SMACITE project aims to foster Smart Cities in Europe by developing the skills of the relevant stakeholders. To achieve this goal, we will use Moodle as a Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) platform to deliver free, accessible training to all interested parties. The MOOC will cover various aspects of Smart City development, using a student-centered as well as a multidisciplinary approach combining an adaptive blend of both technical (for Smart Cities enabling technologies) and non-technical (soft, entrepreneurship, and green) skills and competences. With this comprehensive and easily accessible...

The Smart Cities Marketplace offers a wealth of information on European projects supporting Smart City ambitions. The projects have tackled topics such as energy efficiency in buildings, digital infrastructure, positive energy districts, smart urban mobility, and a wide range of other topics of relevance for the sustainable urban transition. Supplemental and in support to the function of the Smart Cities Marketplace is the SMACITE project which suggests a combination of technical, green and soft skills training, to Smart cities technicians and engineers.  Where does your city stand in terms...

What the SMACITE project tells you about the recommended skills for IoT implementation in Smart Cities’ projects? Smart Cities’ projects usually have a strong presence of IoT implementation as part of their activities. The article "User and Professional Aspects for Sustainable Computing Based on the Internet of Things in Europe" in Sensors MDPI by Vera Pospelova, Ines Lopez Baldominos, Luis Fernández, Ana Castillo Martínez and Sanjay Misra analyses in detail which are the recommended skills and knowledge for Smart Cities engineers and technicians. Everything is mapped to the main frameworks...

Immersed in a constant technological change, the innovation rhythm keeps going even quicker. The latest tech developments have been creating new opportunities, and now, their impact is starting the next data centered revolution. Data will become one of the most precious assets of the world by far, even more important than gold.The race to dominate this new era increased the interest in data acquisition, protection, transference, and analysis. These principal data value chain parts can be upgraded due to 5G, Artificial Intelligence, quantum computing and cybersecurity technologies. With these...

What is SMACITE project?Are you interested in Smart Cities? Or are you interested to become a Smart City Engineer or Technician?Check our first video developed by our project partner Olympic Training & Consulting Ltd!Follow us in our website and Social Media accounts and we will keep you updated about the project outputs!

Until very recently, workload in Smart City applications has generally been managed in the cloud, even if that implied the transmission of huge data volume (for example, video streams) and adverse latencies for certain use cases.Recent advances in processing capacity, power management, and wireless communications (from LPWAN to 5G), however, are enabling embedded systems to assume part of the processing load of Smart City applications on the edge or even endpoints, which means, nearer to the data sources and reducing notably response times.A very interesting example is the partnership collaboration...

On Saturday November 27 2022 the SMACITE project was presented at the 26th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics hybrid conference organized by the Greek Computer Society and the University of West Attica. The presentation provided an overview of the project workplan, produced and expected outcomes. During the discussion that followed Mrs Maria Rigou from University of Patras and Mr Ioannis Voyatzis stressed that SMACITE is open to collaborations and ideas of joined initiatives with other relative projects or researchers active in the Smart Cities domain.More information about the event: h...

SMACITE project was presented for the first time to the Bulgarian ICT ecosystem during the BASSCOM Autumn Retreat that took place on October 7-9, 2022 in Varna, Bulgaria. The event was a joint initiative of BASSCOM and ICT Cluster - Varna. More than 45 high-level representatives of leading Bulgarian software companies and BASSCOM associate members, among them universities, non-governmental organisations, centres for vocational training, venture capital funds, etc., attended the meeting.The participants were introduced to the main and specific objectives of the SMACITE Project, planned activities...

SMACITE's partner Luis Fernández from Universidad de Alcalá presented the project SMACITE for the development of two new professional roles for Smart Cities mapped to ESCO and e-CF during the Road to Smart Cities and Digital Sustainability webinar organized on 5th of December, The connection between the digital and green transitions is becoming more and more important. As society becomes increasingly digital, we must ensure that this feeds into the strategy for a more sustainable economy in the future. This webinar focused on current projects supporting this overlying goal, which includes the...