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...

To achieve one of SMACITE first objective, a mapping of skills and competences for Smart Cities Engineers and Smart Cities Technicians, we have summoned European small and medium-sized enterprises currently supplying technologies for Smart Cities to let us know what they think is required to be able to effectively work in this challenging environment. The involvement of the private sector, through SMACITE partner European DIGITAL SME Alliance and its Focus Group Smart Communities, will ensure that the curriculum follows market specific needs and timely respond to the urgent needs of a city in...

Bilbao was the guest city at the eighth Smart Cities Conference, which under the slogan "Smart solutions for a sustainable city" was held in Zagreb (Croatia) on 6 and 7 April. This is a forum organised by Lider media and the Association of Cities in Croatia with the aim of enabling world leaders to share good technological practices in the smart field. The organising entities chose Bilbao as the guest city because they consider it to be a model to follow in applied to sustainable urban and social development.The Smart Cities Conference aims to give visibility to concrete initiatives and existing...

On Wednesday 3rd November 2022, Ms. Annalisa Rizzo from Apro Formazione had an online meeting with Mr. Andrea Pautasso , Engineer at #Ardea, a company specialized in public lighting systems part of Gruppo EGEA - Ente Gestione Energia e Ambiente group, an important multi-service company operating in the energy and environment sector.  Anrdea actually manages over 35.000 street lights implementing innovative LED solutions and cutting-edge technologies that help municipalities to save energy and money and improve quality of life for residents. During the meeting, Ardea presented its vision about...

Our first step for developing training resources for the SMACITE project has been the design of two Smart Cities professional role profiles for Smart Cities Technicians and Engineers. The SMACITE project has designed a set of functions and competences aligned with ESCO and with the standard EN16234-1:2019. This is accompanied by a set of knowledge, skills and soft skills for each role profile, related to Internet of Things, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Data Analytics, Machine learning and Big Data, Business and Management and Green skills. For a Smart Cities Engineer to have knowledge and skills...

The Smart Cities Index Report 2022 describes comprehensively the challenges, good practices, and enablers in front of the stakeholders who build, manage and develop our modern living spaces. It explores the challenges, good practices, and measurements among 31 cities, 1489 applications and services, 514 infrastructure services, 1088 projects, and 206 living labs globally.The main findings of the survey confirm the SMACITE assumptions about the need of active participation of all citizens and specialists in tackling the challenges of the city environment, in improving the quality of life in over...

The Intelligent Cities Challenge is a European Commission initiative that supports 136 cities in using cutting-edge technologies to lead the intelligent, green and socially responsible recovery. The ICC cities and their local ecosystems will be engines for the recovery of their local economy, create new jobs, and strengthen citizen participation and wellbeing. Operating the fast growing Smart Cities infrastructures and services acquires boosting the technical and non-technical skills and competences of smart city technicians and engineers!This is SMACITE's main objective!For more information...