Achieving Net-Zero through Innovation in Small and Medium sized Cities

SMCNetZero将欧洲六个成功的城市创新计划与七(7)个区域和泛欧洲网络及其合作伙伴结合在一起，创建了一个创新行为者卫星网络，以支持来自欧洲各地中小城市(SMC)、中小企业、学术界、非政府组织和投资者的公共部门代表，以促进SMC的脱碳。SMCNetZero将利用其多样化的卫星网络深入了解SMC的需求和障碍；提高认识并简化获得支持脱碳的现有成功倡议的途径；通过将中小企业、研究人员和投资者与SMC联系起来，支持供需双方的配对；并帮助确定和开放资金，以促进目前在欧洲创新生态系统中代表性不足的SMC的创新部署。SMCNetZero的独特之处在于，其不同的财团合作伙伴和卫星网络目标利益攸关方的广泛承诺确保了重点放在创新能力较弱的地区，近100个创新行为者在提案阶段书面确认承诺参与活动--包括重点放在基本上代表不足的地区和利益攸关方。SMCNetZero的愿景是通过经纪和知识建设活动以及数字资源，在SMCNetZero地区创建和加强当地创新生态系统的相互关系，以提高规划、部署和扩大脱碳解决方案的能力，总体上专注于增加这些创新生态系统的包容性，并最大限度地缩小现有的创新差距。

SMCNetZero brings together six successful urban innovation initiatives in Europe with seven (7) regional and Pan-European networks and their partners to create a Satellite Network of innovation actors to support public sector representatives from Small and Medium sized cities (SMCs), SMEs, academia, NGOs and investors across Europe to facilitate decarbonisation in SMCs. SMCNetZero will leverage its diverse Satellite Network to gain an in-depth understanding of SMC needs and barriers; raise awareness and simplify access to existing successful initiatives supporting decarbonisation; support matchmaking between supply and demand sides by linking SMEs, researchers, and investors with SMCs; and help identify and open access to funding for enabling innovation deployment in SMCs currently underrepresented in the European innovation ecosystem. SMCNetZero is unique in that its diverse consortium partners and broad commitment from target stakeholders in the Satellite Network ensure focus in regions with less innovation capacity, with written confirmed commitment from nearly 100 innovation actors at the proposal stage, to participate in the activities - including an emphasis on largely underrepresented regions and stakeholders. SMCNetZero’s vision is to create and strengthen local innovation ecosystems’ interrelations in SMCNetZero regions through brokerage and knowledge-building activities as well as digital resources to increase capacity for planning, deploying and scaling-up of decarbonisation solutions, overall focusing on increasing the inclusivity of these innovation ecosystems and minimizing existing innovation divides.