Do you want to accelerate your project idea? Are you exploring options to make your city or town climate-neutral and truly smart?

Join the Smart Cities Marketplace on March 21 for this year's spring online matchmaking event, where the programme will cover a variety of investment and financing topics for Smart City projects.

ICLEI is hosting a session on accelerating city-business cooperation through public procurement in smart and sustainable investment projects.

Cities are facing the new energy market reality and remain crucial to speed up the deployment of renewable energies and improve energy efficiency. However, they often lack the right technical and financial capacity to take advantage of all opportunities available.

The Smart Cities Marketplace (SCM) provides essential assistance and is an ideal platform to accelerate the implementation of the REPowerEU plan and support cities and small and medium-sized municipalities on their journey towards a clean energy transition.

The SCM matchmaking process facilitates and supports the development, financing, uptake, and upscaling of proven solutions in the areas of clean energy, sustainable mobility and ICT to help communities, towns and cities accelerate the transition towards climate neutrality.

The SCM matchmaking focuses on knowledge sharing, capacity building, providing guidance and practical advice with the support of its community and its expanding Investor Network. The matchmaking includes several ICLEI supported activities such as 1-to-1-consultancy deployed locally by the Consortium's legal, financial, technical and governance experts, peer-to-peer exchanges, “Deal” meetings with investors, Financing Masterclasses, Matchmaking webinars and Matchmaking online info days, as well as Matchmaking events.

Please register here.