From Tuesday 16 to Thursday 18 October, the 3rd IRIS Project General Council will be held.
IRIS (Integrated and Replicable Solutions for Co-Creation in Sustainable Cities), a European HORIZON 2020 project, brings together 43 European partners working on the theme of energy transition.
The IRIS project involves a five-year experiment in energy management through the implementation of innovative solutions in the fields of energy, transport and information and communication technologies in three major European smart cities: Nice Côte d'Azur, Utrecht in the Netherlands and Gothenburg in Sweden. The solutions developed will then be applied in four other cities: Vaasa in Finland, Alexandroupolis in Greece, Focsani in Romania and Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Spain.
In France, the partners involved in the project are :
- the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolitan Area
- players from the world of research and education: the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment, the Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis via the Institut Méditerranéen du Risque, de l'Environnement et du Développement Durable (IMREDD)
- major industrial and financial partners (EDF, ENEDIS, Veolia, Nexity),
- one of the Côte d'Azur's leading start-ups (Vulog)
- and Côte d'Azur Habitat.
Over the next five years, the Nice Côte d'Azur metropolitan area will be experimenting with energy management in three districts of the Plaine du Var Eco-Valley (Nice Méridia, Les Moulins, Grand Arénas) to optimise consumption: real-time management of building energy consumption, installation of electric vehicle charging points, new local renewable energy production methods (urban heating and cooling network using groundwater geothermal energy, heat recovery from wastewater networks, etc.), experimentation with a new generation of car-sharing vehicles, deployment of sensors, etc.…