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Funding Programme: Erasmus+ KA2, Sector Skills Alliances
Project Duration: 36 months
Project Title: Smart-DevOps
Duration: 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2021
Total Budget: € 979.536

Partnership:

  1. University of Thessaly (UTH), Greece – Project coordinator
  2. Hellenic Open University, Greece and its DIASSy Research Group – ALL DIGITAL member
  3. Ethniko Systima Ypodomon Poiotitas (Elot), Greece
  4. Digital Cities Of Central Greece, Greece
  5. University of Nicosia, Cyprus
  6. Associazione Centro Studi Citta Di Foligno, Italy – ALL DIGITAL member
  7. Nicosia Development Agency (ANEL), Cyprus
  8. Associazione Stati Generali dell’Innovazione, Italy – ALL DIGITAL member
  9. Europaischer Verband Beruflicher Bildungstrager (EVBB), Germany
  10. Hochschule der Wirtschaft für Management, Germany
  11. Bundesverband der Träger beruflicher Bildung e.V, Germany
  12. ALL DIGITAL AISBL, Belgium
  13. K-DIGITALE SRL, Italy

Smart-DevOps 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.

The project will:

  1. Map skills needs of smart cities Development and Operations professionals (ICT project managers, coders, technical writers, web-designers, system administrators, technicians, etc.) working in municipal ICT departments.
  2. Design and deliver a VET curricula combining digital and transferrable skills, including a MOOC, open educational resources (OERs), e-learning, face-to-face training and work-based experience.
  3. Pilot the developed curricula in Cyprus, Germany, Greece, and Italy and valuate the experience.
  4. Disseminate and exploit the project results beyond the partnership.

Some key features:

  • The project will strengthen the collaboration between VET (vocational education and training) providers, municipalities and smart cities IT vendors.
  • eCF (European e-Competence Framework) will be used to describe the profiles
  • a mapping exercise to ESCO-ISCO08 will be done (European and International Standard Classifications of Occupations)
  • EQAVET (the European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training) will be used to ensure quality of training provision
  • the project will relate to EQF / NQF (European and national qualifications frameworks) and ECVET (European credit system for vocational education and training) to facilitate mobility and recognition.

For more information: www.devops.teilar.gr