GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Effective support for the Cities Mission should follow a systematic approach appropriate to the highly complex task of delivering climate neutral and smart cities.

Projects are expected to address all of the following:

• Develop and test a digital twin of a (project defined) potential Positive clean Energy District (PED) in a European city.
• Prepare an economic impact study for this digital PED twin, a risk analysis and a data security strategy.
• Use the digital twin to improve evidence-based decision-making and to create district development pathways with a clear timeline for associated transformation actions.
• Involve/train necessary public and private actors at district/city level in building and using digital twins for co-creation, communication, public consultation/dialogues and good practice sharing.
• Make use of gamification and/or co-creation approaches to change citizens’ awareness of and behaviour towards energy efficient/energy conservation and to make results of the digital twin analysis easily understandable to non-technical audiences.
• Recommend a set of actions that foster a cost effective and secure digitalization of the local energy system.
• Publish practical guidelines, reusable models, algorithms, data models, components and training material that will help other cities to successfully replicate digital twins in their district/cities.