In CARE 2050, the innovations will be tested and developed in three different pilot projects located in The Netherlands and Germany. The pilots have been selected because each of them is in another stage of the development process, showing different challenges and aspects that impact decision making about sustainability choices. With their different stages in the development process, the three pilot locations provide the opportunity to test the impact of measures in one pilot and reuse or improve learnings from each other and apply or test it again in another pilot.
The CARE 2050 pilots will not just be our living labs, the testing grounds for the project, but also the most visible concretization of CARE 2050 for interaction of the project with the outside world. They will be important resources for the positioning of CARE 2050 as a lighthouse project to engage, to educate, exchange know how and receive valuable feedback for further improving our results.
To promote broad market adoption, we will actively involve the market in the development of CARE 2050 innovations. With the pilot sites, we want to inspire governments, owners and initiators and invite third party developers and providers of additional products, architecture and methodologies to engage with their initiatives and help create a federal CARE 2050-system. Dissemination of knowledge will familiarize future users and the market and can provide valuable feedback. CARE 2050 will develop a business model to scale the Methodologies, Bookshelf and Architecture in Europe, so that the energy transition and CO2 reduction of the built environment can be carried out with a higher efficiency. In this way, CARE 2050 can scale rapidly into Europe and have maximum impact on contributing to the relevant European climate objectives with the built environment.
Our project has succeeded when the market embraces CARE 2050 and recommends it to each other in their own networks to help further develop and expand it. Only when we can say that we have created ambassadors.