Smart Cities Advanced Learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Smart Cities Advanced Learning

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 : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The SCALE project has achieved the objectives proposed in the project, developing and implementing an online training programme for the acquisition of transversal competences in the field of Smart Cities previously identified. This training programme consists of two clearly differentiated modules, the first one contains some theoretical topics that will facilitate the student the acquisition of the mentioned competences. The second module implements a project-based learning methodology (taking as a basis and example different real projects, which were previously selected), in itself, this module is innovative because it is implemented online; on the other hand, students were organised in international and interdisciplinary teams and the evaluation of the same was carried out through a video that each team had to develop. The elaboration, structuring, approach and application of the teaching methodologies in this training programme were innovative and novel, which allowed it to be published in a high impact journal.

This training programme is designed for university students and recent graduates as well as for students participating in continuing education programmes. To date, two editions of this training programme have been held, with a total of almost 800 students from 25 different countries and from the three profiles mentioned above. Just under a third of the students enrolled successfully completed the programme.

The student mobility programme foreseen in the project has also been successfully completed. These students have spent their internship period working on one of the selected projects (which were used in the second module of the training programme), selecting those who have obtained the best marks in the first edition of the training programme.

Project Website

http://smartcityscale.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 179891 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Energie Impuls OWL e.V.
• FH JOANNEUM GESELLSCHAFT MBH
• WORLD UNIVERSITY SERVICES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN-WUSMED
• Premium Research SL
• FACHHOCHSCHULE DES MITTELSTANDES (FHM) GMBH – UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE –
• ISN – INNOVATION SERVICE NETWORK GMBH