RECO2.0 Resilient Smart City Solutions Ecosystem

1.     Launching the development platform, identifying the issues to be worked on and making them a daily activity.
2.     Ensuring the continuity of the development platform and making it a permanent activity.
3.     Utilizing the data generated in the urban environment as the basis for new business
4.     Refining the concept of a smart and carbon-negative block as part of long-term roadmaps
5.     Identifying the education needs for a sustainable and smart city and linking them to the education ecosystem.

RECO2.0 project continues the work that begun in the Resilient Smart City Solutions Ecosystem
RECO project
The results from the Transition Arena workshop series in the earlier RECO project were exploited also in the design framework of this new project. The target in the Transition Arena was to compose a road map and steps toward the year 2035 on how to reach and build a new carbon neutral housing district.
The huge change and transformation in the society challenges the ways of how things have been done earlier. Complex problems and developing world require new methods to find solutions. The development platform and ecosystem finances as the co-development tools enable ways to find systemic conclusions. The city departments and companies are often working in silos, which can make efficient development work difficult, but this can be helped by creating shared and common ways to communicate and cooperate between important actors. Actions in this project create business opportunities in local ecosystems and also pathways to identified international markets in the most advantageous financial locations.
The project enhances low-carbon construction business, urban environment ICT solutions and energy production, distribution and energy efficiency themes that stem from the R&D innovation functions that has potential to become viable business.
There will be as project results the new permanent development platform which will bring city departments and their needs in closer cooperation with private and public research and businesses. The community will be gathered to take forward the city development sector. Suitable common project frames will be recognized and research ideas will be taken into finance stage preparation. New business models will be identified for urban data sector in the ecosystems. Smart city block concept will be crafted as part of the long term road map for the sustainable construction. Education needs will be taken into advise for education development organizations, on both government and city level. The knowledge and education cooperation network will be created.