Smarter Together Munich
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In Neuaubing-Westkreuz, the EU 'Smarter Together' project (2016–2021) combined building refurbishment, eight mobility stations, smart lampposts and a data platform. Munich was one of three lighthouse cities alongside Lyon and Vienna; EU funding ended in 2021, but the infrastructure remains in use.
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The figures published for the district are estimates rather than measurements. The European Commission's page for the Munich site puts the expected savings at 2,785 MWh of primary energy and 971 tonnes of CO2 a year, and still notes that detailed technical and financial performance 'will be available at a later stage'. The city records about EUR 20 million invested by the project's end in 2021 in a district of roughly 30,000 residents, and describes refurbishing 42,000 m² of housing to a demanding energy standard as the plan. What is recorded as delivered: eight multimodal mobility stations, live by the end of 2018.
🎓 Lesson
Years after the project closed, the European Commission's page for it still carries the savings as estimates and still promises that detailed performance data will follow at a later stage. Nobody appears to have gone back to measure. Meanwhile the project's own website lapsed and now sells real estate, so the surviving public record of a demonstrator that drew around EUR 20 million into one district is a page maintained by the city that hosted it. The hardware outlasted both — eight mobility stations, smart lampposts, a data platform — which is a real result, and not the one the funding was reported against.
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the EU 'Smarter Together' project (2016–2021) combined building refurbishment, eight mobility stations, smart lampposts and a data platform
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Munich was one of three lighthouse cities alongside Lyon and Vienna; EU funding ended in 2021, but the infrastructure remains in use
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The European Commission's page for the Munich site puts the expected savings at 2,785 MWh of primary energy and 971 tonnes of CO2 a year, and still notes that detailed technical and financial performance 'will be available at a later stage'
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The city records about EUR 20 million invested by the project's end in 2021 in a district of roughly 30,000 residents, and describes refurbishing 42,000 m² of housing to a demanding energy standard as the plan
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What is recorded as delivered: eight multimodal mobility stations, live by the end of 2018
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the project's own website lapsed and now sells real estate
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Landeshauptstadt München (City of Munich)
- Actor types
- city-government
- Funding model
- grant
- Funding description
- EU Horizon 2020
- Cost
- ≈€20M invested in the district by the City of Munich and partners, of which €6.85M EU funding (Horizon 2020 grant 691876)
- Ownership
- Not recorded
- Decision rights
- Not recorded
- Exit conditions
- Not recorded
4 source dossiers
City of Munich — Smarter Together (authority)
- Stable source ID
src-1e7b08d01ec8938a- Publisher
- Name not classified · stadt.muenchen.de
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
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- Not recorded
- Updated
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- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-27
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
The City of Munich's own project page (it replaces the lapsed smarter-together.eu, which is now a real-estate site). Source for the district and its scale — Neuaubing-Westkreuz/Freiham, about 30,000 residents, around EUR 20 million invested by the project's end in 2021 — and for what was delivered against what was planned: eight multimodal mobility stations went live by the end of 2018, while raising 42,000 m² of housing to a demanding energy standard is described as what was planned ('Es war geplant, 42.000 Quadratmeter Wohnfläche auf einen anspruchsvollen Energiestandard zu heben'). The page states no publication date.
European Commission Smart Cities Marketplace (authority)
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src-20e9e83edba37791- Publisher
- Name not classified · smart-cities-marketplace.ec.europa.eu
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- web-page · language not classified
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-27
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- 2026-08-27
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
The European Commission's page for the Munich demonstration site, and the origin of the headline savings — stated as expectations, not results: 'The estimated savings amount to 2785 MWh of primary energy per year and an annual reduction of 971 tonnes of CO2', under a footnote reading 'Detailed information regarding the technical and financial performance will be available at a later stage'. Also gives the funding split: EUR 20 million from the city, EUR 6.85 million from the EU. The page states no publication date.
CORDIS — SMARTER TOGETHER fact sheet (authority)
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src-c8b8cc5388ff58fe- Publisher
- Name not classified · cordis.europa.eu
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- web-page · language not classified
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- No source-level check date
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- 2026-08-27
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- 2026-08-27
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Official EU project record: H2020 grant 691876, ran Feb 2016 – Jan 2021, lighthouse cities Munich/Lyon/Vienna. A standing project record: the fact sheet carries no publication date. The dates it shows are the project start and end.
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Energy Cities (research)
- Stable source ID
src-c91fccacad0b7c88- Publisher
- Name not classified · energy-cities.eu
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2020-02-21
- Updated
- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-27
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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Independent write-up of the Munich smart-city measures.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smarter Together Munich” — Munich, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/munich-smarter-together/ (last verified 2026-08-27). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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