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SMARCO – SMARt COmmunities Skills Development in Europe
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May 5, 2025
SMARCO – SMARt COmmunities Skills Development in Europe strives to become a unique one-stop-shop for smart community skills focusing on the three main aims:
- to ensure the development of resilient and sustainable smart communities by addressing the skills gaps of smart city engineers and planners/procurers through the development of urgent upskilling courses and forward-looking training programmes;
- to grant flexible and user-centric learning, trans-national dimension and learning mobility, as well as a wide recognition of trainings through the development of micro-credentials, training certificates and wider certification scheme;
- to create a sustainable community of stakeholders to discuss, share and scale training, upskilling and reskilling linked to smart communities’ skills and relevant best practices via participation in the Pact for Skills (and its Digital Large-scale ecosystem) and the organization of roundtables with decision-makers.
Expected Results
Consortium Partners
SMARCO is a 48 months Erasmus+ project (2025-2029), coordinated by the European Digital SME Alliance, with the contribution of CLUJ IT Cluster, BASSCOM, Cluster GAIA, National College of Ireland, Universidad de Alcalá, University of Thessaly, Edutus Egyetem, Hogeschool Utrecht, Hellenic Open University, Politeknika Txorierri, Cefriel, Fondazione Piemonte Innova, Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft, ENoLL, ATI Comunicación, NCSR Demokritos, Emphasys Centre, Nordic Edge, Nicosia Municipality, Forave, and the associated partner DIGITAL SME France.
“As a contributor to the SMARCO project, Cefriel is committed to ensuring the creation of effective and relevant curricula, by leveraging its long expertise in developing and delivering high-quality training in the digital transformation field”, Domenico Orlando, Cybersecurity Researcher, Cefriel, highlights. “With over three decades of experience in digital innovation, research, and education, Cefriel’s strong ties with industry and academia can facilitate the integration of practical insights and cutting-edge research into the training materials to enhance the project’s implementation and outreach efforts”.
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The transnational composition of the consortium serves as a catalyst for the scalability and transferability of SMARCO’s outcomes, ensuring that knowledge and expertise in smart communities skills development are effectively shared and applied across various European regions.
The transnational composition of the consortium serves as a catalyst for the scalability and transferability of SMARCO’s outcomes, ensuring that knowledge and expertise in smart communities skills development are effectively shared and applied across various European regions.