DevOps – DAISSy

Smart Employees for Smart Cities online conference with the participation of the DAISSy research team of Hellenic Open University

y@nn1s — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 19:26:44 +0000

On Thursday, 25 November, from 9:30-13:15 CET, the DevOps competences for Smart Cities (Smart DevOps) project consortium will hold a final project’s online conference titled Smart Employees for Smart Cities. Those attending will have the opportunity to learn how to bridge the gap between today’s and future’s skills demands of the municipal workforce.

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Smart cities are complex ecosystems that use information and communication technologies for helping their citizens and organizations deal with the challenges of urbanization, safety, resilience, and sustainability. Their creation is a long and laborious transformation that should not be considered mainly as a technical challenge but as a movement to create citizen-centred ecosystems that improve quality of life and stimulate economic activity.

A highly skilled workforce is key in rendering smart city ecosystems a reality. Even though billions of euros are invested in technological or urban development, not sufficient effort has been spent in training the necessary workforce with the skills needed in smart cities ecosystems.

The Smart DevOps project aims to close the gap between today’s and future’s skills demands of the municipal workforce by emphasizing the exploitation of emerging employment paradigms such as DevOps. The key advantage of DevOps is that it allows to innovate and rapidly deploy innovative solutions for the citizens. This was the premise and also a starting point of the DevOps competences for Smart Cities project.

At the final conference, we will present project deliverables, pilot activities results and facilitate discussions about the future of skills development in the Smart Cities sector. Specifically, you will hear about and be able to discuss:

Key transversal and specific competencies for Smart Cities professionals
3 new emerging Smart City job profiles (Smart City Planner, Smart City IT Manager, Smart City IT Officer)
Vocational Curricula for the three job profiles delivered through the Massive Online Open Course and Specialisation Courses
Results of extensive pilot training attended by hundreds of trainees
Smart City Body of Knowledge
A growing community of Smart Cities stakeholders (IT and tech experts, public officials and employees)

The conference targets individuals and representatives of associations, institutions and businesses from local, national and European levels, namely (the list below is not exhaustive):

Smart Cities professionals
Municipalities and cities representatives
IT experts
VET providers
Decision-makers
Policy-makers
Smart Cities Consultants
Smart Cities Researchers

Conference programme

09:30 – 09:40 Welcome and introduction

Peter Palvoglyi, CEO of ALL DIGITAL

09:40 – 10:00 Keynote speech: Career challenges in smart cities – How does the digital transformation of cities affect careers and what has to be done towards a sustainable career ecosystem in smart cities?

Prof Dr Judith Hilde Semeijn, Open University of the Netherlands

10:00 – 10:20 Emerging smart city job roles and skills – The DevOps findings

Prof. Dr. Hans Rüdiger Kaufmann, The University of Applied Management Studies Manheim

10:20 – 10:40 Design and delivery of the Smart DevOps Curricula

Dr Theodor Panagiotakopoulos, Hellenic Open University

10:40 – 10:55 Fireside chat

Upskilling and introducing new profiles in the municipality and smart city administrations

10:55 – 11:10 Break

11:10 – 11:25 Pilot delivery of the Smart DevOps Curricula – Smart DevOps Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Prof Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia – EDEX

11:25 – 11:40 Pilot delivery of the Smart DevOps Curricula – Specialization courses and Work-based learning

Vasilis Kyriatzis, University of Thessaly

11:40 – 11:55 Fireside chat

Discussion with MOOC and specialisation courses participants

11:55 – 12:25 Smart Cities Body of Knowledge

Prof Dr Panos Fitsilis, University of Thessaly

Prof Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia – EDEX

12:25 – 12:45 Q&A about project results

12:45 – 13:10 Fireside chat:

What is the future of Smart Cities and how to prepare for it?

13:10 – 13:15 Closing of the conference

Prof Dr Panos Fitsilis, University of Thessaly

Webinar on 24/03: Developing training methodologies and content for specific job profiles with the participation of Daissy research team of HOU

y@nn1s — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:29:26 +0000

The DevOps Competences for Smart Cities (Smart-DevOps) is an Erasmus+ KA2/Sector Skills Alliances project that addresses the shortage of digital and transferable skills of public sector employees working in smart cities/municipalities and will support them in their professional development.

