On Wednesday 5 March, the National Workshop of the Erasmus+ SMACITE project was held at the Palazzo Mostre e Congressi Giacomo Morra in Alba. The workshop was dedicated to innovation and the training of technicians and engineers for Smart Cities and was organised by APRO Formazione, a partner in the project, in collaboration with the Municipality of Alba, an associated partner.
‘The Municipality and the administration are proudly alongside Apro in this project that comes from the European Union’ - declared the Mayor Alberto Gatto and the Councillor Roberto Cavallo - ’the concept of Smart City and, more generally, of combining the digital and ecological transition, are fundamental for mapping out the future of our city. On the one hand, we need to acquire technological knowledge and skills to keep up with a world that is changing ever faster; on the other hand, we need to ensure that new technologies are combined with good practices and a collective awareness that can preserve the environment and guarantee an increasingly liveable, usable and healthy city’.
After the President of Apro Formazione Paolo Zoccola had opened the proceedings, the APRO Formazione team presented the results of the work of the 12 partners involved in the project, namely universities, vocational education and training centres, associations of technology companies and a certification body from Greece, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy and Belgium.
The round table, moderated by Giancarlo Scarzello, entrepreneur in the renewable energy sector, was joined by climatologist and scientific and television broadcaster Luca Mercalli and journalist and broadcaster Franco Borgogno to discuss the present and future prospects of the use of technological tools and conscious behaviour to increase the sustainability of digital cities.
The event was attended by students from APRO Formazione in Alba, I.I.S. Einaudi, I.I.S. Cillario Ferrero and Liceo Cocito.
The European Smacite project has achieved its objectives of identifying and developing:
- a skills map for technicians and operators of Smart Cities based on the European ESCO classification.
- a curriculum that integrates technical and transversal knowledge for personalised training.
- a free online learning platform where you can find 13 courses on technological subjects (Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Big Data, Drones, Cybersecurity and others) and virtual environments for the development of soft skills, entrepreneurial skills and sustainability.
The experimentation relating to the online courses of the SMACITE project was conducted by over 330 students, with a wide representation of university students, technical institutes and vocational training, as well as professionals from the private and public sectors.
Further information is available on the official website of the project: https://smacite.eu
The courses are free and available on the educational platform https://mooc.smacite.eu
