Fundación CARTIF is a leading Spanish Applied Research Centre in terms of R&D and technology transfer activities, created in 1994 formed up by some 150 researchers. CARTIF participation in international activities is promoted through the International Projects Department and has been materialised in the current participation in 47 on-going international projects, including 20 projects from H2020 (4 of them coordinated).
CARTIF coordinates the following three H2020 Smart Cities projects: mySMARTLife “Smart Transition of EU cities towards a new concept of smart Life and Economy” (mysmartlife.eu), REMOURBAN “REgenerationMOdel for accelerating the smart URBAN transformation” (www.remourban.eu)and URBAN GreenUP “New Strategy for Re-Naturing Cities through Nature-Based Solutions” (www.urbangreenup.eu). Also CARTIF takes part as a partner in the H2020 Projects SmartEnCity “Towards Smart Zero CO2 Cities across Europe” and MatchUP “Maximizing the Upscaling and replication potentialof high level urban transformation strategies”.
Other coordinated Smart Cities FP7 projects are: CITyFiED “RepliCable and InnovaTive Future Efficient Districts and cities” and R2CITIES “Renovation of Residential urban spaces: towards nearly zero energy CITIES”.
CARTIF is the Spanish National Liaison Point of the European E2BA (Energy Efficient Buildings Association). Additionally, CARTIF is one of the founding members and main promoters of the Smart City VyP initiative carried out in the Spanish cities of Valladolid and Palencia (www.smartcity-vyp.com).

Website
www.cartif.com

Contacts
Cecilia Sanz
cecsan@cartif.es