THE SMARTEES PROJECT

LOCAL SOCIAL INNOVATION

DELIVERABLES*

Highlighted deliverables

SMARTEES Exploitation Business Plan

 

Deliverable 8.4; October 2021  > Download

 

Authors: Trevor Graham, Urbanisland

 

The report presents the work that has been and will be carried out until the end of the project to develop the Business plan for the SMARTEES Policy Sandbox Tool, a tool which aims to support local governments in making decisions by allowing policy and decision makers to explore social dynamics in a local context and to test different effects that social innovations could have on policy outcomes and citizen behaviour. The document considers product maturity, demand, ability to pay, costs, marketing and partner roles for the delivery of a post-project exploitation service.

 

Documentation report of the results of the Follower Cities workshops

 

Deliverable 8.3; October 2021  > Download

 

Authors: Ralph Ripken, Elma Meskovic, Sara de Maio, Niklas Mischkowski (ICLEI)

 

This report summarises a series of ten study visits that were organised and facilitated by ICLEI to share the activities and socially innovative experiences of the SMARTEES reference cases (focusing on the potential of Agent-based Modelling) with the relevant group of Follower Cities and Follower Islands that were mobilised in the project.

 

Report on scenario development and experiments for selected cases

 

Deliverable 7.4; October 2021  > Download

 

Authors: Loes Bouman, Patrycja Antosz; Wander Jager; Gary Polhill; Doug Salt; Andrea Scalco; Amparo Alonso-Betanzos; Noelia Sánchez-Maroño; Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas; Alejandro Rodríguez

 

This report presents a number of policy scenario experiments for the reference cases of Groningen, Vitoria Gasteiz, Aberdeen Barcelona, Stockholm, Stockholm, Malmö, Samsø and El Hierro, and the following cases of Budapest and The Western Isles.

 

Report on the updated theoretical framework for social innovation diffusion

 

Deliverable 6.2; October 2021  > Download

 

Authors: Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini (NTNU), Patricia Albulescu (UVT), Wander Jager (UG), Erica Löfström (NTNU), Irina Macsinga (UVT), Amparo Alonso-Betanzos (UDC), Loes Bouman (UG), Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas (UDC), Gary Polhill (JHI), , Alejandro Rodríguez-Arias (UDC), Doug Salt (JHI), Noelia Sánchez-Maroño (UDC)

 

This report on the updates the theoretical framework for social innovation diffusion, especially the theoretical stances elaborated in previous SMARTEES reports in the light of the simulations results that have been achieved.

 

Handbook for the development of policy scenarios workshops supporting energy transitions

 

Handbook for policy scenario development; October 2021  > Download

 

Authors:Adina Dumitru, Isabel Lema Blanco, Irina Macsingaand Patricia Albulescu

 

This practical guide aims to stimulate creative andreflexive learning processes, engaging workshopparticipants in the facilitated debate around theprocesses and the outcomes of implementing innovativepolicies as well as the co-definition of alternative policypathway.

 

Handbook with guidelines for the co-production of future policy scenarios and interventions

 

Deliverable 5.3; October 2021  > Download

 

Authors:Adina Dumitru, Isabel Lema-Blanco (UDC), Irina Macsinga, Patricia Albulescu (WUT), Wander Jager (UG), Niklas Mischkowski (ICLEI)

 

This handbook outlines the methodology for the development of alternative policy scenarios and illustrates it with examples on how the policy scenario workshop methodology was implemented in five clusters of social innovations: (i) Holistic, shared, and persistent mobility planning; (ii) Island renaissance based on renewable energy production; (iii) Energy efficiency in district regeneration; (iv) Urban mobility with superblocks; and (v) Co-ordinated, tailored, and inclusive energy efficiency schemes for fighting fuel poverty.

 

Policy Recommendations for each cluster of case-studies: Insights from policy scenario workshops

 

Deliverable 5.2; August 2021  > Download

 

Authors:Dumitru, A. Lema Blanco, I., Albulescu, P., Antosz, P., Bouman, L., Colley, K., Craig, T., Jager, W., Macsinga, I., Meskovic, E., Mischkowski, N., Pellegrini Masini, G., Polhill, G., Quinti, G., Salt, D., Somervail, P., Wilson, R.

