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 has...

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 Sciences,...

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 cutting-edge...

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 combining...