A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SMART CITIES TECHNICIANS AND ENGINEERS

Abstract

A Smart City is a city where traditional infrastructures and services are made more efficient by exploiting digital solutions for the benefit of citizens and businesses. A Smart City aims to transform its infrastructure and services to offer smarter urban transport networks, upgraded water supply and waste disposal facilities, as well as more efficient ways to light and heat buildings. A Smart City also aims to have a more interactive and responsive city administration, safer public spaces, as well as to meet the needs of an ageing population. However, the lack of skills is a major barrier for the design and deployment of smart solutions for sustainable cities and thus to exploit the Smart Cities potential. In this work, we present a curriculum for the upskilling and reskilling of Smart Cities Technicians and Engineers. The curriculum adopts a student-centered and multi-disciplinary approach combining an adaptive blend of technical skills and competences for Smart Cities enabling technologies, as well as non-technical (soft, entrepreneurship and green) skills and competences. Moreover, the curriculum is modular and flexible, including a set of courses that are further split into training modules and sub-modules. The curriculum has been developed in the context of the Erasmus+ project SMACITE and will be supported by key stakeholder groups including SMEs and other labor partners, education and training providers, the public sector and last but not least, learners themselves.