These working groups implement priorities identified by the Board of Coordinators. They consist of representatives from Smart Cities and Communities projects and usually meet monthly. Currently, the following groups operate:
- Communication and Dissemination: develops and implements joint communication and dissemination activities, communication and promotional toolkits, and joint participation at key events. It identifies key messages and disseminates project results and data.
- Replication: engages with cities, relevant actors and stakeholders outside of the demonstration areas and promotes technologies and solutions demonstrated in Smart Cities and Communities projects.
- Business Models and Financing: works to scope the innovative business models and financing schemes that the SCC projects have tested, delivered or are scheduling to implement in their ongoing work or replication or scale-up strategy.
- Energy Communities: aims to explore the benefits and challenges of developing energy communities across Europe, developing a common methodology framework, map enabling and driving factors, share experiences and models developed by the SCC projects, develop practical tools for mutual learning and enhance financial models.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: collects practical data, monitoring and reporting processes and tools, develops impact methodologies, provides exchange of data collection, interfacing control systems and databases, algorithms for data set cleaning and dissemination tools. It also engages in peer-to-peer learning and in collaboration with external experts.
Further ‘action clusters’ managed by the Smart Cities Marketplace can be found here.
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