 

The report presents the results of the policy scenario workshops implemented in five clusters of social innovations: (i) Holistic, shared, and persistent mobility planning (Zürich, Switzerland and Groningen, the Netherlands); (ii) Island renaissance based on renewable energy production (Samsø, Denmark and El Hierro, Spain); (iii) Energy efficiency in district regeneration (Malmö and Stockholm, Sweden); (iv) Urban mobility with superblocks (Vitoria-Gasteiz and Barcelona, Spain); and (v) Coordinated, tailored, and inclusive energy efficiency schemes for fighting fuel poverty (Aberdeen, United Kingdom and Timişoara, Romania).

 

SMARTEES Policy Sandbox IT Tool and Workshop Concept

 

Deliverable 8.2; June 2021  > Download

 

Authors: Elma Meskovic, Niklas Mischkowski (ICLEI)

 

The report presents the work that has been and will be carried out until the end of the project to develop the SMARTEES Policy Sandbox Tool, which aims to support local governments in making decisions by allowing policy and decision makers to explore social dynamics in a local context and to test different effects that social innovations could have on policy outcomes and citizen behaviour.

 

SMARTEES Integrated Research White Paper

 

Deliverable 2.3; June 2021  > Download

 

Authors: Francisco Villagarcia, Jed Cohen, Andrea Kollmann, Johannes Reichl, Rudi Kapeller, Dina Musina, Ryan O’Reilly, Doug Salt, Gabriele Quinti, and Christian A. Klöckner

 

The SMARTEES Integrated Research White Paper defines and catalogues the interdisciplinary ecosystem of SMARTEES, including research questions, methods and theories.

 

Report on Workshops

 

Deliverable 2.4; February 2021 > Download

 

Authors: Jed J. Cohen, Ryan O'Reilly, Andrea Kollmann

 

This deliverable 2.4 gives and overview of the interdisciplinary research workshops on theory and methods, that have been held during the SMARTEES projects, and their outcomes. Overall, the workshop series was a key part in fostering broader collaboration amongst researchers. Explore the deliverable to learn more about the key insights from this process.

 

SMARTEES simulation implementations

 

Deliverable 7.3; December 2020 > Download

 

Authors: Patrycja, Antosz; Wander, Jager; Gary, Polhill; Doug, Salt; Andrea, Scalco; Amparo, Alonso-Betanzos; Noelia, SánchezMaroño; Bertha, Guijarro-Berdiñas; Alejandro, Rodríguez

 

This deliverable 7.3 report shows it can be done: computer-simulating the essential behavioural dynamics of different processes of social innovation. Adopting a new technology or changing a common practice is often the talk-of-the-town, generating a lot of interaction in local communities. The social dynamics that arise come with the sharing and valuation of different sorts of information, where networks and norms often play an important role in the success or failure of innovations.

 

Report on social innovation drivers, barriers, actors and network structures

 

Deliverable 6.1; November 2019 > Download

 

Authors: Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini, Irina Macsinga, Patricia Albulescu, Erica Löfström, Coralia Sulea, Adina Dumitru, Alim Nayum

 

This report on Deliverable 6.1 identifies all relevant actors and their social networks, and highlights the drivers of and the barriers to social innovations analysed in all case clusters in SMARTEES. Input is given for the Agent-Based Models constructed prior, simulating the dynamic development of a significant aspect of each social innovation. The report explicates how processes of social energy innovation can be fostered with respect to specific types of actors and their networks.

 

Theoretical framework for the definition of locally embedded future policy scenarios

 

Deliverable 5.1; October 2019  > Download

 

Authors:Isabel Lema Blanco, Adina Dumitru

 

The report presents the common conceptual framework for the development of locally
embedded policy scenarios in the SMARTEES case study cities and islands. The conceptual framework will inform the methodology for the co-creation of policy scenarios in each case. It is also a tool to help policy-makers conceptualize and implement policies to increase citizen engagement, acceptance of energy policies, adoption of sustainable energy behaviour and to adequately manage setbacks and conflicts in the process.

