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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Given the increasing number of our Members and Partners working in the field of “Smart City, Sustainable Urban Development” SPCleantech organized on 03.23.2017 the Business Mixer at the headquarters of SPCleantech, NordicHouse, ul. św. Anny 5. Our special guest was dir. Rafał Kulczycki, Development Department of the City of Krakow. Rafał has told us about the strategy for the city of Kraków as one as the leading cities in Poland in the field of Smart cities with sustainable urban development. He stressed the role of SPCleantech as one of the main drivers for sustainable urban  development and declared the will to cooperate with members of SPCleantech in building Krakows capacity to become the leading smart city in Poland.

The meeting on Thursday, 23.03.2017 is also the initiation process of creating the second platform of cooperation among Members and Partners of SPCleantech – “Smart City, Sustainable Urban Development”.

In the meeting participated:

University of Agriculture
INTECH PK, Technological University of Krakow 
LCG Projekt Ltd.
Klucze Municipality
Malopolska Center for Energy-efficient Buildings, Technological University of Krakow 
BLOK Achitekci Sp. z o.o.
City of Krakowa, Department of City Development
MB Energy Sp. z o.o.
C6 Polska Sp. z o.o.
Startup Magazine
GAEU Consulting Sp. z o.o.
APA Group Sp. z o.o.

For the record – the first platform of cooperation within SPCleantech is a “Smart-low emission buildings, their management systems, and ecological building materials”.

Business Mixer is an informal networking meeting for Members and Partners of the cluster in order to establish direct contacts, start joint projects or business.

Smart City
The complexity and pace of change, coupled with the need for integrated system solutions, poses today major challenges for local authorities, which traditionally answered to such needs in a “silos”.

The current situation requires organizational changes and implementation of new innovative technologies. South Poland Cleantech Cluster is trying to provide support for cities, proposing a more integrated approach by creating a platform for regional entrepreneurs to develop and implement the necessary solutions.