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FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013(ICT) Objective ICT-2013.6.2 Data Centres in an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly Internet DC4Cities An environmentally sustainable data centre for Smart Cities Project Nº 609304 Report on the 1st period of dissemination Responsible: UNI PASSAU Contributors: FREEMIND, HP, CN, UNI PASSAU, ENEA, UMA, INRIA, CSUC, GAS NATURAL, IMI Document Reference: D8.2 - Report on the 1st period of dissemination Level: PU Version: 3.0 Date: 28.08.2014
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FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013(ICT)

Objective ICT-2013.6.2

Data Centres in an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly Internet

DC4Cities An environmentally sustainable data centre for Smart Cities

Project Nº 609304

Report on the 1st period of dissemination

Responsible: UNI PASSAU

Contributors: FREEMIND, HP, CN, UNI PASSAU, ENEA, UMA, INRIA, CSUC, GAS NATURAL, IMI

Document Reference: D8.2 - Report on the 1st period of dissemination

Level: PU

Version: 3.0

Date: 28.08.2014

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This document contains the first report on dissemination activities of the project DC4Cities, explaining the dissemination activities of the first 12 months.

The consortium has achieved a wide variety of different dissemination activities. A highly visible workshop was organized, several publications were issued, and many internal and external presentations and talks were held to disseminate the project and its current insights. Furthermore, a poster and brochures were created and have been distributed, and a first press release has been issued, leading to several appearances in the news.

The first section of this deliverable includes an overview on different dissemination activities that are aimed at by the DC4Cities project. The second section describes the dissemination actions already done and ongoing dissemination in the first reporting period, classified by types. The third section outlines a general dissemination plan, some specifically planned dissemination actions, and describes a new dissemination reporting template.

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CONTRIBUTORS TABLE (All partners of DC4Cities have contributed to the dissemination activities; the following table refers to authors and reviewers of this deliverable)

Document Section Author’s Name(s) Reviewer(s)

I. Introduction ANDREAS BERL AND HERMANN

DE MEER (UNI PASSAU)

SONJA KLINGERT (UNIMA), FREDERICO LOMBART

BADAL (IMI), TERESA VIA

(CSUC), MARIA PEREZ

ORTEGA (FREEMIND)

II. Dissemination activities

ANDREAS BERL AND HERMANN

DE MEER (UNI PASSAU), TERESA VIA (CSUC), SONJA

KLINGERT (UNIMA)

SONJA KLINGERT (UNIMA), FREDERICO LOMBART

BADAL (IMI), TERESA VIA

(CSUC), MARIA PEREZ

ORTEGA (FREEMIND)

III. Dissemination planning

ANDREAS BERL AND HERMANN

DE MEER (UNI PASSAU), TERESA VIA (CSUC)

SONJA KLINGERT (UNIMA), FREDERICO LOMBART

BADAL (IMI), TERESA VIA

(CSUC), MARIA PEREZ

ORTEGA (FREEMIND)

IV. Conclusions ANDREAS BERL AND HERMANN

DE MEER (UNI PASSAU)

SONJA KLINGERT (UNIMA), FREDERICO LOMBART

BADAL (IMI), TERESA VIA

(CSUC), MARIA PEREZ

ORTEGA (FREEMIND)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 6

II. Dissemination activities ..................................................................................................... 7

II.1. Publications ................................................................................................................ 7

II.1.1. Journal papers ...................................................................................................... 7

II.1.2. Books ................................................................................................................... 7

II.1.3. Journal special issues .......................................................................................... 7

II.1.4. Workshop papers ................................................................................................. 7

II.1.5. Other publications ................................................................................................. 8

II.2. Talks/presentations ..................................................................................................... 8

II.3. Posters ....................................................................................................................... 8

II.4. Brochures ..................................................................................................................10

II.5. Social network activities .............................................................................................11

II.6. Web presence ............................................................................................................13

II.7. Workshops organization .............................................................................................15

II.8. Cooperation with other projects ..................................................................................15

II.9. Press releases ...........................................................................................................16

II.10. Other activities .........................................................................................................20

III. Dissemination planning ...................................................................................................21

III.1. General activity plan..................................................................................................21

III.2. Special activities .......................................................................................................21

