MAKING-CITY will address and demonstrate advanced procedures and methodologies based on the Positive Energy District (PED) during 60 months. A PED is defined as “a district with annual net zero energy import and net zero carbon emissions, working towards an annual local surplus production of renewable energy” in the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan). MAKING-CITY project is considering a series of key sectors and applications which will ensure a long-term vision for energy transition. A structural shift from a system mainly based on finite energy sources such as fossil fuels, towards a system using more renewable energy sources is considered as energy transition. This significant change also leads to a better management of energy demand in addition to an increase of energy efficiency. Currently, city energy plans for energy transition are designed within a 2030 horizon, which can be considered as a mid-term strategy (part of the 2030 Climate & Energy Framework in Europe). Nevertheless, learning from the past to plan the future of cities for more than the next few years appears to be a real need. In MAKING-CITY, the City Vision 2050 is used as a longer timescale to address the urban energy system transformation towards low-carbon cities, bringing appropriate energy planning tools as well as reconsidering municipal organisation (creation of City Planning Offices for instance).

• Community-based initiative (i.e. citizens, cooperative, neighbourhood group)
• Non-profit organisation (i.e. pursues a particular social cause, e.g. schools, foundations, social movement)
• Social enterprise (i.e. for-profit company, but has primary objective to achieve social and/or ecological benefits)
• For-profit company

• Conducting research, pilot studies and/or living labs
• Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting
• Designing policies and/or (management) strategies
• Showcasing and/or demonstrating practices