1. Dos and don’ts of submitting a proposal
Horizon 2020
Smart Cities & Communities
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Miguel Á. GARCÍA-FUENTES REMOURBAN Project Coordinator Fundación CARTIF

2. Our Smart City background
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3. Ensure and justify that demonstration cities are ready to become lighthouse cities

4. Well-balanced consortium and work plan, representing all the stakeholders needed for the city transformation process
Good justification of their roles and suitability to develop the project tasks

5. How to build a proposal? CONCEPT WORK PLAN IMPACTS
Cohesion and coherency among the different levels
Ensure the balance among all the steps that should be covered within the project: from demonstration to D&C
Provide a credible “story” behind the project (concept), reflecting how the steps are connected (work plan), how they are implemented and the achievements through each of them (impacts)

6. 5,700 citizens directly involved
Demonstration
Source: Jason Hawkes.
Valladolid: Cúpula del Milenio
Balance the interventions and clearly identify them: energy, mobility & ICT
Interventions have to be innovative, credible and feasible, and this has to be reflected in the proposal
Reflect them in a clear and understandable manner, not letting room for doubts on what, where or how the actions will be implemented
Ensure the political commitment and reflect it in the proposal
Business models and financial plans should be very well reflected to be sound, credible and reflect the commitment
50% Energy savings
80% CO2 emissions avoided
5,700 citizens directly involved

7. The focus on replication
Ensure from the proposal a very soundness replication framework, aimed at establishing the links on how to connect the dots between the city demands and the replication of the supply side
Focus on the business models, financing and stakeholders as drivers towards the replication of solutions
Pre-identify (well-justified) the impacts achieved through the replication

8. Showing readiness to exploit, disseminate and communicate
RESULTS
TARGET
TOOLS
IMPACT
RESEARCH
TECHNO DEVELOPMENT
DEMONSTRATION
DISSEMINATION
EXPLOITATION
COMMUNICATION
raise awareness;
extend the impact;
engage stakeholders and target groups;
share a solution and know how;
influence policy and practice;
develop new partnerships
Develop outlined dissemination, communication and exploitation plans based on the pre-identification of results, the targets, the tools and the achieved impact
It is worth spending time on developing consistent plans, which can provide consistency to the whole proposal
The four essentials in the drafted D&C&E Plans:
Pre-identification of project results that will be exploited/communicated/disseminated (messages, commercial products, etc.)
The target audience for dissemination, communication and exploitation (to whom?)
The tools and mechanisms (who?) to ensure proper implementation of the plan
The impact expected to be achieved
Adapted from source: Dissemination, exploitation, impact? Communicating EU research and innovation in Horizon 2020 EC, DG Connect, A2 Robotics

9. Your project impacts IMPACTS QUANTIFIABLE JUSTIFIABLE MEASURABLE
Make use of well-known indicators and set a value
IMPACTS
JUSTIFIABLE
MEASURABLE
Include references to justify the calculated impacts
Ensure the mechanisms to demonstrate to how to measure them
Focus on impacts: relevance to ensure the benefits of the project: justify that it is worth funding it
Quantifiable, measurable, justifiable and describing the means to achieve them
ACHIEVABLE
Justify how they can be achieved through implementing the project