ACIDD : A new project for a green and connected city.
Together with the
European Commission, ACIDD is setting up a new project which aims to get economical leaders and local authorities together to work on developing urban projects, promoting ICT, encouraging energy efficiency, sharing practices and experiences and creating a working group to reflect on these approaches.
The first stage in this programme takes place on the 27 May in Brussels.
Collaboration already includes: The Centre, The Mediterranean Union, the European Agency for the Environment, Fedarene, Eurocities and GeSI.
This forum, under the patronages of Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media, will be the occasion to discuss the creation of a European network for ICT and how to increase energy efficiency, whilst also calling for the creation of a project by the CIP of the European commission, chalked up by the ACIDD and TIC21.
Alexandra Debaisieux, consultant in European Affairs, supports the measures proposed by ACIDD :
This project concerns climate change and energy efficiency. It is financed by the European Commission and unites businesses, research centres, associations and institutions alike. For example, two businesses in the Construction industry in Greece, who are very environmentally conscious, want to go further in their approach to intelligent building. They are researching the market by analysing consumer trends, in partnership with the University of Athens. Businesses are at present in contact with research centres. That’s how the agency for Energy in Slovenia got involved in the programme. This consortium, which is no longer looking for associates, brings together partners originating from 10 European countries. Three working groups will be created around the following topics: Construction and ICT, Transport and ICT and the society’s behaviour patterns.
The issue is to organise the many different projects that deal with ICT and energy efficiency that are beginning to be launched, to reflect upon them and to experiment with them.
For this reason we will create, in association with the European Agency for the Environment, a database to capitalise on present thinking on sustainable town planning. In Europe these questions have been discussed for a long time. After a stage of investments to study the subject, Europe now undertakes real pilots.
