Alessandra Barbieri

Fonction : Project Manager

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iCube is an innovative European Programme designed and developed for researchers and innovators to boost the impacts of their scientific and technological achievements. Through its youris.com public communication and distribution platform and the exploitation advisors iCons Srl we have built our expertise in the design and implementation of communication and exploitation strategies in public-funded research and European projects. iCube adopts a fully integrated communication and exploitation approach and a set of new indicators to measure impacts in terms of awareness, acceptance and uptake (...)

iCube is an innovative European Programme designed and developed for researchers and innovators to boost the impacts of their scientific and technological achievements.

Through its youris.com public communication and distribution platform and the exploitation advisors iCons Srl we have built our expertise in the design and implementation of communication and exploitation strategies in public-funded research and European projects. iCube adopts a fully integrated communication and exploitation approach and a set of new indicators to measure impacts in terms of awareness, acceptance and uptake, which is highly appreciated in EU H2020 projects.

Over the past 20 years we have been supporting the communication and uptake of the achievements of more than 500 national and international initiatives in several scientific and technological domains and we have directly participated in more than 50 EU-funded projects, improving their communication and exploitation potential.

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iCube Programme

Renewable district energy: cities' first step towards decarbonisation

As sustainable energy moves up the political agenda, low carbon solutions for heating and cooling are coming to the fore. District heating in Dresden is turning greener thanks to the Innovation Power Plant (...)

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How will tenants save money with renewable energies?

As Germany’s recent Tenant Electricity Act opens the door to the so-called tenant electricity, Dresden unveils its "Smart Tenants" project to help them saving energy, money and protecting the climate. (...)

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Tampere plants the seeds of a smarter future

This Spring 2019, STARDUST’s Lighthouse city of Tampere networked with various local stakeholders in order to develop the different STARDUST smart urban solutions within the city. On March 2019, the City (...)

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Sexism also exists in botany

An increase in allergies associated with pollen may be a self-inflicted wound caused by our preference for male plants, hence the need to assess better the allergenic potential of green spaces Urban (...)

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Bike, bus, metro, foot: going intermodal

Intermodality is the smart future of urban mobility. Ever more cities need to offer public mobility options that combine several means of transport to decrease the use of private cars Global transport (...)

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Dresden goes green and bids on sustainable mobility

On 21 March, the Smart City of Dresden has been awarded by the EU for its sustainable mobility plan Europe is at the forefront of fighting CO2 emissions. Every year the Union and its agencies organise (...)

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Comparative analysis of standardized indicators for smart sustainable cities: what indicators and standards to use and when?

The choice of the most suitable indicator framework is crucial, but difficult, as it requires expert knowledge. To help cities in their choice, this paper compares seven recently published indicator standards (...)

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Envisaging the Cities of Tomorrow across the Slopes of Trentino

On January 23, 2019, the story of STARDUST in Trento was featured at Klimahouse’s conference on “Smart Cities” in Bolzano. The Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige has invested a great deal on building (...)

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Dresden: a further step towards its Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan 2025plus

The development of the urban mobility of Dresden is one of the cities' core assets. The plan does not only support political decision-makers but also the economy, traffic-related institutions, NGOs, and (...)

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Smart city: enthusiasm but caution on new 5G technology

5G networks no doubt have the technological specs necessary to power smart cities, but without careful design and planning the complexity of integrating everything from traffic to health care could prove (...)

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Energy's got game

Saving the planet can mean saving money and having fun. This is not wishful thinking but a reality that is happening with gamification all over the world Playing games could be a solution to saving energy (...)

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When circular buildings go on air

A podcast featuring the European project HOUSEFUL and its commitment to make buildings more sustainable has been released Circular economy is all over the place in the policy scene since the European (...)

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Fast-tracking smart city solutions using hackathons

One team was chosen during the Junction hackathon event that was held from 23rd to 25th of November 2018 in Espoo (Finland) to collaborate with the STARDUST partners in Tampere Technology is fast evolving (...)

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Climate change: trees to the rescue

Bringing nature back into cities can help fight global warming Fighting climate change is the challenge of the century. The last UN Environment Emissions Gap Report warned that, in order to ensure global (...)

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A City’s Mission to turn itself into an Urban Laboratory

On December 11, 2018, Smart Iruña Lab program selected 6 technological proposals that will be developed under the Smart City strategy of Pamplona STARDUST’s Lighthouse City of Pamplona launched the Smart (...)

