Portfolio

Milan (Italy)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Deep Demonstration on Healthy Clean Cities and the EIT Climate–KIC Pandemic Response Projects.

Focus areas: Climate Fund; Deep District Retrofitting; Strategic Climate Action Narrative

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with the Commune di Milano and the Politecnico de Milano on:

Developing a Climate Fund to enable faster decarbonisation
An integrated approach to holistic retrofitting of entire neighbourhoods, with a focus on decarbonisation, addressing fuel poverty, and maximising co-benefits such as health, social cohesion and employment
A strategic narrative, based on fact-based modelling to support the recently adopted Air Quality and Climate Action Plan
Supporting the integration of civic participation across the city’s climate actions

Madrid (Spain)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Deep Demonstration on Healthy Clean Cities.

Focus areas: Portfolio Development; Nature-Based Solutions; Regulatory Innovation; Post-Covid Mobility

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with the Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid on:

A transition finance approach to enabling accelerated decarbonisation investment
A city-wide, multi-stakeholder Nature-Based Solutions innovation strategy focussed on civic participation, finance innovation and use of new data sources
A mission driven regulatory sandbox to address regulatory barriers and voids in achieving a low carbon built environment
Creating a network of local civic initiatives and facilitate their participation in the co-design of the decarbonisation portfolio
Cross-silo, agile collaborative approaches to mobility innovation

Skopje (North Macedonia), Niš (Serbia), Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Križevci (Croatia), and Maribor (Slovenia)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Future Cities South-East and the EIT Climate-KIC Pandemic Response Projects.

Focus areas: Portfolio Development; Finance Innovation; Governance Innovation

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with local teams in these five cities to:

Create city climate finance options enabling accelerated decarbonisation and other urban transition investment through a regional blended finance mechanism
Work closely with city teams to help develop ways of involving citizens in local decision making processes
Develop portfolios of transformational propositions to make these cities into some of the best possible places in Europe to live, work and visit by 2025, with a focus on livelihoods and liveability issues, such as air pollution, alongside climate action

Leuven (Belgium)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Deep Demonstration on Healthy Clean Cities.

Focus areas: Portfolio Development; Governance Innovation; Community-led Climate Action; Deep District Retrofitting; Nature-Based Solutions

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with Leuven2030 – a partner organisation dedicated to a climate-neutral Leuven – to develop:

A governance arrangement capable of delivering the systems change required for carbon neutrality
An integrated district energy transition with multiple climate-adaptive and mitigative measures
Community-led, integrated approach to climate action that mobilises a diverse range of public, private and civic partners around a common mission and a test-bed for climate innovation at a district level, including co-creation of innovative place-based participatory approaches

Orléans (France)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Deep Demonstration on Healthy Clean Cities.

Focus areas: Portfolio Development; Cross-sectoral citizen and stakeholder participation; Transition Governance Capacity-Building

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with Orléans Métropole, the Orléans metropolitan region on:

Supporting the design and delivery of an ambitious, cross-cutting and inclusive participatory process to leverage climate transition experiments through awareness-raising, dialogue, deliberation and testing of concrete actions
Capacity building with Orléans Métropole staff and elected officials in transition governance and civic collaboration
Cupporting transition governance by building the capacity to design and manage a portfolio of strategic experiments

Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Deep Demonstration on Healthy Clean Cities.

Focus areas: Portfolio Development; Deep District Retrofitting; Logistics Innovation; Circular Economy

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with the City of Amsterdam on:

Developing a portfolio of strategic experiments to further the city’s climate ambitions
Developing an implementation pathway for integrated district retrofitting (including energy systems, building fabric and a social co-benefits approach) in the Reigersbos area including a scalable blended finance
Positioning the municipality as an enabler of civic climate action, with a focus on cooperatives and citizen energy initiatives
Exploring next horizon regulatory and tax approaches to achieving Amsterdam’s circular economy strategy
Developing a portfolio of smart logistics experiments to discover options for radically reducing the impact of urban logistics through technology-enabled collaborative governance

Edinburgh (Scotland)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Deep Demonstration on Healthy Clean Cities.

Focus areas: Strategic Risk Analysis; Portfolio Development; Net-Zero Development; Whole Community Retrofit; Mobility; Circular Economy.

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with City of Edinburgh Council on:

Developing a portfolio of of strategic experiments to further the city’s climate ambitions, informed by seeing climate change and Covid-19 as strategic risks to the long term prosperity of the city
Developing strategic governance models for new housing development and whole community retrofit that empower residents to shape their community and the development/retrofit process
Apply a ‘just transition’ lens to ensure City of Edinburgh Council’s decarbonisation process also works to lessen inequality
Developing a portfolio of next horizon sustainable mobility experiments

Vienna (Austria)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Deep Demonstration on Healthy Clean Cities.

Focus areas: Portfolio Development; Finance Innovation for Climate Action; Nature-Based Solutions; Circular Building; Governance Innovation

Tomorrowcities.partners are working with the City of Vienna and Brainbows on:

Supporting the city’s integrated climate strategy through a cross-departmental collaboration approach and governance innovation
Co-creating new participation approaches such as a concept for participative budgeting for climate action, and participation in social housing retrofit
Developing a smart climate finance approach through knowledge & capabilities building and strategy development in domains like Nature-Based Solutions
Supporting the City’s circular building ambitions by developing the evidence base and strategy for integrated policy and regulatory action

Malmö (Sweden)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Deep Demonstration on Healthy Clean Cities.

Focus areas: Socio-economic Case for Climate Action; Deep Geothermal Energy; Integrated District Retrofitting.

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with the City of Malmö on:

Further developing a tool to help cities analyse the economic implications of specific climate actions, testing scenarios to understand the socio-economic case for reducing emissions
The tool evaluates the CO₂ reduction potential, air pollution reduction (NOx and PM), investments needed, cost savings, and other societal co-benefits generated for key sectors and 15 specific decarbonisation measures in the city
Developing an integrated participation approach for climate action, including deliberative experiments and evaluating strengths and weaknesses of the City’s engagement work
Developing an integrated and cross-silo housing retrofitting approach combining innovative finance, supply chain innovation and resident collaboration

Copenhagen (Denmark)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Deep Demonstration on Healthy Clean Cities.

Finance innovation; Deep District Retrofitting; Digital Collaboration Platforms.

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with the City of Copenhagen on:

A blended finance fund to support the city’s rapid scaling of energy transition and retrofitting
Scoping a digital platform to accelerate public-private collaboration on climate innovation, and public-civic collaboration on climate action

Krakow (Poland)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC programme Deep Demonstration on Healthy Clean Cities.

Focus areas: Portfolio Development; Deliberative Democracy Implementation.

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with the City of Krakow on:

Developing a portfolio of integrated proofs of possibility for accelerated climate action
Developing a citizen assembly as deliberative democracy experiment to underpin the city’s climate ambitions and enable collaborative transition governance
Developing an integrated active travel strategy to build on positive changes during Covid-19 (growth in cycling), centred on a place-based approach to the city’s Climate Quarter
Creating a scalable approach to large-scale housing retrofitting integrating finance innovation, civic collaboration, supply chain innovation and an emphasis on co-benefits

Zagreb (Croatia)

Part of the EIT Climate–KIC Pandemic Response Projects.

Tomorrowscities.partners are working with the City of Zagreb and the North West Croatia Regional Energy Agency on:

A City Retrofit Fund, a new public entity that integrates retrofit procurement and a long-term financing mechanism, focussed on integrating earthquake recovery funds in a blended finance mechanism that also enables accelerated climate action