Application Form: GrowSmarter City Interest Group – SOS hub

I, (name)..……………………………...... ……, representing the city/municipality (name of city/municipality)...... , herewith request to join the SOS hub for City Interest Group of GrowSmarter ( I agree to join this exclusive group with the aim of exchanging on the implementation and replication of Smart City solutions in the GrowSmarter Lighthouse and Follower Cities.

Signature: ......

  1. City Interest Group members benefit from:
  • Exclusive opportunities to participate in study visits to Lighthouse Cities’ demonstration sites.
  • Direct access to technical staff and businesses involved in implementation of the 12 GrowSmarter solutions.
  • Invitation to thematic capacity building webinar series
  • Regular updates on implementation and replication activities and results
  • Access to a helpdesk
  • Opportunities to showcase your action at selected GrowSmarter/Smart City events
  • Special for three CIG members: Receive one on-site capacity building workshop to support the preparation of replication plans
  1. Determine your main interest:

(please mark with an X one or several of the 12 integrated and demonstrated solutions)

More details on smart solutions: / City Interest Group
Area / Smart Solutions of Lighthouse Cities
Low energydistricts / 1. Efficient and smart climate shell refurbishment
2. Smart building logistics and alternative fuelled vehicles
3. Smart, energy saving tenants through information
4. Smart local electricity production and integration with buildings and grid
Integrated infrastructure / 5. Smart lightning, lampposts as hubs for communication
6. Waste heat and local heat integration by new business models
7. Smart waste collecting, turning waste to electricity, heat and biogas for vehicles.
8. Big data protocol for saving energy and improving the quality of life
Urban mobility / 9. Sustainabledelivery
10. Smart trafficmanagement
11. Alternative fuel driven vehicles for decarbonizing and better air quality
12. Smart mobilitysolutions
  1. Specify your main interest in Smart City Governance:

(please mark with an X one or several of the 5 steps of the management cycle)

Baseline assessment / Target and priority setting / Action plan and political commitment / Implementation / Monitoring and evaluation
  1. Specify your main thematic interest in low energy districts:

(please mark with an X one or several of the options)

Internal process / External process / Technical implementation
strategy/ planning / framework conditions / technology
governance/ organization / public policy / data/ indicators
project management / stakeholder process / monitoring/ reporting
procurement/ financing / business models / standards
internal communication / external communication
  1. Specify your main thematic interest in integrated infrastructure:

(please mark with an X one or several of the options)

Internal process / External process / Technical implementation
strategy/ planning / framework conditions / technology
governance/ organization / public policy / data/ indicators
project management / stakeholder process / monitoring/ reporting
procurement/ financing / business models / standards
internal communication / external communication
  1. Specify your main thematic interest in sustainable mobility:

(please mark with an X one or several of the options)

Internal process / External process / Technical implementation
strategy/ planning / framework conditions / technology
governance/ organization / public policy / data/ indicators
project management / stakeholder process / monitoring/ reporting
procurement/ financing / business models / standards
internal communication / external communication
  1. By applying, I agree to:
  • Attend at least one GrowSmarter capacity exchange per year until 2019 (event or webinar) at my own costs (if GrowSmarter cannot offer travel support)
  • Sign up to GrowSmarter internal and public newsletter
  • Share related knowledge and good practice to the Lighthouse and Follower Cities
  • Support the dissemination of GrowSmarter information and results
  1. Additional voluntary activity:

Our city/municipality is interested in developing a Replication Assessment Report: (Yes/no)......

The Replication Assessment Report consists of two parts. Part one focuses on the Smart City Replication Profile and maps the overall framework conditions and potentials for replication within the city territory/potential districts for replication.

Part two zooms in on the selected GrowSmarter solutions and describes their replication potential and possible need of adaptation within the city/districts.

The first three CIG members that produce a Replication Assessment Report will have the opportunity to receive one on-site capacity building workshop to support the development of a full Replication Plan, organised by ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainabilitywith the involvement of Lighthouse and/or Follower Cities as appropriate.

  1. Appoint city contact (liaison):

(contact details of liaison coordinating the knowledge transfer)

Name:......

Position:......

City:......

E-mail:......

phone nr.:......