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Postgraduate course in

Smart Cities: Urbanism, Technology and Sustainability

Start
09/02/2024
Duration
4 months
Delivery
Face-to-face
Fee
€2,600 €2,340

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Presentation

Edition

8th Edition

Credits

15 ECTS (90 teaching hours)

Delivery

Face-to-face

Language of instruction

Spanish

Fee

€2,600 €2,340(10% discount if you enrol before 30th June)

Payment of enrolment fee options

The enrolment fee can be paid:
- In a single payment to be paid within the deadline specified in the letter of admission to the programme.
- In two instalments:

60% of the amount payable, to be paid within the deadline specified in the letter of admission to the programme.
Remaining 40% to be paid up to 60 days at the latest after the starting date of the programme.

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Registration open until the beginning of the course or until end of vacancies.

Start date

Classes start: 09/02/2024
Classes end: 21/06/2024
Programme ends : 28/06/2024

Timetable

Monday: 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Thursday: 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Friday: 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Taught at

ETSAB - Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
Av. Diagonal, 649
Barcelona

Why this postgraduate course?

The last decade has seen the emergence of a new urban paradigm: the smart city. Traditional concepts of living, working and leisure, which are characteristic of rationalist urbanism have been joined by a number of increasingly complex aspects that mean the role of the city must be defined in a new way. Sustainability, social cohesion, governance, innovation and resilience to changes in the environment are some of the factors that make up the city in the Information Age.

The emergence and spread of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has entailed a fundamental change in the contemporary city, making it possible to provide society with the values granted by full citizenship - THE RIGHT TO THE CITY. With these new challenges to society, traditional professions (architects, geographers, engineers, sociologists, etc.) must consider the challenge of knowing how to adapt to the changes taking place in the city, and work in a broad-based manner on planning and management of the complexity that characterises cities in the twenty-first century.

This postgraduate course stems from the proven need to train professionals linked to city planning and management in innovation, participation, quality of life and sustainability that the ICT can contribute to the optimisation of urban processes. It is a postgraduate course aimed at training specialists to deal with a better and more efficient use of resources and the development of innovative management tools based on "smart processes," which will help to expand and enhance the knowledge of professionals working in local government bodies, and planning and management of Smart Cities.

As a city that is a world leader in the Smart Cities sphere, Barcelona City Council is pleased to collaborate with the postgraduate course. Other participants include Sant Cugat del Vallès Municipal Council, L'Hospitalet del Llobregat Municipal Council and Sabadell Municipal Council, which are examples of medium-sized cities that rely on technology and efficiency to provide high quality services for its citizens. The course features renowned professionals and experts in the research field, including the participation of Professor Rudolf Giffinger, of the Technical University of Vienna, who is the leader of the European Smart Cities project and the Planning for Energy Efficient Cities project (PLEEC).

It involves highly practical sessions with the collaboration and participation of institutions and companies including CISCO, INDRA, the Renault Foundation, the RACC Foundation, TRAM, Ecoserveis and Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona.

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Aims

The basic objectives of the programme are:

To train multidisciplinary specialists to deal with planning and management of the city and the territory in the Information Age.
To promote intelligence in the city, using new technologies in order to achieve a more sustainable, efficient, competitive and socially inclusive city.
To increase human capital, culture and citizens’ quality of life by means of greater social cohesion, as well as their participation in decision-making and the establishment of an efficient, sustainable and transparent government.

Who is it for?

Professionals who associate their professional activity with regional planning.
Specialists in government bodies (urban planning and technology departments, etc.).
Professionals from technical or higher degree courses (architects and engineers), graduates in Economics and Geography, Environmentalists, Planners and similar professional.
Professionals who wish to gain a thorough understanding of all the theoretical and practical aspects linked to smart cities, despite having no direct professional association with the contents of the course.

Training Content

List of subjects

5 ECTS 30h

Smart Cities: Urbanism and Technology

Intelligence and the City: cities have always accumulated human intelligence and technological innovations.
Technological Revolutions: from the agricultural to the industrial revolution, and from the industrial to the information revolution.Analysis of the changes experienced by Cities in the Information Age.
Smart Cities in the era of knowledge, information and globalisation, based on information and communication technologies applied to government, management and public participation.
Analysis of case studies, reviewing three of the six areas that make up smart cities: economics, mobility and the environment, which aim to bring technologies into widespread use in order to create more sustainable, digital and competitive cities.
The effects of ICTs on the city and the territory, from the economic, cultural, environmental and social perspectives.
Practical workshops on the virtual city. Visits will be scheduled to institutions, spaces and organisations that collaborate with cities and are part of this network of smart cities.
Technical visits will take place (in the morning) to places of interest linked to the content of the subject, including visits to institutions such as TRAM, Bicing and Ecoparc Besós, among others.

