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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On 20.06.2018, SPCleantech organized, in cooperation with AGH and Zielone Podhale, the conference “Energy self-sufficient municipalities?”. The conference took place at Centrum Informatyki, AGH in Kraków. The patron of the conference was the Ministry of Energy, and the partner was the Association of Municipalities and Districts of Małopolska (SGPM).

During the conference “Energy self-sufficient municipalities?” we learned about the latest plans of the Ministry of Energy, pilot certificates of energy clusters, possibilities of financing energy clusters’ operations, and is the legal environment conducive to the development of energy clusters? During the conference, a discussion panel was organized with the participation of ME, NFOŚiGW, clusters and specialists.

Conference “Energy self-sufficient municipalities?”

Energy clusters are a pioneering idea, not only on the Polish scale. Their task is to stimulate local communities to cooperate and generate energy from renewable sources for their own needs. According to preliminary assumptions, the cluster is to co-create several entities in a given area that will jointly produce and manage electricity. The cluster could include residents, entrepreneurs, local government, scientific units or non-governmental organizations. Each of the clusters would be represented by the coordinator. This function can be performed by a foundation, a cooperative or a cluster member chosen for that purpose.

Clusters are to contribute to ensuring energy security for local communities regardless of external supply of raw materials and to stimulate pro-consumer energy. They are also to translate into lowering energy costs for end users. In sparsely developed areas, energy clusters may, however, improve the competitiveness of the local economy and contribute to the restructuring of rural areas. The aspect of environmental protection is also important.

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