"MAtchUP’s objective is to create and adopt solutions that can turn urban problems into smart opportunities to improve the citizens’ quality of life and boost the local economies. The final aim is to create a prosperous and more liveable urban environment for communities. MAtchUP approach is built on three main axes: Planning of sustainable urban transformation, which means to get rid of old and inefficient technologies to seize new efficient solutions in the energy, mobility and ICT fields Effective replication and upscaling of smart city solutions by ensuring the convergence of the demand and supply sides Implementation of these upscaling and replication plans to successfully reshape and repaint cities and their communities MAtchUP will deploy large scale demonstration projects in three Lighthouse cities, Valencia (Spain), Dresden (Germany) and Antalya (Turkey), and support the development of replication and upscaling plans in four Follower cities , Ostend (Belgium), Herzliya (Israel), Skopje (Republic of North Macedonia) and Kerava (Finland).

• 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
• Local government
• Regional government

• Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services
• Conducting research, pilot studies and/or living labs
• Designing policies and/or (management) strategies
• Showcasing and/or demonstrating practices