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INTRO

The Skills4Cities project has already kicked off, an Erasmus+ project which aims to develop and test learning and validation tools for training of experts on smart cities!
On November 13th, 2020 the Smart Skills for Smarter Cities (Skills4Cities) had its kick-off meeting where the 6 partners established the first steps in the new Erasmus+ project
 
The Skills4Cities project develops and tests learning and validation tools for the training of experts, personnel, and managers of the smart cities for their newly emerging roles. It is aimed at understanding better the challenges the smart city projects bring during their design and implementation and to propose new job roles of the experts involved in this process. The novelty is that the project clarifies the fields of the knowledge, skills, and abilities that are of critical importance for the efficiency of the smart city projects and elaborates a model for upgrading the competencies of main target groups.

Target Groups

The model under the project serves to clarify and test the group of competencies that the target groups should upgrade through a certified training to respond to the needs of cities.
Primary Target Group
Project managers, advisors, developers in cities
Secondary Target Group
Cities' administrations

Project Outputs

Intellectual Output 1
​Toolkit for smart city competencies framework

  • Smart City Competencies Map (a competence model and the first stage of preparation of the framework, based on the desk fast-track study of good available practices)
  • Reference Competencies Framework (a description of the competencies that the smart cities administration/governance need)
  • VET Curriculum (occupational skills for the smart city projects implementation with the related learning materials and tests)
  • User Guide for implementation (a peer-to-peer teaching guide for the learners and trainers)

Intellectual Output 2
​Validation tools for smart city competencies

  • Guidelines for Validation of competencies for a smart city administration (it clarifies the basic features of validation and identifies and recommends referent phases of this process.)
  • Rules for Certification of smart city roles (it describes the process of examination, certification, and recognition of the competences acquired in the training of the target groups based on the framework elaborated under this project)

Smart Cities Competencies Map

As first task of the project, the smart city competencies map is being developed. The mapping will clarify what are the required competencies of the smart city practitioners who work on developing, advising and managing smart city projects of different kinds and scale.

The structure of the competence map will be based on the Skills4Cities fields of competencies model (for knowledge, skills, and abilities).

This model has been prepared to facilitate the process of elaborating job profiles for target group. It serves to clarify and test the set of competencies that target groups should upgrade through the corresponding certified training in order to respond to smart city needs so that they have more effective development, management, and implementation of smart city projects.

​The following four groups (set) of competencies were identified for mapping at the preparation stage that have to be verified in the next level of development:

Project Partners

The Smart Skills for Smarter Cities [Skills4Cities] Project No. 2020-1-BG01-KA202-079071​ has been co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. 

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