Objectives

The main aim of the SMACITE project is three-fold:

To fill the skills gap of technicians and engineers designing, developing, and operating Smart Cities infrastructures and services.
To upgrade the accessibility of Smart Cities professionals to high quality training materials by adjusting proper educational tools and developing profession-specific learning resources.
To unify the appropriate learning outcomes of Smart Cities technicians and engineers and thus improve their mobility throughout EU countries.

The specific project objectives are the following:

Define the emerging job profiles of “Smart Cities Technician” and “Smart Cities Engineer” in line with ESCO, eCF and DigComp to support the transferability and recognition of the developed competences
Design the Smart Cities multi-disciplinary and learning outcomes-oriented curriculum.
Design the learning resources of the curriculum
Design a diagnostic tool to identify the training needs of Smart Cities technicians and engineers and propose flexible and personalized learning pathways
Develop a MOOC for the upskilling/reskilling at Smart Cities enabling technologies (e.g. Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Big Data)
Develop a Virtual Worlds platform for the upskilling/reskilling at soft, entrepreneurial and green skills
Design certification tools to verify the competences
Pilot the curriculum with Smart Cities technicians and engineers from Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, and Spain and evaluate the experience
Measure the curriculum impact
Disseminate project at the target audience
Take measure to support the exploitation and sustainability of project results