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RESPONSE Activities
RESPONSE Lighthouse and Fellow Cities selected for NetZeroCities Programme
PED Dijon
The NetZeroCities Programme has announced the 53 Pilot Cities that have been selected for its launch year. The RESPONSE Lighthouse Cities of Dijon (FR) and Turku (FI), as well as one of the Fellow Cities, Zaragoza (ES), are among those selected as on the path to full decarbonisation.
PED Turku
Each selected Pilot City has identified pathways towards climate neutrality, taking action on bespoke combinations of six main domains: energy; waste management; land use; electricity for buildings; industrial processes; and mobility and transport. On this journey, each Pilot City will align their activities with existing and new partnerships, initiatives and goals to maximise outcomes and impact.
Zaragoza - RESPONSE Fellow City
Each of the 53 cities have an ambitions to pave the way for a climate-proof future in Europe and to scale up solutions for replication in other cities. They represent 21 different EU and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries, and were chosen out of a total of 103 applications involving 159 cities.
Read the complete article here.
Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação
RESPONSE Consortium Meeting in Turku, Finland - June 6th to 8th, 2023
The RESPONSE Consortium Meeting gathered the project partners, including the Lighthouse Cities and Fellow Cities, in the city of Turku from June 6th to 8th, 2023. It was an excellent forum to collaborate and exchange views on project implementation, citizen engagement and replication of the project outputs. The first day was dedicated to ensuring that the project was being implemented as planned. The meeting thus kicked off with a presentation on the project progress, after which partners discussed the monitoring of implemented solutions, future project communication and continued citizen engagement measures. In the afternoon, a site visit to the Kakolanmäki wastewater treatment plant was organized. At the plant, partners learned more about the heat pump and the water treatment processes at Kakolanmäki.
Kakolanmäki wastewater treatment plant
On the second day, the focus shifted to replication in Fellow and Lighthouse Cities, and to the technical energy and ICT solutions being implemented in RESPONSE. The partners presented the solutions that have been implemented in the Positive Energy District (PED) area in Turku, followed by a guided tour in the PED area.
PED in Turku
On the last day of the meeting, partners discussed future collaboration methods and considered different climate adaptation measures that could be implemented in Turku. During the adaptation workshop, local stakeholders were invited to exchange views with partners from Fellow Cities. to learn more about different adaptation strategies and challenges posed by a changing climate.
RESPONSE consortium partners
Text and Photos: Helmi Andersson (City of Turku)
RESPONSE 3rd Webinar - Positive Energy Building Systems
On December 7th, 2022, RESPONSE hosted the third webinar, RESPONSE – Positive Energy Building Systems. The webinar aimed to raise public awareness of the RESPONSE project, establish new cooperations among organisations, and to facilitate learning and knowledge exchange processes, particularly between Lighthouse Cities and Fellow Cities. The webinar was well-attended by a range of organisations, and can be watched here. Further, here you can find the presentations used during the webinar.
Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação
Horizon Magazine – “Finnish and French cities chart Europe’s path to clean energy” article about RESPONSE
In an interview about Europe’s path to clean energy, Monjur Murshed and David Goujon from EIFER – European Institute for Energy Research, talked about RESPONSE to the Horizon Magazine. The 2 coordinators of the project shared how Turku and Dijon, the Lighthouse Cities of RESPONSE, are among a group of cities seeking to become climate-neutral by 2030, a full two decades before the European goal.
Read here the full article.
Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação
RESPONSE Project Featured in France 3 News Report
The RESPONSE Project was featured in a news report by the France 3 Channel. The Positive Energy District of Fontaine D’Ouche in Dijon was displayed as an example for European cities in terms of energy savings with unprecedented thermal renovation through the installation of solar panels and improvement of the district heating networks.
Watch here the news report.
Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação
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