CINEA at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2025

Smart City Expo World Congress (Barcelona, 4-6 November) is the world’s biggest and most influential event for cities and urban innovation. The event is a premier venue where a diverse community of industry executives, government leaders, researchers, urban pioneers and entrepreneurs gathers annually to address complex issues to move cities toward a brighter future. This year’s event will welcome over 25,000 professional visitors from more than 130 countries around the globe, 1,100+ exhibitors, 600+ speakers, and representatives from 850+ cities.

CINEA will be at the European Commission's EU for resilient green cities Hall 2, Stand D101 featuring several LIFE Programme, Horizon Energy, Horizon Transport and EMFAF projects:

• LIFE POWER UP: The catalyst for social innovation in the energy market
• Horizon COOLTORISE: Raising summer energy poverty awareness to reduce cooling needs
• LIFE COMANAGE: Paving the road to success with energy communities
• LIFE ENCOM Hub: Let's connect to create an energy community
• LIFE Plan4COLD: Supporting South Europe municipalities in the definition of Sustainable Local Heating and Cooling Plans
• LIFE ESCALATE: Speeding up Europe’s shift to clean renewable energy by helping cities across the EU plan for more energy efficient heating and cooling
• LIFE GENERA: Empowering island authorities and communities to co-create practical roadmaps for the energy transition, driving collaboration, action, and shared progress
• Horizon V2Market: Connecting electric vehicles to energy markets
• EMFAF Blue ports: Strengthening the skills and competencies of the human capital within the port ecosystem, to drive the sector’s green transition
• LIFE GreenMe5: Aiming to facilitate the implementation of the Green City Deal in five European municipalities
• LIFE Bauhausing Europe: Beautiful, sustainable, together: validation of the New European Bauhaus approach for the reimagination of public buildings as boosting projects for the transformation of their neighbourhoods
• LIFE SeedNEB: Beautifying cities through nature: implementation of a national biodiversity-friendly framework framed by the New European Bauhaus in 3 pilot neighborhoods in Spain, Italy and Hungary
• Big4LIFE: Towards the New European Bauhaus by advancing the lifespan of Building-Integrated Greenery Systems
• Horizon URBREATH: Tackling climate change with digital twins and AI technologies
• EMFAF GREEN MARINE MED: Uniting the full Mediterranean maritime value chain to accelerate green shipping innovation, empower entrepreneurs, and build a lasting network for sustainable transformation across the region.
• Horizon CELINE: Cross-sectorial integrated digital services enabling energy localized innovation and community empowerment