Discover the STARDUST best practices book and many other contents, such as the interview with project' coordinator Florencio Manteca, in this final newsletter.
Florencio Manteca, our project coordinator, outlines the lessons learned in these six years and reflects on the legacy of STARDUST. He also places this in the light of what has been happening in Europe in recent years...
The project’s best practice book draws on six years of endeavours in six smart cities and sets out some of the best practices, pitfalls and lessons learned.
How to monetise environmental benefits? What’s the value of reducing traffic and emissions? Economic savings and traditional methods are not enough: to calculate the profitability of smart and sustainable cities, we...
The final conference of the STARDUST project has begun in Pamplona, Spain. It concludes six years of work in areas covering energy, mobility, ICT and citizen engagement.
As many cities now seek to go climate neutral in the coming years, what role do people – as residents, consumers, children and businesses – play in this drive to preserve the environment?
Engaging rather than imposing top-down solutions. Community empowerment and trust-building make European cities smarter: Insights and innovations from a grassroots approach to urban planning.
Join us on this webinar to discover how the Stardust Follower Cities are carrying out the energy efficiency interventions in public buildings in these two cities!
The 6-year project will share its insights on mobility, ICT, smart districts and energy at its final conference in Pamplona at the end of February. The Consortium partners will discuss the achievements in the Lighthou...
Smart Cities: what’s in it for the citizens? Technology should empower people, but sometimes it becomes an end in itself rather than a means to an end. Cities must address problems like the digital divide, use techn...
Join us for this webinar hosted by Eurac Research! You can discover how to perform a technical and economic assessment of urban waste-heat sources for use in district heating with a focus on the case study of Madonna ...
TExTOUR is an EU-funded project that co-designs pioneering and sustainable cultural tourism strategies to improve deprived areas in Europe and beyond. Through the experience of its eight pilot sites, the project devel...
From the retrofitting of social housing blocks to the set-up of a “biodistrict”, co-designed by school pupils. When urban regeneration faces climate change from a new perspective: “Inclusive and beautiful is bet...
Russians snubbing European destinations, and Ukrainians coping with zero leisure trips from abroad. Tourism is a collateral victim of the ongoing war. But thanks to a European project and an ancestor of the Commission...
Accounting for over 70% of global CO2 emissions, cities are key in reducing our carbon footprint. But technology is not enough, experts warn, to address the new challenges. To be really “smart”, a city must take i...
They might be shooting for the moon, but many European cities are making huge and concrete steps towards a greener future to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. From the Greek plan for a green hydrogen valley to the Ro...
TExTOUR, a European research project focused on preserving and promoting cultural heritage through sustainable tourism experiences, is set to launch an engaging social media campaign in honour of Sustainable Gastronom...
“Green-health-safety Nexus for new Urban Spaces”: the project will be active until the end of 2026 and provides training-through-research of 10 doctoral candidates
The Sobreiro Social Neighbourhood, which includes the intervention area of the Lighthouse 4 Maia of the Eyes hearts Hands project, was recently distinguished with an Honourable Mention in the Nuno Teotónio Pereir...
The goal of this webinar, hosted by AIGUASOL, is to provide insightful content about the versatile applications that circularity can offer to one of today’s most environmentally impactful industries: construction.
During the final co-creation workshop, the participants put their heads together to validate the implementation of the ideas in the Houseful demo building “El Bloc dels Mestres”
Our partner Housing Europe has developed a set of 70 recommendations for mainstreaming and upscaling HOUSEFUL-type circular renovation solutions in the European building sector
The series of Meet TExTOUR interviews has a new episode. Marinos Ioannides from Cyprus University of Technology explains the unique heritage of the village of Fikardou and the importance of developing a cultural touri...
Solar panels disguised as ancient Roman tiles or terracotta bricks to match the city skyline. The innovative solutions adopted by the archaeological park of Pompeii and the Portuguese city of Evora pave the way fo...
Data is the essence of digital innovation. Its public availability is beneficial for residents, public and private sectors and academia. But it’s crucial also for government and administration, which have a key role...
ITeC and Turntoo, two Houseful partners, will demonstrate how digital technology can serve as an enabler to improve the circularity of materials, the building, and the entire process. The event is free of charge.
