e-Academy to support Smart Cities Operations in Palestine (eSCO) project: final achievements

Abstract

This paper presents the final achievements of an Education project granted by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission (EC), focused in particular on three fields that are considered enablers for Smart Cities (SCs): Telecommunications and Computer Networks, IT Security, and Smart Grids (SGs). Policy makers and stakeholders in Palestine (PS) have made the decision to move towards a knowledge-based economy with the aim of providing a rapid but sustainable economic growth. Thanks to the EU funding, it was possible to transfer know-how from European experts to PS and to enhance the capacity building and skills of professors, students, and industry employees. Although the Covid-19 pandemic has compelled to delay some activities related to Academia-Industry cooperation, like the students’ stages at European universities and enterprises, the academic activities have been developed as planned, just accelerating the adaptation of the didactic material to remote learning, phase that was already included in the initial project plan. The paper analyzes the structure and content of the developed didactic material, and the corresponding students’ feedback after the first year of courses delivery.