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Fabrizio Colimberti Policy Officer Unit B1 Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD)

The High-Level Expert Group on ‘Innovative Cities’ focuses on addressing urban challenges by meeting diverse urban needs, reducing negative impacts, and guiding investment in EU research and innovation actions. Comprising urban thematic experts, the group aims to deliver a strategic research agenda aligning with international policy frameworks and setting R&I priorities for sustainable, human-centered cities. By emphasizing urban infrastructure, circularity, resilience, prosperity, and governance, the group seeks to drive innovation, creativity, and inclusivity in city development. Horizon Europe, the future R&I framework, will fund urban R&I actions under the 'Cities and Communities' area, encouraging an integrated approach involving all stakeholders and citizens in shaping the cities of the future.

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Fabrizio Colimberti Policy Officer Unit B1 Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD)

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  1. EU R&I for Cities of the Future- High-Level Expert Group on ‘Innovative Cities’- Horizon Europe EUROCITIES Economic Development Forum meetingFlorence, 27 March 2019 Fabrizio Colimberti Policy Officer Unit B1 Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD) European Commission

  2. High-Level Expert Group on ‘Innovative cities’ • Today’s urban challenges to address • Better meet the diverse urban needs of citizens, business and industry; offer more and more attractive choices • Reduce negative impacts: climate change, congestion, road accidents, air and water pollution, wastes and health issues • Launched on 12 June 2018 to assist the EC in formulating a ‘Strategic Research & innovation Agenda’ (SRIA) to foster a systemic and cross-sectorial ‘urban ecosystem’ framework to guide investment in EU R&I actions for cities • The Group consists of 9 experts and 2 observers covering urban thematic areas (e.g. mobility; energy efficiency; climate change; social inclusion & social innovation; food systems; circular cities; resource efficiency; digital cities; resilience; etc.)

  3. High-Level Expert Group on ‘Innovative cities’ • Report expected to be delivered in July 2019 • It accounts for targets set out at international urban-relevant policy frameworks: COP21 Paris Agreement, 1.5 IPCC for cities, UN Sustainable Development Goals, notably Goal 11 (Sustainable cities and communities) • It aligns with the ongoing Strategic Research & Innovation Agendas (e.g. EU SRIA on Urban mobility, Strategic Agenda of JPI Urban Europe, Fab City Manifesto, Global Covenant of Mayors ‘Innovate4Cities’ Agenda, etc. • Contribution of strategic partners such as EUROCITIES (with Experts MartonMatkoand Nathalie Guri) • Charles Landry as Chair of the Group (‘The Creative Bureaucracy’) • Shift to ‘human-centered city’: citizens as makers, shapers, ‘right to the city’ (active citizenship)

  4. High-Level Expert Group on ‘Innovative cities’– some draft points • Two critical issues related to urban infrastructure • Decarbonisation & 1.5% global temperature increase limit – planning; renewables; energy production & storage; efficiency; construction; mobility and shared mobility • Circularity & sharing: reuse and recycle; recyclability by design; adaptive reuse; eco-friendly planning & design logic; imaginative waste & sewage systems • Sketching R&I priorities • Building resilience (‘future proofing’): develop skills; strengthen institutional capacity; expert staff; engage citizens; identify incentives (nudges) • Prosperity: human-driven development & finance for innovation; creativity, culture, skills & unequal distribution of opportunities; mixity and diversity; economies and diseconomies • Governance: reinforce testing grounds & experiments; support city-led governance initiatives (possible with research entities as a sounding board); connect to the public innovation movement; measuring impact & move beyond GDP

  5. Horizon Europe:The future framework Programme for R&I • Under Horizon Europe (2021-2027), urban R&I actions will be funded under the ‘Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness’ pillar, from several clusters (macro areas) • Cluster 4 on ‘Climate, Energy and Mobility’ foresees an intervention area on ‘Cities and Communities’ • An integrated approach encompassing research, innovation, policy and socio-economic studies and circular economy models will be necessary • Co-creation, co-development and co-implementation with involvement of all relevant actors and citizens in cities across the European Union and worldwide

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