Last week we received a visit and met with representatives of the ICLEI Action Fund to discuss the implementation of the Climate Ready BCN project.
Exchange of experiences at the Smart City Expo
On Tuesday, November 7, members of the Climate-Ready BCN project participated in a knowledge exchange between ICLEI Action Fund 2.0 projects on the use of Artificial Intelligence-based technologies at the Smart City Expo World Congress.
Representatives from Ecoserveis , ABD , CIMNE and Barcelona City Council were present together with members of the DigiCityClimate project and the ICLEI Action Fund to discuss the challenges, learnings and successes in relation to the technology, data collection, data sources and AI-based methodologies planned and adopted to achieve the project objectives. The group shared the obstacles and challenges encountered so far in the development of the project and the possible solutions and learnings achieved from these challenges. In addition, there was time to exchange ideas and good practices between the two projects and ICLEI to share information and find ways of collaboration and mutual support.
Visit to the PAE
Thursday, November 9, focused on learning more about the situation in Barcelona regarding energy rights and the services provided within the Energy Advice Points (PAE) offered by the Barcelona City Council coordinated by Ecoserveis and ABD aimed at the population in a situation of vulnerability. ICLEI representatives visited the PAE coordination point and learned about the services they offer, how professionals organize attention to citizens and the needs that can be covered by updating the My Energy App. They also had the opportunity to attend a code-design session on the visual identity of the project and its adaptation to the My Energy App. The ICLEI team had the opportunity to learn first-hand about the attention provided to the Nou Barris PAE, one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Barcelona.
With this visit, the ICLEI team was able to learn more about the reality of Barcelona and the prevention and support actions for people affected by energy poverty and the capacities of the Climate Ready BCN project to help current services and improve the city’s actions to prevent and adapt to the effects of Climate Change.
