The Urban GreenUp Project is one of the three large scale projects financed by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 “Nature Based Solutions” program. This Nature Based Solutions project will last 5 years and investments will be made in areas such as enhancing biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, water management in 3 different cities of 3 different countries; Valladolid-Spain, Liverpool-England and Izmir-Turkey. Demir Energy is one of the 25 project partners and has the project coordinator position for Turkey. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, Ege University, İzmir Institute of Technology and Bitnet ICT Services are the other Turkish partners in the project. 

The CITyFIED project aims to ensure alignment of European cities and urban ecosystems with the smart cities of the future; It aims to develop replicable, systematic and integrated strategies. This project focuses on the development and implementation of innovative technologies and methodologies that will connect building retrofitting, smart grid and district heating networks, ICT and transport, as well as the reduction of energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions and the use of renewable energy sources.

REMOURBAN is a project financed by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program and will last 5 years (2015-2020). The main objectives of the REMOURBAN Project can be summarized as; to identify innovative solutions and designs by combining the applications of energy, transportation and information and communication technologies in a single point, to implement and disseminate the urban transformation model in the districts and cities, to increase the quality of life of urban life, to provide social acceptance and environmental sustainability, to understand and implement innovative business models for urban regeneration.

MAtchUP is a EU-funded Smart City project involving three lighthouse cities and four follower cities. MAtchUP cities will join forces to reshape their social, economic and environmental models and to promote social inclusion, liveability and prosperity for their citizens. MAtchUP will design and implement a palette of innovative solutions in the energy, mobility and ICT sectors that will serve as a model of urban transformation for other cities in Europe and beyond.

There are three lead cities (called Smart City ‘Lighthouses’), which include San Sebastian in Spain, Florence in Italy and Bristol in Great Britain. There are also a number of other ‘follower’ cities that will look into replicating interventions in their cities including Essen (Germany), Nilüfer (Turkey) and Lausanne (Switzerland). In addition to this, there are also a number of ‘observer’ cities, such as, Guangzhou (China) and Bogota (Colombia), as well as international networks who will take part in learning and dissemination of results. The project has a Consortium that consists of 38 partners.

RURITAGE establishes a new heritage-led rural regeneration paradigm able to transform rural areas in sustainable development demonstration „laboratories‟, through the enhancement of their unique Cultural and Natural Heritage potential.

MAKING-CITY, the new large-scale demonstration project funded by Horizon 2020 EU’s research and innovation programme, holds its kick-off meeting on 13th– 14th December in Valladolid, Spain. Gathering 34 partners coming from 9 countries, this 60-month H2020 project with a budget of 20 million euros aims to address and demonstrate the urban energy system transformation towards low carbon cities following the Positive Energy District (PED) concept.

FUSILLI is a Food and Natural Resources project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No.101000717. Over a duration of four years, FUSILLI will focus on supporting cities to facilitate their transition towards more sustainable food systems, in line with the FOOD2030 priorities. To achieve this goal, FUSILLI project combines the expertise of 34 partners from 13 countries, including cities, universities, SMEs, NGOs, and industries.
The core ambition of FUSILLI is to overcome barriers for developing and implementing integrated, systemic food policies that support the transition towards sustainable food systems in urban, peri-urban and nearby rural areas. To achieve this goal, FUSILLI puts 12 cities in a knowledge sharing and learning network to address the challenges of the food system transformation: Tampere, Oslo, Kolding, Kharkiv, Nilufer – Bursa, Athens, Rome, Rijeka, Turin, Differdange, San Sebastian, Castelo Branco.

Wellbased aims to design, implement and evaluate a comprehensive urban program to reduce energy poverty and its effects on citizens' health and wellbeing, built on evidence-based approaches, easily adaptable and transferable to different cities. Wellbased develops policy recommendations to reduce energy poverty in cities and keeping sustainable high levels of urban health and quality of life.

The Eyes Hearts Hands (EHHUR) project guides urban transformation by taking into account local heritage and social context. It actively engages and assists residents in their nearby green transition.