Smart V4 Strategies

South Poland Cleantech Cluster participates in a newly started Visegrad project together with partners – Czech Smart City Cluster, Slovak Smart City Cluster and Digitalis Jolet nonprofit from Hungary. The project “Smart V4 Strategies” was awarded financing support from the Visegrad Fund.

The aim of the project is to connect relevant partners in the given area of SMART strategies and prepare procedures for classification of SMART strategies in V4 countries into one complex database portal. The project offers V4 partners international cooperation in unifying SMART strategies to GreenDeal/SDG rules. The vision is to strengthen the unity and effectiveness in implementation of SMART strategies in all V4 countries.
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South Poland Cleantech Cluster

is the initiator of the krk UrbanHub project - a sustainable CEE (Central- and Eastern European) urbanization hub
krakowurbanhub is a partner in the urbanhub europe consortium of European cities consisting of BLOXHUB in Copenhagen, KIRAHub in Helsinki, Munich Urban Colab, FACTORY Hammerbrooklyn Hamburg, FAKTORY Berlin, Urban Resilience Hub Barcelona
krk UrbanHub is a national and international meeting place that engages people in architecture, design and sustainable urban development. This is done through exhibitions, debates, events, business development and new partnerships.
krk UrbaHhub is an ecosystem for creating cities of the future, and at the same time a space to share ideas, skills and strategies for designing buildings and urban development based on a people-centered approach and high standards of sustainable development, and a membership-based community combining urban development, architecture, design, design, construction, circular economy and digitization.
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South Poland Cleantech Cluster

SPCleantech is co-founder of European Alliance for Cross- Industrial Circular Economy Investments (ICEI Alliance) consisting of European clusters and universities. During 2020-2021 there have been held meetings to prepare the establishment of the European Alliance for Cross- Industrial Circular Economy Investments, hosted by the Circular Economy Centre at Digipolis, Kemi, Finland.

The ICEI Alliance has for ambition to make Europe the global industrial circular economy platform to accelerate the deployment of world-class circular economy solutions to industry. It acts as a pipeline of business-led circular economy investment projects. Alliance members support businesses with the structuring of their investment cases as well as with accessing funding and financing streams.
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Conference “Smart City – innovative construction of the future”

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On May 26, 2022, SPCleantech took part in the conference “Smart City – innovative construction of the future”. One of the key topics of the conference was the question whether Krakow can be a “smart city” and can Poland, and in particular the Małopolskie Voivodeship, also boast innovative solutions in the field of construction and city management?

Apart from SPCleantech, the conference was attended by other cluster members such as: Horizone Studio and 5 out of 8 members of the ark UrbanHub Council: Janusz Kahl, Małgorzata Tomczyk, Krzysztof Goerlich, Bartłomiej Kisielewski and Tomasz Janowski.

During the event, the topics of innovation and new technologies as well as environmental protection in urban space and construction were discussed. The contemporaneity and future of urban space and infrastructure were also considered. Invited to the discussion were, inter alia, companies from Małopolska, such as Horizone Studio or Qmodular, which can boast of their contribution in terms of thinking about the renewal of the resources used, thinking about business in relational terms and, above all, long-term planning.

The meeting was opened by Maciej Jagaciak, futurist, Member of the Board of the Polish Society for the Study of the Future, introducing the topic of the city of the future. During the first discussion panel on ecological construction, we wondered what actually ecological construction is all about? What methods are used in new buildings to save on their later operation? Does it pay off? Among the invited experts, we also talked about the social aspect of eco-construction, its impact on the environment and savings resulting from such solutions.

The second conversation during the conference concerned an innovative city. Every year, there are more and more innovative solutions in cities that improve the energy efficiency of buildings and their functionality. An integrated building management system should complement modern building technologies. What distinguishes cheap, easy-to-maintain and modern house designs? Is it worth choosing an “intelligent house”?

The conference was addressed to representatives of business, universities and public institutions interested in innovation and developing cooperation with Małopolska. Representatives of business environment institutions and local governments dealing with business cooperation were also invited.