III.2.1. Promotional videos .............................................................................................21

III.2.1. Social network activities ......................................................................................22

III.3. Template for dissemination reports ...........................................................................22

IV. Summary and outlook .....................................................................................................24

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TABLE OF FIGURES Figure 1: DC4Cities poster .................................................................................................... 9

Figure 2: Flyer page 1 - overview .........................................................................................10

Figure 3: Flyer page 2 – details ............................................................................................11

Figure 4: DC4Cities on Twitter (24. of July) ..........................................................................12

Figure 5: DC4Cities profile on Twitter ...................................................................................13

Figure 6: Web page ..............................................................................................................14

Figure 7: Workshop programme ...........................................................................................15

Figure 8: Press release template ..........................................................................................17

Figure 9: Newspaper, Trento, Italy ........................................................................................19

Figure 10: Dissemination plan ..............................................................................................21

Figure 11: Dissemination activity reporting ...........................................................................23

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I. INTRODUCTION

The project consortium has initiated a community of interest composed by stakeholders through conferences, meetings other standard dissemination channels at overall project level (e.g., website, workshop events and printed and electronic information material).

Dissemination activities are covered through contribution of all DC4Cities partners and collected and controlled by UNI PASSAU, the dissemination leader of the project. In a wide sense, the following targets are considered to be relevant to the project, and according to the current status of the work, they are already faced by the partners, as presented in Section II. The following list shows possible dissemination activities. However, it is not a list to be followed exclusively. It is open to any other kind of activities that may become interesting in the future.

Publications

Talks/presentations

Brochures

Posters

Social Network activities

Promotional videos

Demonstrations

Educational uses of DC4Cities

Experimental uses of DC4Cities

Web presence

Workshops organization

Cooperation with other projects

Press releases

The following sections will present already achieved and ongoing dissemination activities in Section II, and dissemination planning in Section III.

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II. DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

This section reports ongoing and already completed dissemination activities.

II.1. Publications

Publications are one of most scientifically relevant dissemination activities in DC4Cities. Already in this early stage of the project, two papers have been submitted to (or been accepted by) journals, a book has been published, a journal special issue will be published, and three workshop papers are accepted for publication.

II.1.1. Journal papers

Gergö Lovász and Hermann de Meer, Modeling Performance and Power Consumption of Utilization-Based DVFS, Energies: Special Issue on Green IT and IT for Smart Energy Savings, June 2014.The paper has been submitted, notification is pending.

Corentin Dupont, Fabien Hermenier, Thomas Schulze, Robert Basmadjian, Andrey Somov, Giovanni Giuliani, Plug4Green: A Flexible Energy-aware VM Manager to Fit Data Centre Particularities, Ad Hoc Networks: Special Issue on Energy-Aware Data Centres: Architecture, Infrastructure, and Communication, Elsevier B.V. Paper has been accepted.

II.1.2. Books

Sonja Klingert, Marta Chinnici, Mila Rey Porto “Energy-Efficient Data Centers - Third International Workshop” (E²DC 2014) proceedings, June 10th, Cambridge, UK, 2014; Springer LNCS. Accepted, publication in process.

II.1.3. Journal special issues

Ad Hoc Networks: Special Issue on Energy-Aware Data Centres: Architecture, Infrastructure, and Communication. A. Berl, S. Klingert, and X. Hesselbach (ed.), Elsevier B.V., will be published in 2014.

II.1.4. Workshop papers

Alfonso Capozzoli, Marta Chinnici, Marco Perino, Gianluca Serale, “Review on Performance Metrics for Energy Efficiency in Data Center: The Role of Thermal Management”, “Energy-Efficient Data Centers - Third International Workshop” (E²DC 2014), June 10th, Cambridge, UK, 2014; Springer LNCS. Accepted, publication in process.

Vincent Kherbache, Eric Madelaine, and Fabien Hermenier, Planning live-migrations to prepare servers for maintenance Books, 9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing, Porto, 2014. Accepted for publication.

Corentin Dupont, Building Application Profiles to Allow a Better Usage of the Renewable Energies in Data Centres, “Energy-Efficient Data Centers - Third

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International Workshop” (E²DC 2014), June 10th, Cambridge, UK, 2014; Springer LNCS. Accepted, publication in process.

