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...

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...

The SMACITE project aims to address the skills gap of Smart Cities technicians and engineers, by designing and testing a vocational education and training program. The first essential step for guiding all the activities of the project is the development of two Smart Cities professional role profiles for Smart Cities Technicians and Engineers, always mapping them to the ESCO labour classification (compulsory in all EU countries since 2021) and to the standard EN16234-1:2019 for ICT professional competences, also known as e-Competence Framework. The process for developing these two profiles...

On Monday October 3rd 2022, Ioannis Voyiatzis, Cleo Sgouropoulou and Evangelos Fotopoulos had an interesting interview with Ioannis Katopodis from the Greek Computer Society on the subject on skills and competences required in the context of smart cities education.The Greek Computer Society plays an important role in the promotion and dissemination of the principals of Computer Science and Engineering across all age groups and genders in Greece. They also strive for the scientific representation and support of all scientists and people working in the fields of Informatics, Computer...

On Friday 9th September 2022, Ms. Maria Rigou and Mr. Vasileios Gkamas, University of Patras had an online meeting with Mr. Petros Ganos, Director of the Department of Planning and Studies, Municipality of Patras and Mr. Athanasios Kalogeras, Deputy Director at Industrial Systems Institute / Research Centre ATHENA. The purpose of the meeting was to investigate possible collaboration with Municipality of Patras in the context of SMACITE project. Municipality of Patras participates in the Intelligent Cities Challenge, a European Commission initiative that supports 136 cities in using...

On 15th and 16th of September, SMACITE project had its first face to face meeting in order to continue working on the first actions of the project and to follow up our collaboration to build a strong consortium and ensure the best outputs of the project. In this project we are aiming to boost the technical and non-technical skills and competences of SmartCity technicians and engineersWe want to address the skills gap of Smart Cities technicians and engineers, by designing and testing a vocational education and training program that is based on a novel and multi-disciplinary curriculum...