INFO | Title: DevOps competences for Smart Cities | |
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Acronym: DevOps | ||
Programme: Erasmus+ KA2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices – Sector Skills Alliances (SSA) | ||
Start – End Date: 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2021 | ||
Funding Agency: Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), European Union | ||
Project Homepage: http://devops.uth.gr/ | ||
Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Panos Fitsilis (fitsilis@uth.gr) | ||
Status: Completed |
DESCRIPTION
SmartDevOps is an E+ Sector Skills Alliance where Universities, VET providers, companies and standardization bodies come together to define and develop the skills needed in an emerging and very dynamic sector: Smart Cities. The project 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. It is a Sector Skills Alliance where universities, VET providers, companies and national standardisation bodies come together to define and develop the skills needed in an emerging and very dynamic sector: Smart Cities. It will address those working on Smart City strategies and tools, i.e. ICT and technical staff in municipalities, and will apply the DevOps approach to their work.
PROJECT OUTCOMES
Identify competencies and job role profiles of Smart Cities DevOps professionals.
Overall, the project will benefit Smart Cities which aim to adopt the DevOps culture. This will raise the quality of e-services, helping those Cities become truly IT sustainable while fulfilling their scope to “connect, protect, & enhance the lives of their citizens via digital technology”.
University of Thessaly (Coordinator)
Hellenic Open University, DAISSy Research Group
Ethniko Systima Ypodomon Poiotitas (Elot)
Digital Cities Of Central Greece
Associazione Centro Studi Citta Di Foligno
Nicosia Development Agency (ANEL) LTD
Associazione Stati Generali dell’Innovazione
Europaischer Verband Beruflicher Bildungstrager
Hochschule der Wirtschaft für Management,
Bundesverband der Träger beruflicher Bildung e.V