II.1.5. Other publications

Corentin Dupont, Energy Aware Infrastructure for Green Cloud Data Centres, PhD proposal paper, University of Trento, 2014. Accepted.

A. Berl and H. De Meer. Intelligentes Stromnetz der Zukunft. Das Who is Who der Niederbayerischen Energiewirtschaft, pp. 90-91, Niederbayern-Forum e.V., March 2014.

II.2. Talks/presentations

This section lists official talks and presentations, where DC4Cities has been presented to an audience.

Marco Di Girolamo, DC4Cities, The Green Grid EMEA Forum 2013, Brussels, Oct 2013

Hermann de Meer, All4green and DC4Cities, Dagstuhl-Seminar Nr. 14031, Wadern, January 2014.

Hermann de Meer, All4green and DC4Cities, Smarter Europe Conference E-World 2014, Essen, February 2014.

Hermann de Meer, Demand Side Management, Wirtschaftsministerium Bayern, München, April 2014.

Silvio Migliori, Overview on computational activities in ENEA, Meeting “Inauguration of new CRESCO4 Computing Facility”, Portici (Naples), March 2014.

Hermann de Meer, Demand Side Management, Dagstuhl-Seminar Nr. 14081, Wadern, May 2014.

Jordi Guijarro, DC4Cities key project objectives, Charlas Relámpago (RedIRIS), XXXVII Grupos de Trabajo de RedIRIS, Madrid, June 2014

Giovanni Giuliani, DC4Cities, Datacentres Europe 2014, Monaco, May 2014

Invited Talk at Communication and Information Centre (kiz) University Ulm, July 2014.

Sonja Klingert, Shifting the Weight: Utilizing the Potential of Data Centres to Become a Part of the Solution, Invited Talk at Communication and Information Centre (kiz) University Ulm, July 2014.

Hermann de Meer, All4green and DC4Cities, Lakeside Research Days 2014, Klagenfurt, July 2014.

Hermann de Meer, Demand Side Management, Mitgliederversammlung im IT-Speicher, Regensburg, July 2014.

Frederic Wauters, Energis as data centre modelling tool and DC4Cities, Belgacom Data Centre and Energy Management teams, Brussels, July 2014.

II.3. Posters

A poster is already available. The poster shows the highlights of the project in a simple and schematic way. The main objectives and methods are shown as well as the partners and further references on the poster. The poster has been presented at the E^2DC 2014 Workshop (3rd International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centres) in Cambridge, UK

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on June 10th, 2014. Additionally, it is used to present an overview on the project for internal presentations by DC4Cities partners.

Figure 1: DC4Cities poster

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II.4. Brochures

A brochure is available, and includes an overview of the project (concepts, challenges, partners, keywords and action plan). The brochure was distributed at the E^2DC 2014 Workshop (3rd International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centres) in Cambridge, UK on June 10th, 2014 and it was distributed at the co-located conference ACM e-Energy 2014, the 5th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), in Cambridge, UK, June 2014. Additionally, the brochure was distributed at the HP internal event “HP4Green” in June 2014 (see Section II.11).

Figure 2: Flyer page 1 - overview

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Figure 3: Flyer page 2 – details

II.5. Social network activities

DC4Cities has already generated some activity on Twitter, where different profiles have created awareness of the project. These tweets were sent by project partners, but also by some media specialized in green topics or companies and people related to green or IT activities. The most commented information on Twitter was the launching of the project through a press release that helped to spread the information.

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Figure 4: DC4Cities on Twitter (24. of July)

Apart from the tweets done by project partners or other people, a Twitter profile (@DC4Cities) has been created to be a central point for users willing to know more about DC4Cities and its activity.

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Figure 5: DC4Cities profile on Twitter

II.6. Web presence

The web site http://www.dc4cities.eu has been established starting from the beginning of the project. It provides internal support and project visibility to others. It gives an overview on the project, names the partners, shows current events and gives an overview on the current status of the project.

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Figure 6: Web page

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II.7. Workshops organization

E^2DC 2014 Workshop organization, held in Cambridge, UK on June 10th, 2014.

3rd International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centres.

Co-located with the ACM e-Energy 2014, the 5th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), in Cambridge, UK, June 2014.