Combination of a specific approach (DevOps), field (public sector employees in smart cities and municipalities) and lack of educational programmes or courses in the field meant the project consortium started practically from scratch.

It started with in-depth research and analysis of the needs and available trainings to identify the most competitive and high valued skills and competences, continued with identification of the three new professions/job profiles and concluded by developing a MOOC and specialisation courses based on modular design, utilizes open content (digital OERs), and enables flexible learning pathways.

Join us at for the “Developing training methodologies and content for specific job profiles” event to learn more about:

How to identify an emerging job profile in a specific field and how to prepare it for developing of training methodologies and contents.
How to go from identifying job profiles/competence profiles to building an online educational programme that follows ECVET standards. Presentation with examples from Smart-DevOps.

The event is organised within the All Digital Week 2021 campaign and will take place in 24/3/2021 from 16:00 to 17:15.

Registration form and programme of the event can be found here.

More information for the Smart Devops project and Daissy research team can be found in:

Website: https://devops.uth.gr/dev/
Website: https://daissy.eu/
Facebook : @DAISSyResearchGroup, @SmartDevOpsEU
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/daissyresearchgroup/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/daissy_research, https://twitter.com/devops_smart
Instagram : @daissy_researchgroup
Email : info@daissy.eap.gr

Designing and delivering VET curricula in the digital age

y@nn1s — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:48:08 +0000

At the event that is organized in the framework of the European Vocational Skills Week, a group of speakers from the world of VET will address the challenges posed to the sector by the increasing need for digitized training.

The event is part of the Erasmus+ project “DevOps Competences for Smart Skills” and will present project results as a starting point to discuss the impact of ICT-related issues on VET at a time when Covid crisis made unavoidable the switch to technology-assisted learning.

The panelists will draw a full picture of the current situation, trying to sketch how threats can become opportunities and what all stakeholders – teachers, trainers, learners but also decision makers and managers – can do to adapt to the new panorama.

The event will host the following speakers:

Efstratios Charchalakis, Mayor of Kythira, Greece (tbc)
Dr. Panos Fitsilis, Professor at the University of Thessaly and Smart DevOps project coordinator
Theodoros Grassos, Secretary General of EVBB
Apostolos Kalogiannis, Mayor of Larissa, Greece (tbc)
Dr. Achilles Kameas, Professor at Hellenic Open University and Chair of ALL DIGITAL Board
Dr. Theodoros Panagiotakopoulos, Senior Researcher at Hellenic Open University (tbc)
Dr. Dolores Sanchez-Bengoa, Vice President and Professor at the University of Applied Management Studies (Mannheim) (tbc)

The event will take place on Zoom. Registrations for the event are mandatory. We kindly ask you to register HERE.

Smart cities for smart citizens

y@nn1s — Thu, 07 May 2020 17:49:30 +0000

Theme: Smart Cities, DevOps

Start date: 20 May 2020
Location: Online
Organiser(s): ALL DIGITAL
Date and time: 20 May 2020, 13:00-15:30

Why?

This webinar is organized under the framework of the DevOps competences for Smart Cities (DevOps) project that addresses the shortage of digital and transferrable skills in the municipalities’ smart cities sector and will support this sector’s employees in their professional development. Results are expected to benefit smart cities and municipalities which aim to adopt the DevOps culture, principles and practices by introducing DevOps professional profiles.

For whom?

The webinar is aimed at smart cities and their employees, digital skills training providers and people working in the Smart Cities sector, but it is also for anyone who would like to learn:

What does the Smart City of the future look like and what are the skills that people behind the smart cities need to get there?
What are the skills of the smart citizen of the future?
What is DevOps as a software development approach, and how can it be applied to Smart Cities?
How is the Smart DevOps project going to support municipalities to become Smart Cities?

What?

The webinar will include contributions from experts on:

Will Future Cities still be Smart? – Martine Delannoy, Chief Foresight Officer, Digipolis Ghent
Building capacity for a sustainable digital transformation of cities – Davor Meersman, CEO of Open and Agile Smart Cities
Smart citizens’ skills – Kasper Van Hout, European Programmes and International Relations Expert, Murcia Municipality, Spain
DevOps approach – Panagiotis Lambetidis, Sword Group
DevOps project – Panos Fitsilis, DevOps project coordinator, University of Thessaly
Moderator – Anna Lisa Boni, Secretary General of EUROCITIES