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Towards elections: which future for EU-backed nature-based solutions (NBS)?

The EU has heavily invested in projects to renature cities. After the European elections, a new executive will head the EU. What will happen to the NBS policy? The so-called "nature-based solutions" (NBS (...)

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On the road towards liveable cities

On November 29, 2018, the representatives of STARDUST’s Lighthouse City of Trento organised their 1st Stakeholder Workshop on how to tailor technical solutions electric mobility, according to the local (...)

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Mix and Move in Trento

From the 16th to the 22nd of September, the local authorities from the city of Trento celebrated alongside other cities the European Mobility Week under the theme of multimodality. The European Mobility (...)

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Renaturing cities: cooperation manifesto launched at the World Forum on Urban Forests

URBAN GreenUp and other EU projects jointly signed a document in Mantua, Italy, to promote and boost the adoption of nature-based solutions in urban areas worldwide. “Nature is often seen as a problem (...)

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STARDUST : smart with a heart

The STARDUST project participated in the 4th Nordic Edge Expo & Conference held in Stavanger, Norway, from September 25 to 27 Along with the rest of the Smart City Community, in late September 2018, (...)

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The Crown for a Better World goes to STARDUST

On the eve of November 21 in Brussels (Belgium), the European project STARDUST received the 2018 .eu Web Award for its website www.stardustproject.eu under the “Better World” Category. The .eu Web Awards (...)

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Are smart cities ready for Europe's new privacy measures?

By providing citizens with a bigger power and control over their personal information, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represents a challenge to smart cities, which use also personal data (...)

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Introducing a more sustainable way of life through Gaming

The STARDUST’s Gaming Tool challenge was held during Pamplona a hackathon within “Navarra LAN Party” On September 14, STARDUST’s fellow city of Pamplona (Spain) hosted the Navarra LAN Party, which included (...)

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STARDUST Meets the Dragon

STARDUST’s City of Tampere was acknowledged during the Smart City Expo China 2018 for its goal to build a smart and sustainable future for its citizens On September 5, the city of Tampere was awarded a (...)

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Tackling the barriers that keep nature off the cities

The URBAN GreenUP analysis on obstacles hampering the implementation of Nature-Based Solutions and the related countermeasures is now available Making our cities more sustainable and less harmful for the (...)

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Dresden establishes a network of 76 mobility hubs

Users can quickly switch between bicycle, car sharing, electric car and public transport. Dresden, the state capital of Saxony, Germany wants to set up 76 mobility hubs in the city area. At these stations (...)

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Big boilers from Reick

Trial operation has begun for the latest heat towers of the storage tanks at Reick power station. The Technical University of Dresden monitors the effectiveness of the district heating system. Thomas Dautert (...)

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Have your say on circular houses

An online survey collects inputs on how to best introduce circularity in the housing sector The HOUSEFULproject has launched a stakeholder consultation process on the development of a methodology for evaluating (...)

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Transforming Academic Research into more tangible actions for Smart Cities

Three research institutions from the STARDUST consortium shared their insights with a network of Spanish universities as to how Smart Cities can act as exemplary figures for replication to their regions (...)

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The URBAN GreenUP catalogue of Nature-Based solutions is now public

The document provides a detailed description of the green urban interventions implemented by the project URBAN GreenUP has released a Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) catalogue, which is publicly available (...)

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Orienting Northern Irelands’ Businesses towards the use of Sustainable Energy

A seminar for businesses in Northern Ireland on clean energy was held in the city of Derry The month of June hosted the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) took place in Brussels and across Europe (...)

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Hacking into the City’s Infrastructure for a Brighter Future

Disruptive ideas on Smart City Solutions were showcased in Tampere’s industrial Hackathon innovation challenge On June 5 and 6, the City of Tampere – one of STARDUST’s Lighthouse cities – organised its (...)

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Liverpool, a frontrunner city in re-naturing public spaces

The English city is leaving behind its maritime past by introducing innovative green solutions into its urban spaces If you happen to swing by Liverpool in the future, you will probably see a tree urban (...)

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Stardust released its project video

The European Stardust project has released its project video. It provides an opportunity for viewers to be familiar with the project and its actions. Stardust is a Smart Cities and Communities (SCC) project (...)

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