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/eenergy/2014/

Workshop Chairs:

Sonja Klingert, University of Mannheim, Germany

Marta Chinnici, ENEA, Italy

Milagros Rey Porto, Gas Natural, Spain

The participation met all expectations, involving discussions from 30 experts in the field from Europe and Oversea. The proceedings of the workshop are currently under publication in the Springer LNCS series continuing the past two E^2DC workshops.

Figure 7: Workshop programme

II.8. Cooperation with other projects

This section describes cooperation with other projects, in extension to Section II (Cluster Activities) of Deliverable 7.1. There, projects with similar goals as DC4Cities are referenced: RenewIT, GreenDataNet, GENiC, GEYSER, Dolfin, CoolEmAll and All4Green.

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There is a special relation of the DC4cities project with its two preceding projects Fit4Green and All4Green. Fit4Green provided input into DC4Cities in terms of resource usage optimization and energy savings in data centres. DC4Cities is capitalizing on the results of All4Green in terms of adaptive resource consumption in data centres. Green SLAs, for instance, are enablers to get higher flexibility in controlling load and power consumption of data centres.

On top of these cooperation activities, currently contact is established between DC4Cities and 40 different real world smart cities. Based on the study “Mapping Smart Cities in the EU” (Directorate-general for internal policies – policy department A: economic and scientific policy, 2014), we have gathered mail addresses of 40 cities with smartness level of 3 or 4. An email was sent to ask for cooperation in terms of data exchange. The following data has been requested by each smart city:

Number of public data centres in your city (or # of data centres where public data are being processed)

Their maximum power requirement in 2012

Their energy consumption in 2012

Their overall cost (differentiation in fixed and variable not necessary, a rough estimate would be sufficient)

Their energy cost

II.9. Press releases

After the project had started for three months, each of the partners had released a press release in his local language to the local press. The Catalan partners (Gas Natural, IMI and CSUC) worked together to send a common press release both in Catalan and in Spanish, highlighting their participation together.

The following figure illustrates the template for the press release from the perspective of UNI PASSAU in English. This press release template had also been translated to German and been issued to the local press.

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Figure 8: Press release template

In response to this press release, DC4Cities was referenced in news all over the world. The following list is a non-exhaustive list of appearances of DC4Cities in the news:

http://www.computing.es/infraestructuras/noticias/1071713001801/dc4cities-desarrollara-plan-piloto.1.html

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http://www.datacenterdynamics.es/focus/archive/2013/10/dc4cities-impulsa-los-data-centers-sostenibles-para-las-smart-cities

http://enginyeriainformatica.cat/?p=10936

http://www.tyncontact.com/373565-DC4Cities-optimiza-los-Data-Centers-para-las-Smart-Cities-.note.aspx

http://www.energias-renovables.com/articulo/barcelona-empleara-centros-de-datos-para-incrementar-20131230

http://www.croem.es/Web20/CROEMMedioAmbiente.nsf/xPage.xsp?documentId=BE40C2D494F2233FC1257C51004477B8&action=OpenDocument&SessionID=DODCO2Z15S

http://datacentercpd.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/barcelona-used-to-increase-data-center-energy-efficiency/#more-80

http://www.compromisorse.com/acciones-rse/2013/12/30/el-proyecto-europeo-dc4cities-desarrollara-un-plan-piloto-con-centros-de-datos-sostenibles/

http://www.uni-online.de/presse.php?id=571023

http://www.uni-online.de/presse.php?id=571028

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/informationstechnologie/universitaet_passau_erforscht_oekologisch_225442.html

http://www.openbroadcast.de/article/328710/university-of-passau-researches-environmentally-sustainable-data-centres-for-smart-cities.html

http://www.openbroadcast.de/article/328712/universitaet-passau-erforscht-oekologisch-nachhaltige-rechenzentren-fuer-smart-cities.htm

http://www.newsroom.de/news/pressrelations_detail/3_555697/

http://www.newsroom.de/news/pressrelations_detail/3_555700/

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/veranstaltungen/internationale_konferenz_wissenschaft_2_0_225430.html

http://www.juraforum.de/wissenschaft/universitaet-passau-erforscht-oekologisch-nachhaltige-rechenzentren-fuer-smart-cities-466947

http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/272055/

http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/272057/

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news571028

http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/75166.htm

http://www.egovernment-computing.de/standards/articles/433480/

The following figure shows an example of a print newspaper in Trento (Italy) that reports on DC4Cities.

