Strengthening Governance Capacity for Smart Sustainable Cities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strengthening Governance Capacity for Smart Sustainable Cities

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) represent a progression of how cities apply digital technology to serve their populations, pursue sustainable socio-economic development, and transform themselves. The urban development that leads SSC requires a growing number of competencies to work together in order to plan, design, implement and manage the ongoing transformations of the city, enabled by technological innovation. Considering the great attention the concept of SSC has reached in Latin America, our project aims at integrating it into various university courses using new teaching and learning tools, as well as developing new curricula in all levels of education process. Given the increasing number of competencies needed and its interdisciplinary characteristic, the curricula for SSC will be implemented in areas such as ICT, Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism, Urban Planning, Political Science, among others, using a collaborative and international network of selected academic institutions in Latin America and Europe. The main outputs of the project include the development, evaluation and implementation of new courses and programmes on SSC to reach students, policy makers, public managers and other members of the city administration, professionals, managers and entrepreneurs, as well as university faculty that will be trained to apply the developed ICT-based tools to their classes. Besides academic curricula and specialization programmes, the project will provide an e-learning platform filled with a Massive Online Open Course on SSC. The main impacts of the project are to improve the quality of learning and teaching tools, methodologies and pedagogical approaches in the Latin America region, increase the employability and competitiveness of the students, and for the faculty members to increase the quality of their classes by using new learning and teaching tools and new content, as well as promoting life-long learning.

Project Website

http://www.cap4city.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999826 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT FUR WEITERBILDUNG KREMS & Country: AT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR
• UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDUCACAO E ASSISTENCIA ASSOCIACAO
• UNIVERSIDAD EXTERNADO DE COLOMBIA
• UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL NORTE
• POLITECHNIKA GDANSKA
• UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA
• COMPLEXO DE ENSINO SUPERIOR MERIDIONAL SA