Apply Now for Open2Horizon Innovation Challenge on Carbon Footprint

Deadline: 25 October 2024

Dijon Métropole is launching an open innovation challenge to realise its ambitions for citizen involvement in supporting the region’s environmental transition.

As part of the European RESPONSE project, the partners are developing a sustainable and intelligent city demonstrator in Dijon (France) and Turku (Finland). This innovative approach has already transformed the Fontaine d’Ouche district into a positive-energy district. Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, RESPONSE is a 60-month project (1st October 2020 to 30th September 2025) that aims to establish a strategic vision for Smart Cities Energy Transition: Climateneutral cities by 2050.

Open2Horizon: the RESPONSE project’s innovation challenge offers you the opportunity to support Dijon Métropole in its carbon neutrality strategy and get the city’s residents involved in reducing CO2 emissions.

Today, several tools enable everyone to assess their individual carbon footprint and, in some cases, to obtain a more detailed analysis of the main determinants of its impact and possible avenues for improvement (e.g. ADEME’s Nos Gestes Climat, the WWF’s carbon footprint calculator, the food footprint calculator). However, Dijon Métropole does not currently have a tool that would enable a city to consolidate these individual assessments in order to evaluate the impact of the daily actions of its population on the area’s carbon footprint.

The challenge for all companies wishing to innovate for the energy and climate transition of European cities is therefore the following: How can they enable residents to understand the impact of their day-to-day actions on the local carbon footprint and commit them to collective targets for reducing emissions?

Aim

With this challenge, Dijon Métropole hopes to have a tool that will enable it to:
- better evaluate the real emissions of the territory;
- value individual efforts with respect to the collective objectives of reducing the territory’s carbon emissions;
- create a community dynamic around these objectives.
The solution developed would therefore aim to meet the following needs:
- Offer residents a simple carbon footprint calculator that relies on proven methodologies and data available to the community and its partners;
- Provide participating residents with a visualization of their impact on the territory’s emissions, their areas for improvement, and their contribution over time to the collective objectives through changes in their behaviour;
- Allow the community to integrate the emissions of its inhabitants in the evaluation of the territory’s carbon emissions. This component could be based on extrapolations from the data collected from the participating residents;
- Feed data into community dashboards to determine the areas of collective progress and to use this information to adjust its public policies in favour of reducing the territory’s carbon emissions (transportation, food, energy, etc.)
- Communicate with residents to encourage them to commit to reducing the territory’s carbon footprint;
- Be able to interface with other citizen participation tools deployed by the community
- In a second phase, this tool should be able to integrate information about the carbon footprint of the main companies in the territory (this second phase is not included in this challenge).

Benefits

In addition, the winning company will benefit from:
- access to exclusive data sets
- a €25,000 prize to develop and test the solution.
The prize will be paid in three instalments:
- 10 000€ at the beginning of the prototyping phase
- 10 000€ at the beginning of the experimentation phase (a prototype will be provided: a video presentation or a slideshow presentation of the prototype to grant the payment)
- 5 000€ at the end of the experimentation phase (the demonstrator with its documentation will be provided as deliverable to grant the payment)
communication about the programme

Eligibility Criteria