The Smart City Guidance Package (SCGP) helps to plan and implement smart city and low energy district projects in an integrated way by describing common situations and giving real-life examples. It bundles the generously shared experiences and expertise of cities, businesses, citizens, research institutes and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) that work together in the European Commission's European Innovation Partnership Smart Cities and Communities, (EIP-SCC), Action Cluster Integrated Policy/Planning and Regulation:

• Support and guidance
• Bundling of experiences
• Learning and sharing
• Evaluation and KPIs
• Replication and Upscaling

The work is based on experiences and insights of EIP-SCC initiatives and is partly funded by NTNU support.

The book is available under an open CC-BY-SA-ND4.0 license:

Smart City Guidance Package – download (pdf)

Please cite as: Smart City Guidance Package: A Roadmap for Integrated Planning and Implementation of Smart City Projects, Borsboom-van Beurden, J.; Kallaos, J.; Gindroz, B.; Costa, S.; Riegler, J. European Innovation Partnership Smart Cities and Communities, Action Cluster Integrated Policy/Planning and Regulation (EIP-SCC): Brussels, Belgium, 2019. [online https://www.ntnu.edu/smartcities/smart-cities-guidance-package]

See news article about its launch at the EU Smart City Marketplace.

Our Ambition

Disseminate guidance to facilitate the uptake of common smart city solutions

Moving from smart city ‘pilots’ to mainstream fully-justified business-as-usual smart city programmes is a current necessity. Cities experience similar challenges and obstacles when implementing plans. Thus, the initiative aims at providing structure that helps to assess common challenges and offers practical guidance material to substantially build confidence and accelerate the uptake of more common smart city solutions.

A concrete deliverable of the initiative is the Smart City Guidance Package (SCGP) together with complementary tools to be developed, such as conceptual as well as technical solutions. This will support the implementation and design of smart city strategies and plans by making best use of capacity and by sharing knowledge and experience. The initiative is built out of ~15 EIP commitments from cities, industry, finance, research sectors and city networks. Smart City projects and initiatives such as CELSIUS, STEP-UP, TRANSFORM, SCIS, CityKey, Lighthouse Projects, Follower Cities are also involved.