New Smart City Project MatchUP at the forefront of the European sustainable urban transformation process
MAtchUP – Maximizing the Upscaling and replication potential of high level urban transformation strategies – is a 60 months long project funded under the call H2020-SCC-2017 of European Union’s Horizon 2020 Smart Cities and Communities programme with a total budget of about 19.472 M€.
MAtchUP addresses the issues that constrains a better and wider development of the urban transformation of the cities through the use of innovative technologies in the energy, mobility and ICT areas and through the direct engagement of citizens in the co-design of their future smart cities.
MAtchUP will deploy large scale demonstration projects in three Lighthouse cities namely, Valencia (Spain), Dresden (Germany) and Antalya (Turkey), and support the development of replication and upscaling plans in four Follower cities namely, Ostend (Belgium), Herzliya (Israel), Skopje (Macedonia) and Kerava (Finland). The project is executed by the partners from Europe: Ayuntamiento De Valencia (Spain), Fundacion De La Comunitat Valenciana Para La Promocion Estrategica El Desarrollo Y La Innovacion Urbana (Spain), Witrac Comunicaciones Inteligentes Sl (Spain), Universitat Politecnica De Valencia (Spain), Etra Investigacion Y Desarrollo Sa (Spain), Asociacion Instituto Tecnologico De La Energia (Spain), Senior Europa Sociedad Limitada (Spain), Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Germany), Drewag Stadtwerke Dresden Gmbh (Germany), Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe Ag (Germany), Wohnbau Nordwest Gmbh (Germany), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V. (Germany), Technische Universitaet Dresden (Germany), Antalya Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey), Sampas Bilisim Ve Iletisim Sistemleri Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. (Turkey), De Surdurulebilir Enerji Ve Insaat Sanayi Ticaret Limited Sirketi (Turkey), Antepe Insaat Ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi (Turkey), Trafik Arastirma Yonetim Simulasyon Insaat Musavirlik Proje Ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi (Turkey), Akdeniz University (Turkey), Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus Vtt Oy (Finland), Fundacion Cartif (Spain), Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Italy), Fondazione Icons (Italy), Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain), Herzliya Municipality (Israel), Stad Oostende (Belgium), City Of Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia), Keravan Kaupunki (Finland).
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 774477.