The HOUSEFUL Webinars Series presents the circular solutions that are currently under development and will be demonstrated at building scale in each of four demo buildings. The 1st webinar will focus on material solut...
Where do we come from? This is one of the humankind oldest questions. Digging in the past of our species is not easy. Further back we go in time, deepest is the darkness that envelops our history. The Upper Palaeolith...
The heatwaves we are going through this summer are just one of the extreme weather conditions caused by the climate challenges. The heavy urbanization worldwide causes pollution, floods, biodiversity loss and many oth...
Through the “meet TExTOUR” interview series we are getting to know all the people that work hard to make this project a success. A virtual tour across countries and stories, understanding how a European project wo...
Beauty in architecture is often expensive, while sustainability should be affordable and widespread. Does this mean that aesthetics and sustainability are in conflict? Or can one integrate the other? Solutions exist. ...
Defying the flight service disruptions, lost luggages, heatwave and last-minute setbacks TExTOUR’s partners met in Foz Côa, in Portugal, on the 14th-15th of July for the pilot forum workshop. An intense two-day mee...
Learn about how the EU-funded project CityLoops contributes to the ecological transition by harnessing two of the most important waste streams in Europe: Construction and Demolition Waste, and Bio-waste.
A book collecting stories, interviews and experiences from six different rural territories in Europe showing how natural and cultural heritages can help rural communities’ development.
TExTOUR steering committee met in Turin, Italy, on April 27th-28th, for a hybrid meeting to take stock of the work done in the projects’ first 15 months and to trace the route for TExTOUR’s next steps.
The renaissance of the Kepez Santral district in Antalya as a green, hi-tech neighbourhood with energy-efficient homes is symbolic of the Turkish city’s decision to embrace smart solutions for a sustainable future, ...
Innovating in urban energy and transport is complex and risky, but the successes and failures of others can help cities navigate their own way to becoming smart and sustainable.
Some cities in Europe are embracing nature-based solutions to make life for residents more pleasant and sustainable – and these innovative approaches serve as a model for urban environments elsewhere
Sustainability is one of the main priority in Alkmaar city: let's follow Mascha, business vlogger, in her discovery of Dillenburgstraat houses energy sustainable solution.
The EU project URBAN GreenUP has published a kit with good practices and recommendations to help city administrations, urbanists, city planners and architects implement Nature-based solutions (NBS) in their cities
Enjoy the second interview of the meet TExTOUR series and discover more about this project from the voices of the people that are directly involved in its realisation.
On the 20th of December 2021, the POCITYF project organised an internal knowledge transfer workshop. During the event representatives of Alkmaar and Évora, the lighthouse cities, shared insights on the lessons they l...
On the 24th of November an online expert’s workshop on cultural tourism took place. Organised by the research group of Planning and Regeneration from the University of Bologna, Italy, to gather experts worldwide to ...
Almost one year has passed since we kicked off TExTOUR in January 2021, and finally some of us had the chance to meet in person for the first general assembly which took place in Katowice (Poland).
The projects POCITYF, SPARCS, RESPONSE present the online workshop to be held on the 13th of October, 11:30-13:00, as a partner event of the European Week of Region and Cities
A set of short explainer videos has been released showing how Nature-Based Solutions can help cities tackle the effects of climate change – examples from the EU-funded URBAN GreenUP project.
There is a new way to explore Europe and its beauties while promoting social and economic developments of local communities. Find out how in the TExTOUR’s new video.
A green roof has been installed on the El Campillo municipal market in Valladolid (Spain). The intervention is one of the nature-based solutions implemented by the EU project URBAN GreenUP
On January 2021, STARDUST partners from the Lighthouse city of Tampere participated and organised a handful of sessions during its virtual Tampere Smart City Week
A green façade has been installed on an El Corte Inglés department store in Valladolid (Spain). The intervention is part of the EU project URBAN GreenUP and makes Valladolid the first Spanish city with a vertical ga...
A new EU-funded project, TExTOUR, is set to design innovative and sustainable cultural tourism strategies to reinforce the socio-economic territorial development of less known areas in Europe and beyond.
