Overview
About ASCEND Project
ASCEND is a Horizon Europe implementation project Accelerating poSitive Clean ENergy Districts in Europe. The project aims to make Positive Clean Energy Districts a routine occurrence to mitigate the effects of climate change and enable citizens to live in inclusive, resilient, and smart communities.
With active engagement and actions in two Lighthouse Cities - Lyon and Munich - and six Multiplier Cities - Alba Iulia, Charleroi, Budapest, Porto, Prague, and Stockholm - ASCEND covers a large diversity of districts such as city centres, urban outskirts, ageing residential areas, or industrial brownfields.
They all set out to build Positive Clean Energy Districts incorporating active citizenship, building smart energy grids and zero-carbon frugal buildings, decarbonising public spaces and enabling smart mobility and digital tools. All these pillars revolve around an 'urban orchestrator’ - a public entity aggregating all components and services of a PCED - that helps implement long-lasting changes at district level beyond the length of the project. In ASCEND this connection is made even stronger, as each pillar of the PCED will be connected to the urban orchestrator through a federating digital platform and a 'human network' gathering all local stakeholders.
With active engagement and actions in two Lighthouse Cities - Lyon and Munich - and six Multiplier Cities - Alba Iulia, Charleroi, Budapest, Porto, Prague, and Stockholm - ASCEND covers a large diversity of districts such as city centres, urban outskirts, ageing residential areas, or industrial brownfields.
They all set out to build Positive Clean Energy Districts incorporating active citizenship, building smart energy grids and zero-carbon frugal buildings, decarbonising public spaces and enabling smart mobility and digital tools. All these pillars revolve around an 'urban orchestrator’ - a public entity aggregating all components and services of a PCED - that helps implement long-lasting changes at district level beyond the length of the project. In ASCEND this connection is made even stronger, as each pillar of the PCED will be connected to the urban orchestrator through a federating digital platform and a 'human network' gathering all local stakeholders.