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Figure 9: Newspaper, Trento, Italy

Some of the partners are also posting DC4Cities news on their corporate websites, e.g.:

http://www.csuc.cat/sites/default/files/docs/npdc4cities_en.pdf

http://www.freemind-group.com/phocadownload/Press/PressRelease-Project_launch_DC4Cities.pdf

http://www.csuc.cat/en/new/dc4cities-an-environmentally-sustainable-data-centers-for-smart-cities

http://www.csuc.cat/ca/novetat/celebrat-el-workshop-tecnic-del-projecte-europeu-dc4cities

http://blog.csuc.cat/?p=1257

http://progettiue.enea.it/dett_pdf.asp?id=909

http://uttp.enea.it/index.asp?p=76&t=DC4CITIES

http://www.uni-passau.de/bereiche/presse/pressemeldungen/meldung/detail/universitaet-passau-erforscht-oekologisch-nachhaltige-rechenzentren-fuer-smart-cities

http://premsa.bcn.cat/2014/02/13/el-projecte-europeu-dc4cities-desenvolupara-un-pla-pilot-amb-centres-de-dades-sostenibles-a-barcelona/

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II.10. Other activities

This section lists dissemination activities where the DC4Cities has been introduced to companies, academic partners, or politics in internal partner events.

Internal IMI dissemination (January 2014): Xavier Ollé and Fede Lombart, Project DC4Cities, Innovation Day, Barcelona: DC4cities has been presented at the Day of Innovation organized by IMI Innovation Management.

Internal UNI PASSAU dissemination (January 2014): Hermann De Meer, Andreas Berl, Niedermeier Florian, DC4Cities, Passau. DC4Cities was presented and discussed with Prof. Anne Koziolek, Institute of Technology Karlsruhe (Germany).

Internal UNI PASSAU dissemination (January 2014): Hermann De Meer, Andreas Berl, Niedermeier Florian, DC4Cities, Passau. DC4Cities was presented and discussed with Prof. Haverkort Boudewijn and Björn Postema, Twente University (Netherlands).

Internal UNI PASSAU dissemination (February 2014): Hermann De Meer, Andreas Berl, Niedermeier Florian, DC4Cities, Passau. DC4Cities was presented and discussed with Michael Schumacher, APC Schneider Electrics (Germany).

Internal UNI PASSAU dissemination (February 2014): Hermann De Meer, Andreas Berl, Gergö Lovasz, Niedermeier Florian, Possible cooperations concerning renewable energies in the context of DC4Cities, Passau. DC4Cities was presented and discussed with Mr. Ranzinger, Landratsamt Passau (Germany).

Internal UNI PASSAU dissemination (May 2014): Hermann De Meer, DC4Cities was discussed at the BBH, Modellregion Niederbayern, Schaufenster Intelligente Energie – Sonne in Munich (Germany).

Internal UNI PASSAU dissemination (May 2014): Hermann De Meer, DC4Cities was discussed with Thyga AG, Strommmarkt 2.0, in Munich (Germany).

Internal Freemind dissemination (May 2014): Frederic Wauters, María Pérez Ortega, Nicolas Gueuning. DC4Cities cake session introducing the project to all the company colleagues. Launching of activities with Freemind sales force for customers’ awareness.

Internal HP dissemination (June 2014): Giovanni Giuliani, Paolo Barone, and Marco Di Girolamo, DC4Cities and solar powered datacentres, HP4Green event, Milan: Kick-off event of the solar powered datacentre used for DC4Cities solar experiment, and contextual presentation of DC4Cities to the whole HP Italy workforce.

Internal UNI PASSAU dissemination (June 2014): Hermann De Meer, Andreas Berl, Gergö Lovasz, Niedermeier Florian, DC4Cities, Passau. DC4Cities was presented and discussed with Prof. S. Keshav, Unviersity of Waterloo (Canada).

Internal UNI PASSAU dissemination (August 2014): Hermann De Meer, Gergö Lovasz, DC4Cities, Passau. DC4Cities was presented and discussed with Mr. Huber and Mr. Lichy, Deutsche Energie Funk GmbH (Germany).

