HORIZON-EIC-2023-iCapitalPrize - The European Capital of Innovation Awards
EU Prizes: Application form (prizes) The European Capital of Innovation Awards: V1.0 – 08.03.2023
2. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Detailed description of the application
The texts should provide a clear overview of your city's excellence in relation to the objectives of the prize. Describe the application in detail, specifically addressing each of the award criteria set out in the Rules of Contest (see also below) Please, bear in mind there is no character limitation per box (criterion) but remember the overall limit of 30 pages. Please follow the instructions indicated above.
Award criterion 1, Experimenting – innovative concepts, processes, tools, and governance models proving the city's commitment to act as a test-bed for innovative practices, while ensuring the mainstreaming of these practices into the ordinary urban development process. In this criterion, among others, the applicant should consider answering these questions: Why are these initiatives and/or concepts perceived as new? In which sense are they different to others? What was the city’s role in these innovative concepts and/or models? What impact did they have in the city and ecosystem’ stakeholders?
INTRODUCTION: CORK’S CLIMATE MISSION
Cork is Ireland's second-largest and fastest-growing city. Cork City Council aims to provide an attractive, high-quality, resilient place in which to live, work, visit and do business. Cork City Council works under the strategic direction of a National Framework (2040) and a regional strategy along with the recently launched City Development plan 2022-2028. Our aim is to implement those strategies in a systematic manner, experimenting and trialing best practice and innovative models. Cork City Council is fully committed to the scaling and widespread rollout of initiatives and concepts which prove successful. Cork City Council recognises that undertaking extensive climate action must now be treated as the number one priority if those climate goals are to be fulfilled. Prioritisation of climate action will improve the quality of life for residents of the city and ensure that Cork City Council can play a role in addressing the most pressing global challenge of our time.
100 CLIMATE NEUTRAL AND SMART CITIES MISSION
I n April 2022, Cork City was selected to take part in the EU’s ‘Cities Mission’ initiative, becoming one of Europe’s 100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities. T his initiative aims to significantly accelerate the delivery of the European Green Deal’s goal of becoming a ‘net zero’ continent by 2050. Cork’s participation, led by Cork City Council but drawing together a city -wide coalition of stakeholders, including academia, industry, community groups and citizens, will be framed by devising and delivering a new model of local multi- level governance, the ‘Climate City Contract’ due to be finalized in 2024. The Climate City Contract will comprise of an Action Plan and associated investment strategy which will facilitate and future- proof Cork’s growth as a inclusive, sustainable, compact, healthy, liveable and attractive city – all co-benefits of consolidated climate action. In placing Cork towards the forefront of Eu rope’s most sustainably minded cities, the Mission will open up further valuable opportunities over the coming years. These will provide specific peer-to-peer connections and collaborations with other cities around issues of shared concern. As a Mission City, Cork will serve as a testbed for piloting specific new approaches and innovations to help us achieve our climate ambitions. This will in turn allow Cork to serve as an exemplar for other cities, across Ireland and Europe, to follow. In laying the groundwork towards the development of the Contract, work to date has centred on a combination of: • D eveloping a baseline analysis of Cork’s current emissions across the key emission domains of Housing, Industry, Public Services, Road transport, Commercial, Agriculture and Waste Handling and Treatment.
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Consolidating joint priority interests with local, national, and international stakeholders
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Preparing a climate risk assessment study.
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commissioning a large-scale household survey of attitudes and behaviors.
• Cork City Council organised a set of sectoral ‘Cork Climate Conversations’ to structure engagement with other public sector organisations, the business sector and community
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