Climate Fund’s initiative on Smart Cities
Mission Statement
The goals for all provisions of the Smart Initiative are guiding to bring sustainable city development to effect on all levels:
#1: To support the Austrian cities and communities on their way to a "zero emission city“
#2: To establish and push on urban energy transformation in Austrian cities and communities as holistic process
#3: To provide know – how on Smart Cities for learning processes of city actors and enhance capacities in city and municipal governments
The funding programme Smart Cities Demo – Living Urban Innovation
‘Smart Cities Demo’ positions itself as systemic integrative funding programme with an experimental aspect under consideration of municipal and regional decision – makers. (Cities as testbed).
Beginning in 2018 a five year perspective for integrative system - comprehensive topics was developed, considering the embedment in regional context in the following six action fields:
I. Energy supply & energy use
II. Building stock & new construction
III. The exchange of goods and services
IV. City ecology & climate – change adaptions
V. Settlement structure & mobility
1. To lead research findings into practice
2. To create spaces for experimentation in real cities
3. To generate additional communal benefits
status december 2018