The EIP-SCC has launched a guidance package to help towns and cities move towards a sustainable future. The toolbox is the fruit of many European projects, including REMOURBAN.
REPLICATE Project’s Lighthouse City of Donostia/San Sebastian organized last 26th and 27th of March the European Smart Projects Summit, where representatives and experts across 90 cities from 14 SCC01 (Smart Cities ...
The choice of the most suitable indicator framework is crucial, but difficult, as it requires expert knowledge. To help cities in their choice, this paper compares seven recently published indicator standards for Smar...
The development of the urban mobility of Dresden is one of the cities' core assets. The plan does not only support political decision-makers but also the economy, traffic-related institutions, NGOs, and institutional ...
On November 29, 2018, the representatives of STARDUST’s Lighthouse City of Trento organised their 1st Stakeholder Workshop on how to tailor technical solutions electric mobility, according to the local needs
While the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) takes place from the 2nd to the 14th of December 2018 in Katowice, Poland, we have been investigating how district heating can contribute to the reduction of...
From the 16th to the 22nd of September, the local authorities from the city of Trento celebrated alongside other cities the European Mobility Week under the theme of multimodality.
An immersive and interactive workshop at the Nordic Edge conference late September shone the spotlight on how European project teams can get their message across to citizens.
People’s central role for developing sustainable cities was discussed at the BY&FORCITIZENS conference in Valladolid from the 20th to the 21st of September 2018
The STARDUST partners from Trento participated at the local Museum of Science for the 2018 European Researchers’ Night by demonstrating the science behind smart cities
Across Europe citizens are being put centre stage in efforts to move towards a more sustainable and liveable built environment. How are EU-funded projects embracing this citizen engagement as they innovate?
STARDUST’s City of Tampere was acknowledged during the Smart City Expo China 2018 for its goal to build a smart and sustainable future for its citizens
REMOURBAN project partner, Matthieu Grosjean from Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ), delivered the latest project insights to the 100 delegates attending the first plenary session at the EIP SCC Marketplace General Assem...
Three research institutions from the STARDUST consortium shared their insights with a network of Spanish universities as to how Smart Cities can act as exemplary figures for replication to their regions
At the end of May the consortium came together in Lund, Sweden, to catch up on the latest developments, align on the status of the project and pinpoint future actions.
Throughout Europe buildings are still responsible for 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions. More renovation of the existing stock is needed. This is where citizens come into play
Representatives of the twelve smart city ‘lighthouse’ projects, recipients of a combined investment of €263.84 million euro from the European Commission, met to sign a manifesto of cooperation.
The state of the art findings on circular cities and their implementation at an urban level were highlighted in the conference on Circular Cities: Promoting Innovation in Urban Systems.
Buildings in EU27 Member States represent up to 24 billion m2 of floor space, responsible for 40% of Europe’s energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions – both key contributors to climate change. In response, a n...
On 26 January 2018 representatives of 40 cities sat around the table at the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) with industry representatives and experts to ensure that the €263.84 million invested by th...
URBAN GreenUP consortium partners gathered together from the 16th to the 18th of January 2018 in Izmir for its 2nd Periodic Meeting, an occasion to share knowledge and progress on the implementation of urban renaturin...
On February 16, 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force. The first global agreement of history to reduce carbon dioxide emissions was based on the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring. Thirteen ye...
Izmir organized its first International Green Infrastructure Workshop to highlight the governments’ role in moulding policies that support nature-based solutions and to announce its Green Infrastructure Strategy
CITyFiED is honoured to be recognised as a leading international example of “innovative and influential” work in urban transformation by a panel of global city leaders. The awards are set to take place at the Smar...
The Annual Symposium of Architectural Research 2017 (Atut 2017) was held on November 29th – December 2nd, 2017 in Oulu, Finland. This symposium is organised on an annual basis by the Finnish schools of architecture ...
Empower cities. Empower people. That was the battle cry at this year’s Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) that took place between 13-15 November in Barcelona’s Gran Via.
CITyFiED Methodology is an integrated approach divided into seven phases, ranging from initial citywide diagnosis to final evaluation of the renovation. It includes an indicators tool and guidelines to support decisio...