CRISIS project mainly focuses on improving digital, transferrable, resilience, and smart city-related competences of people interested in seeking job opportunities and careers as Smart City Resilience Officers (SCROs).

CRISIS project mainly focuses on improving digital, transferrable, resilience, and smart city-related competences of people interested in seeking job opportunities and careers as Smart City Resilience Officers (SCROs). The need for such trained personnel will grow rapidly in the next few years as more and more cities are becoming digitalized and interconnected. At the same time, growing urbanization, globalization, and climate change constitute three major threats that demand effective resilience strategies and mechanisms. The project activities are to:

  • Develop a self-assessment tool to identify learning gaps in SCRO competences and determine individual learning experiences and traits
  • Implement a tool to design learning journeys tailored to the city-specific needs and the individual competence level
  • Realize a modular SCRO curriculum that will facilitate flexible learning paths. The CRISIS curriculum will reflect the vision and intentions of this project. In order to meet this objective, the curriculum for the new job profile will be developed aiming at people interested in seeking job opportunities and careers as SCROs. The curriculum document will contain the following: Curriculum information, Learning Outcomes, Competences Outline, and Content Design, Competences Dependencies and Schedule, Competences Assessment policy, Curriculum policies, Learning journeys, etc
  • Produce digital OERs for the SCRO competences: In order to implement and deliver the curriculum designed, the CRISIS Training Kit (TK) needs to be developed which will include all appropriate objects required for the delivery of the course. The training modules supported by digital OERs will lead to the development of at least 20 core competences from the aforementioned areas that the CRISIS project will deliver. The TK will address modules that support skills in the following main areas:
  1. transversal skills (e.g., crisis management, decision making and problem-solving),
  2. smart city planning and organizational skills (e.g., smart city stakeholder management and citizen engagement, smart city standards for resilience),
  3. resilient management skills (e.g., risk assessment and quantification, evaluating smart city assets) including risk response planning and effective disaster response (e.g., smart city response planning, coordination of critical systems),
  4. business and financial management skills (e.g., planning financial recovery programs).
  • Create different teaching and learning activities to address a range of learning needs and styles
  • Develop an integrated online platform with adaptivity mechanisms to tailor the teaching and learning process to individual learning goals and strategies. The platform most probably will be based on moodle LMS with custom tools and mechanisms to reflect the needs of the individual learning journeys,
  • Pilot the SCRO curriculum in 4 project countries with participants from smart cities and from the project associate partners and produce the first cohort of certified SCROs. One main objective is to certify the first cohort of SCRO in four partner countries. This action will increase the awareness that resilience competences are needed if we have to achieve resilience for our cities
  • Evaluate and update CRISIS tools, methodologies, platform, curriculum, learning material, and pilot course to identify inadequacies and best practices
  • Promote, disseminate and exploit the results at national and European levels