Report on Profiles of Social Innovation “In Action” for Each Cluster

 

Deliverable 3.1; April 2019 > Download

 

Authors: Giovanni Caiati; Federico L. Marta; Gabriele M. Quinti (all K&I)

 

This deliverable provides an overview of social innovation (SI) “in action” in the five thematic clusters studied in SMARTEES (each cluster includes two empirical cases). For each cluster, an SI profile has been prepared. Common elements of the five SI profiles, as well as cluster-specific characteristics, are highlighted. Ten detailed information sheets (one per each empirical case) are included in the appendix of the deliverable.

 

Policy Brief: Social Innovation in the Energy Transition in Action

 

Deliverable 3.3; May 2019  > Download

 

Authors: Giovanni Caiati; Federico L. Marta; Gabriele M. Quinti (all K&I)

 

This Policy Brief explains why the transition to a low-carbon society is not only a matter of technological solutions but of social and political nature. It further highlights that local social innovation (SI) plays a key role in the energy transition and specifies the key related characteristics of SI. It concludes by presenting policy implications arising from the outcomes of the SMARTEES research of social innovation in the energy transition.

 

Report on Five Models of Social Innovation

 

Deliverable 3.4; June 2019  > Download

 

Authors: Giovanni Caiati; Federico L. Marta; Gabriele M. Quinti (all K&I)

 

This deliverable outlines the models of social innovation processes in the five thematic clusters considered in SMARTEES. The structural change model was applied to analyse the social innovation processes in the five clusters. The document identifies four main features characterising structural change processes in the field of the energy transition at the local level: irreversibility, comprehensiveness, inclusiveness, and contextualisation. From this perspective, the analysis of social innovation in each cluster is presented.

Other deliverables


Integrated Research White Paper – Version 1

 

Deliverable 2.1; October 2018 > Download

 

Authors: Jed Cohen, Johannes Reichl, Valeriya Azarova, Andrea Kollmann, Doug Salt, and Patrycja Antosz

 

This deliverable constitutes the draft version of the SMARTEES Integrated Research White Paper, the purpose of which is to define and catalogue the interdisciplinary ecosystem of SMARTEES, including research questions, methods and theories. The purpose of the current paper in its draft form is to serve as a starting point and basis for building the research plan of the project, including the various agent-based modelling (ABM) efforts and the case studies.

Catalogue of Elements to Be Considered in Modelling for Comprehensive and Exhaustive Reflection of Relationships between the Relevant Agents in the ABM (Version 1)

 

Deliverable 2.2; December 2018  > Download

 

Authors: Cohen, J.; Reichl, J.; Azarova, V.; Kollmann, A. (all EI-JKU)

 

The main goal of this deliverable is to support the integration of social science perspectives with agent-based modelling (ABM) efforts, and the comparison of ABM frameworks from the various SMARTEES modelling teams.

Report on the Conceptual Model of the SMARTEES Simulation and Data Types to Be Included

 

Deliverable 7.1; August 2018  > Download

 

Authors: Patrycja Antosz, Wander Jager, Gary Polhill, Jiaqi Ge, Doug Salt, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Noelia Sánchez-Maroño, Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas

 

This paper reports on the conceptual model of the SMARTEES simulation and data formats to be included. It provides conceptual solutions to integrate the different ABM traditions regarding the different layers in processes of social innovation (FEARLUS), human decision-making (CONSUMAT) and the habitual patterns of behaviour (decision trees or alternative machine learning methods). It also provides a description of the data types that can be incorporated into the project.

Simulation Model Implementing Different Relevant Layers of Social Innovation, Human Choice Behaviour and Habitual Structures

 

Deliverable 7.2; August 2019  > Download

 

Authors: Patrycja Antosz, Wander Jager, Gary Polhill, Doug Salt, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Noelia Sánchez-Maroño, Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas, Alejandro Rodríguez

 

SMARTEES studies how the roles of various stakeholders influence the dynamics of social innovation diffusions in ten European cases. An important challenge in learning about the success – and possible risks of failure – of these cases resides in understanding how policy development and community dynamics interacted. To explore this systematically, SMARTEES ABM architecture was designed and described in detail in this deliverable.

* Please note that presented deliverables have not been approved by the European Commission yet.

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