The RUGGEDISED project will create urban spaces powered by secure, affordable and clean energy, smart electro-mobility, smart tools and services. The overall aims are:

1. Improving the quality of life of the citizens, by offering the citizens a clean, safe, attractive, inclusive and affordable living environment.
2. Reducing the environmental impacts of activities, by achieving a significant reduction of CO2 emissions, a major increase in the investment and usage of RES and an increase in the deployment of electric vehicles.
3. Creating a stimulating environment for sustainable economic development, by generating more sustainable jobs, stimulating community involvement in smart solutions and to boost start-up and existing companies to exploit the opportunities of the green digital economy and Internet of Things.

To achieve the aims, a key innovation challenge in all three lighthouse cities of RUGGEDISED is to arrange successful combinations of integrated smart solutions for energy and e-mobility (enabled by ICT platforms and open data protocols) and business models with the right incentives for stakeholders to invest and participate in a smart society. Specific challenges relevant for the lighthouse cities are:

• to manage peak load variation in thermal and electrical energy supply and demand;
• to develop appropriate cooperation structures and business models for exchange of energy;
• to develop Smart City (open) data platforms and energy management systems

RUGGEDISED has derived 10 specific objectives and planned 32 smart solutions to meet the challenges. The development of solutions in the lighthouse cities is not the primary goal of the project, but a necessary means to find the right incentives and to create validated business cases to enable large scale deployment and replication of solutions.

Three follower cities Brno, Parma and Gdansk have selected 27 smart follower solutions to follow the lighthouse cities and to prepare for implementation in the future.

Partners

• GEMEENTE ROTTERDAM
• UMEA KOMMUN
• GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL
• RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB
• ISTITUTO DI STUDI PER L'INTEGRAZIONE DEI SISTEMI (I.S.I.S) - SOCIETA'COOPERATIVA
• AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH
• NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
• ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH)
• ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM
• UMEA UNIVERSITET
• UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
• VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE
• STATUTARNI MESTO BRNO
• COMUNE DI PARMA
• GMINA MIASTA GDANSKA
• Ballast Nedam Bouw & Ontwikkeling Holding B.V.
• ROTTERDAMSE ELEKTRISCHE TRAM NV
• ENECO ZAKELIJK BV
• ENECO CONSUMENTEN BV
• KONINKLIJKE KPN NV
• AKADEMISKA HUS AKTIEBOLAG
• REGION VASTERBOTTEN
• UMEA ENERGI AKTIEBOLAG
• UMEA ENERGI ELHANDEL AB
• UMEA ENERGI ELNAT AB
• UMEA PARKERINGS AKTIEBOLAG
• SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT
• SP POWER SYSTEMS LIMITED
• TENNENT CALEDONIAN BREWERIES UK LIMITED
• SIEMENS PLC
• PICTEC
• UNIRESEARCH BV
• INFOMOBILITY SPA
• FUTURE INSIGHT GROUP BV
• THE GLASGOW HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED IPS
• GDANSKA INFRASTRUCTURA WODOCIAGOWO-KANALIZACYJNA SP ZOO
• RISE ACREO AB
• ENECO WARMTENETTEN BV

Start date: 1 November 2016 - End date: 31 October 2022

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 731198.