Special Session
Special Session on
EU-Funded Research for Smart Cities and Green ICT: Project Showcase -
EUFR
2026
18 - 19 May, 2026 - Benidorm, Spain
Within the 15th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - SMARTGREENS 2026
SCOPE
The transition towards smarter, greener, and more sustainable urban environments is increasingly driven by collaborative research and innovation efforts funded at the European level. This workshop provides a dedicated forum for EU-funded projects to present their work, share findings, and engage with the broader research and practitioner community gathered at SMARTGREENS 2026.
The workshop aims to bridge the gap between ongoing and recently completed EU research initiatives and the wider scientific and industrial audience attending the conference. It offers project consortia a unique opportunity to disseminate results, showcase prototypes and tools, and receive feedback from peers working across the intersecting fields of smart cities, green ICT, energy-aware systems, and sustainable infrastructure.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Smart city platforms, digital twins and urban data infrastructure
- Energy efficiency, demand response, and smart grid technologies
- Renewable energy integration and energy communities
- Green and sustainable computing, cloud, and edge systems
- Smart buildings, smart mobility, and connected infrastructure
- ICT-enabled sustainability monitoring and environmental sensing
- Citizen engagement, governance, and digital public services
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:
March 24, 2026
Authors Notification:
April 7, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
April 15, 2026
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Available soon.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.
PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library
CO-CHAIRS
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Sonja Klingert
University of Stuttgart
Germany
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Brief Bio
Sonja Klingert has been with the University of Stuttgart since 2022 as a senior researcher leading the working group on energy systems at the chair of distributed systems. She is part of the leading personnel of EU H2020 projects RENergetic and DECIDE. Prior to that she was a
researcher and project manager EU FP7 research projects FIT4Green, All4Green, and DC4Cities as well as the H2020 projects ELECTRIFIC. Before joining University of Mannheim, she was coordinator of the EU FP6 project GridEcon at the International University in Germany. Prior to this, she worked as a researcher for the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany. Her interests lie in demand response and corresponding metrics, in green business models, eco-aware contracts and energy communities as well as impact analysis. She has excellent experience in leading transdisciplinary working groups. Regarding roles in the scientific community, among others, she was chair of the international workshop series Energy Efficient Data Centres (E2DC) (2012-2016) and was part of the organization team of the international conference ACM e-Energy (2015-2016, 2021-2022). S. Klingert has a PhD in business economics from the University of Mannheim.
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Cornel Klein
Siemens AG
Germany
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Brief Bio
Cornel Klein is Research Program Manager within the Technology Field “Software and Systems Innovation” of Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich. He is current leading a corporate research program on validation and engineering of intelligent and autonomous systems. Starting his career 1998 at Siemens Public Networks, he held several leading and expert positions within the company and also represented Siemens in external partnerships like ITEA, ARTEMIS/ECSEL and SPES. He has gained an extensive knowledge in communications, cyber-physical and embedded systems, software- and systems engineering as well as in various application domains like automotive, mobility and smart cities/smart buildings. Cornel Klein holds a master and a PhD degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.
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Francesco Calise
University of Naples Federico II
Italy
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Brief Bio
Francesco Calise was born in 1978 and graduated cum laude in mechanical engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy in 2002. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Thermal Engineering in 2006. He is Full Professor of applied thermodynamics at the University of Naples Federico II. His research activity is mainly focused on the following topics: fuel cells, advanced optimization techniques, solar thermal systems, concentrating photovoltaic/thermal and photovoltaic systems, energy saving in buildings, solar heating and cooling, Organic Rankine Cycles, geothermal energy, dynamic simulations of energy systems, renewable polygeneration systems, hydrogen, district heating and cooling, power to x, smart grids and many others. He was invited lecturer for PhD courses and international conferences. He is a member of the scientific committees of several international Conferences and Chair of two international conferences. He teaches several courses of energy management and applied thermodynamics at the University of Naples Federico II for BsC, MS and PhD students. He was a supervisor of several Ph.D. degree theses. He is a reviewer of about 30 international Journals. He was involved, as researcher or principal investigator, in several Research Projects funded by EU and Italian Government. He is Member of the Editorial Board of several International Journals. His Scopus indexes (Oct 2022 are: Documents: 158; Citations: 5740; H-Index:46)
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