WP 6 - Cooperation with SCC1 network and knowledge exchange

This deliverable provides practical recommendations on 10 cross-cutting issues. Cross-cutting issues are priority areas, which were identified and agreed upon by the SCC1 clusters during 2018 when new PED projects were to be financed (the clusters have now merged with the Smart city Marketplace). The document targets several actors in order to support them in their PED implementation and replication journey: Enablers, Decision makers, Implementers and Multipliers.

The deliverable addresses the task T6.2 Building recommendations on cross-cutting issues to describe the ongoing work and fill in the existing knowledge gaps. Positive Energy District (PED) is a specific type of project that very well represents the complexity of smart city implementation. The growing body of evidence on PED implementation in SPARCS cities and beyond is therefore helpful to frame and map the cross-cutting issues that cities are facing in complex smart city projects focusing on energy, mobility and data.