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HORIZON EUROPE

SpurUP

Sustainable Peri-Urban framework for Climate Neutral development

Consortium34 partners · 11 countries
RoleTechnical Partner — Digital Infrastructure
ProgrammeHORIZON EUROPE
Grant reference101239566

Our role

Technical Partner — Digital Infrastructure

We lead the scalable digital infrastructure behind SpurUP's Living Labs — multi-cloud integration, real-time data processing, secure authentication and automated CI/CD pipelines that let the project's technical solutions run and interoperate at scale. We also contribute to the stakeholder engagement, verification and financing tools.

Impact and outcomes

  • Targeting GHG emission reductions of 5–30% across the three Living Labs
  • Targeting 25% improved energy efficiency in industrial processes
  • Replication of solutions planned in Stara Zagora, Tulcea and Bristol
  • Scalable digital infrastructure deployment report due at month 16

The challenge

Peri-urban areas act as industrial buffers for cities, carrying high GHG emissions and pollution from often inefficient processes. Split across multiple jurisdictions, they suffer from fragmented governance and limited use of digital tools, and many lack the infrastructure and funding to act on climate.

Our approach

SpurUP establishes Local Green Deals that unite public and private actors, testing net-zero technologies and digital tools in three Living Labs — Thessaloniki, Aalborg and Jesi — before replicating them in Stara Zagora, Tulcea and Bristol. Our platform acts as the digital backbone, integrating the project's energy, industrial and governance solutions across Living Lab environments.