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）个区域和泛欧网络及其合作伙伴聚集在一起，创建一个创新参与者卫星网络，以支持来自欧洲中小城市（SMCs），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SMCs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;提高认识并简化对现有成功的脱碳计划的访问;通过将中小企业，研究人员和投资者与SMC联系起来，支持供需双方之间的匹配;并帮助确定和开放获得资金的渠道，以支持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，其多样化的联盟合作伙伴和卫星网络目标利益相关者的广泛承诺确保了对创新能力较低地区的关注，近100个创新行为者在提案阶段书面确认了参与活动的承诺-包括强调代表性不足的地区和利益相关者。SMCNetZero的愿景是通过经纪和知识建设活动以及数字资源，在SMCNetZero地区建立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，总体上侧重于提高这些创新生态系统的包容性，并最大限度地减少现有的创新鸿沟。

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.