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III. DISSEMINATION PLANNING

This section shows a general activity plan for the next two project years, discusses some special activities that will be focused on in the future of the project, and illustrates the template that will be used for dissemination planning and reporting in the next two years.

III.1. General activity plan

This activity plan lists some main dissemination activities and shows the focus of the project with respect to these activities.

Figure 10: Dissemination plan

It can be observed in Figure 10 that the project consortium plans to extend efforts on publication, social network activities, educational uses, experimental uses, web presence, and promotional videos during the following two years. Brochures and posters, however, have rather been used to introduce the new project to the community.

III.2. Special activities

This section discusses two special activities that are planned for dissemination within the next two years: promotional videos and social network activities.

III.2.1. Promotional videos

In the two preceding projects FIT4Green and All4Green, three internal promotional videos had been released and are available on YouTube.

The video "Fit4Green Elevator Pitch" (3 min.) is available under the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkPnbrcwLSI

The video "All4Green Airport Pitch" (3 min.) is available under the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJCRR6DMErI

The video “All4Green Conference Pitch” (9 min) is available under the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhRxULgOSig

Dissemination activities Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Legend

Publications Little activity

Talks/presentations Medium activity

Brochures High activity

Posters

Social network activities

Educational uses of DC4Cities

Experimental uses of DC4Cities

Web presence

Workshops organization

Cooperation with other projects

Promotional video (internal)

Promotional video (external)

Press releases

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Similar to these three promotional videos, also DC4Cities plans to release an overview on the project in the form of a video.

Additionally, the preceding project All4Green had an external promotional video produced by Euronews that has proven very useful in spreading the awareness of new concepts in energy saving. Currently we are trying to approach Euronews in order to produce a similar video in the context of the DC4cities project. The Euronews video “Euronews innovation - Plug-in savings” (3 min) is available under the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh6cx286SJ8

III.2.1. Social network activities

Future social network activities will focus on Twitter and LinkedIn, because both are a good loudspeaker to reach the professional public. While Twitter may help DC4Cities to spread immediate messages and to increase awareness of the project, LinkedIn social network would provide in deep information and would help to generate debate about several topics.

Once DC4Cities has reached its first results, communication activities on social networks will increase but, until then, it’s planned to inform on the project itself and related activities, as well as to get stakeholders and users to stay tuned to the project through Twitter and LinkedIn.

III.3. Template for dissemination reports

A spreadsheet to be used as a template will help partners to share within the project both their planned and performed communication activities. With this information, internally reported at least once a month, the communication team will be able to plan supporting activities such as website update, social networks campaigns, etc, to increase awareness of all planned and done activities related to DC4Cities.

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Figure 11: Dissemination activity reporting

This internal communication template will also allow for every partner to know which activities are due to be done by the others and so to join them as well as reinforce communication activities.

Partner: Select partner

Identify yourself

from the drop-

down menu.

Performed dissemination activities.

1. Press Releases

Date Title URL

2. Affiliate marketing

Date Title URL

3. Organization of events

Date Event Title Location Aim of the event Type of audience Dissemination level Select from the drop-down menu. Apart from the title, please attach the URL if it is

availab le.

Select from the drop-down

menu.

List the most relevant dissemination activities that you or your subcontractors have carried out during this period of time. Please fill in the tab les that correspond to your activity for the current reporting period.

Please write down every press release submitted by you. Add or delete files depending on your activity. Date will follow the international format , YYYY-MM-DD.

Please fill one form for each event (presentation, workshop, seminar, project presentation, press conference, etc.) that you organized. Please do not repeat here any event that you already reported in the previous sections .

Report the links, news, articles ot other references that you published in your official language or in English regarding the project or your portal on your website or on your social networks profiles. Add or delete files depending on your activity. Date

will follow the international format , YYYY-MM-DD.

Performed Dissemination Activity

Activity Reporting

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IV. SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK

This deliverable gave an overview on achieved and ongoing dissemination activities and presented a plan for future activities.

The project consortium plans to intensify the efforts on publication, educational uses, experimental uses, and web presence, in the following two years. In addition, a special focus will be set at being active in social networks and in creating internal and external promotional videos for the project.

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