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Energy, General

Guide to replicate Smart Energy Efficiency Services

In cooperation with several other European projects, SMARTSPACES developed one ‘Guide for Replication’. The ‘Guide’ presents how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be utilised to improve energy efficiency (EE) …

Energy, General

SMARTSPACES papers presented at the ECEEE

Following the successful completion of the EU project SMARTSPACES, project partners presented different aspects of the project as part of the summer study of the European Council for an Energy …

Energy, General

Bristol pilot site launches SMARTSPACES Professional Suite

Building on the success of the SMARTSPACES Service, which has been running in Bristol since the start of 2013, Bristol City Council and SystemsLink have now developed a further suite …

Energy, General

SMARTSPACES Project Final Report Published

As the recently published final report on the SMARTSPACES project shows, financial pay-off is achieved by most stakeholders during the first 3 years and by almost all stakeholders after ten …

General, Research & Innovation

Cradle to Cradle as an economic principle for Venlo

Antoin Scholten, mayor of the Venlo City, received a frontrunner award for the Venlo region. The C2C PII handed over this unique award to the Venlo region because of the …

Energy, General

After service implementation: energy savings more than three times higher than expected in Lleida

After implementing energy saving measures at the pilot site in Lleida, the gas consumption has been already reduced by 50% and and by 30% in the electricity consumption in four …

Energy, General

SMARTSPACES “Project to Watch” by the United Nations

SMARTSPACES has been named a “Project to Watch” as an innovative energy reduction project by the United Nations’ Big Data Climate Challenge. The Big Data Climate Challenge, hosted by UN …

eSkills & Work, General

e-Leadership Skills for SMEs: Interim Report, May 2015, available online

This is the interim report of the e-leadership skills initiative targeting start-ups and fast growing SMEs. Work is in progress and is scheduled to be finished in September 2015 and …

eSkills & Work

New videos demonstrating the e-leadership skills relevance for industry, new statistics and forecasts (2020), new educational ecosystem fostering digital transformation are available online

The videos entitled “¢ ‘e-Leadership – what it is and why it is relevant for industry’, “¢ ‘e-Leadership demand and supply in Europe from today to 2020′”¢ ‘Educational Ecosystem Fostering …

eSkills & Work

ICT workforce increase in Europe: e-skills policy created the right framework

The supply of freshly trained computer scientists has been slowly decreasing from 2007. In 2012 114,000 Computer Science first degrees were awarded. At the same time, the ICT workforce was …

eSkills & Work, General

e-Leadership conference in Berlin: Is Germany well placed to succeed?

The skills needed for rapid growth of SMEs and start-ups: a view from Germany”e-Leadership skills into the Digital Economy” Conference, 21 April 2015, EIT ICT Labs, BerlinThis conference was part …

eSkills & Work, General

Recommendations of KETs Skills Initiative tried out in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

The sectoral pilots, carried out by PwC, implied conducting an in-depth analysis of the status quo regarding skills issues in a selected KET in three Member States. Based on this …