Specifications for the access to the Solutions Catalogue within the Knowledge Repository: Deliverable D10.4

The technical solutions and services of WP10 will be available through the Knowledge Repository access, embedded in the NZC Portal, and will be available to any interested cities and individuals in an open source, flexible and adaptive way (referring to Service Level 1 – SL1). Additional functionalities regarding, for example, specific consultation, capability and capacity request, advisor and expert support, etc., will be offered to Mission Cities (Service Level 2 – SL2) and Pilot Cities (Service Level 3 – SL3) through specific modules of the platform, which access channels and pathways are still in progress and under discussion. This deliverable D.10.4 is related to Task 10.3 Expert services for deploying climate neutral city actions, and it is dedicated to present the Specifications for the Knowledge Repository, that although will cover more content coming from other WPs (6,7,8,9), it will be here focused on the access to the Catalogue of Solutions developed in WP10. In sum, this report aims at defining the requirements of WP10 to structure the access – through the One-Stop-Shop Platform – to the R&I climate neutral solutions and services, that will be available for cities in the Knowledge Repository module of the NZC Portal.
The Knowledge Repository will be nourished through a collaborative work between NZC and other initiatives, that will gather a framework of state-of-the-art solutions towards climate neutral cities. Besides, different workstreams in NZC will also contribute to the Knowledge Repository development and provision of content, that will be open access and flexible enough to allow continuously updating. Transversal discussions are planned to happen cross-WP, and results regarding the final specifications on the content to be provided, accessibility, available functionalities, among others, will be defined and included in further NZC deliverables. The use cases presented in this report indicate the access roadmap to facilitate the search of services and solutions included in the Knowledge Repository, that will return not only a concrete list of individual solutions per se, but also present them in bundle of solutions that, through a smart tagging system, will interconnect them with other related ones (connecting them by means of co-benefits, keywords, barriers, thematic areas, etc.). The presentation of results as bundled solutions and services may contribute to their potential implementation under a systemic approach towards the transition to being a net-zero city. The content of this report is focused on developing the accessibility specifications exclusively for SL1 (all cities), while SL2 (Mission Cities) and SL3 (Pilot Cities) access to the specified content and support will be detailed in the following deliverable (D.10.5).