important
Particular
local agendas, jobs, tourism, visibility
Interactions between different governance levels
Competition between cities / networks of cities
important
Despite severe constraints, cities and regions
can be important social context for deviations
from dominant energy system
Legitimacy
for visions of more sustainable regimes
Demonstrating the viability of alternative regime
21. Cities as facilitators of systemic
change
Significant governance capacity at local level…
Not
only formal powers, but proximity effects,
inclusion of civil society, capacity for coordination,
regional identities
Strategic action at city/regional level can have
(discursive) repercussions on other scales =>
diffusion of alternative configurations
Regions / cities as sites for
Formation
of new visions and discourse coalitions
Formation of heterogeneous networks across
different interests and actor types as effect of
proximity / trust
22. Challenges for urban transitions
How to create learning effects across different
initiatives and experiments?
Upscaling?
Systemic change?
How to create long-lasting institutional change?
New
instruments, standardisation, agencies,
new structures for policy integration
How to broaden the actor basis?
Involvement
of civil society? Companies?
How to link energy with other socio-political
issues?
Vision building? Urban identity? Measuring
23. Thank you for your
attention!
harald.rohracher@liu.se