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| Title | Modeling And Analyzing The Availability Of Technical Professional Profiles For The Success Of Smart Cities Projects In Europe |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 37476 |
| Authors | López-Baldominos I.; Pospelova V.; Fernández-Sanz L.; Castillo-Martínez A. |
| Year | 2024 |
| Published | Sensors, 24, 18 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s24186089 |
| Abstract | The success of developing and implementing Smart Cities (SC) projects depends on a varied set of factors, where the availability of a qualified technical workforce is a critical one. The combination of ICT requirements, like the effectiveness and quality of solutions merging IoT, cloud computing, sensors, and communications with the work from many varied disciplines (e.g., civil engineering, architecture, etc.), mixed with aspects of environmental and business sustainability, makes the management of these projects really challenging. Reports forecast a scarcity of qualified candidates, given this complexity and the growth of activity in SC projects. The European project SMACITE has addressed the requirements of the qualification of an ICT workforce with an analysis of multiples sources of information from the labor market, feedback from involved stakeholders, and the literature. The goal was the development of two occupational ICT profiles as a reference for training and for the availability of candidates for job vacancies. The result is two ICT role profiles for engineers and technicians, mapped with the European skills frameworks ESCO and EN16234. The profiles determined the whole set of requirements, including not only the technical areas and soft skills, but also additional technical areas and sustainability and managerial skills and the analysis of different sources of information. Our work has also determined which existing ESCO occupations are similar to the two reference profiles, so they are better adapted to SC projects. The training activities of SMACITE have also suggested the amount of training expected for a varied sample of candidates who want to be qualified for SC projects. © 2024 by the authors. |
| Author Keywords | availability; Europe; human factors; qualification; smart cities |
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