5 ECTS 30h

Smart Cities: people, quality of life and governance

Technology or Urban Intelligence? Smart Cities are not only smart because of their use of technologies, but also because those technologies can help improve their citizens' quality of life.
Studying cities as containers of information and human capital and not just buildings and infrastructures. To that end, the three areas of smart cities that cover people, quality of life and governance (Smart People, Smart living and Smart Governance) will be the particular focus of study on this second course.
Case studies, good practices, and a Workshop that reviews the possible indicators that help measure a city's degree of progress in these areas.

5 ECTS 30h

Smart City Project

Apply the knowledge acquired through the development of innovation projects for a smart city.

It will be developed as a tutored workshop, in order for students to develop innovation projects that help create more intelligent, participatory and inclusive communities, which contribute to improving the quality of life of citizens through the use of technologies, such as Geographic Information Systems or Big Data analysis.

For the development of the workshop, different areas of Smart Cities will be addressed, such as energy, sustainable mobility, services to citizens with the ICT competition, among others. Always with the aim of innovating to create healthy, intelligent and resilient cities. The proposals will be applied to case studies that are of interest, and the participation of the different actors will always be sought: government, economic activity, citizenship and academy.

The UPC School reserves the right to modify the contents of the programme, which may vary in order to better accommodate the course objectives.

Degree

Postgraduate diploma issued by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Issued under art. 34.1 of Organic Law 4/2007 of 12 April, amending Organic Law 6/2001 of 21 December, concerning Universities. To obtain it, it is necessary to have an official university qualification. Otherwise, the student will receive a certificate of completion of the programme issued by the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya. The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya's lifelong training courses are approved annually by the University's Governing Council. (See details appearing on the certificate).

Learning methodology

The teaching methodology of the programme facilitates the student's learning and the achievement of the necessary competences.

As long as sanitary conditions allow it, additionally and at the end of the program, attempts will be made to schedule in-person and / or virtual visits to companies.

Learning tools

Participatory lectures

A presentation of the conceptual foundations of the content to be taught, promoting interaction with the students to guide them in their learning of the different contents and the development of the established competences.

Practical classroom sessions

Knowledge is applied to a real or hypothetical environment, where specific aspects are identified and worked on to facilitate understanding, with the support from teaching staff.

Case studies

Real or hypothetical situations are presented in which the students, in a completely participatory and practical way, examine the situation, consider the various hypotheses and share their own conclusions.

Visits

These visits are to specialist centres, companies in the sector or outstanding and important locations in the sector, in order to obtain knowledge in situ of development, production and demonstration environments within the programme.

Workshops

Students are supported when undertaking group work, including theoretical sessions which provide the tools and knowledge needed to achieve a result. Ideas and results are exchanged between all the participating groups.

Assessment criteria

Attendance

At least 80% attendance of teaching hours is required.

Solving exercises, questionnaires or exams

Individual tests aimed at assessing the degree of learning and the acquisition of competences.

Completion and presentation of the final project

Individual or group projects in which the contents taught in the programme are applied. The project can be based on real cases and include the identification of a problem, the design of the solution, its implementation or a business plan. The project will be presented and defended in public.

Work placements & employment service

Students can access job offers in their field of specialisation on the My_Tech_Space virtual campus. Applications made from this site will be treated confidentially. Hundreds of offers of the UPC School of Professional & Executive Development employment service appear annually. The offers range from formal contracts to work placement agreements.

Virtual campus

The students on this postgraduate course will have access to the My_ Tech_Space virtual campus - an effective platform for work and communication between the course's students, lecturers, directors and coordinators. My_Tech_Space provides the documentation for each training session before it starts, and enables students to work as a team, consult lecturers, check notes, etc.

Teaching team

Academic management

Arellano Ramos, Blanca Esmaragda

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PhD in architecture by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and architect by Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and Master's degree in Urban Management and Valuation from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Associate lecturer at the Department of Architectural Technology of the ETSAB, researcher at the Land Policy and Valuations Centre at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and a member of the Quality of Urban Life and Sustainability research group. She has conducted and directed research in the areas of urban planning, land and housing policy, analysis of urban growth processes: Sprawl vs. Compact City, sustainable urbanism, sustainable mobility, public space, urban regeneration, citizen culture, capital gains and city management models. She has held various positions in the public sector in the areas of housing, land, urban development and ecology, as well as territorial and urban planning.
Roca Cladera, Josep

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PhD in Architecture, and Professor emeritus at the UPC. Director of the Land Policy and Valuations Centre at the UPC. He is director of the Doctorate Course in Urban and Architectural Management and Valuation, a unique programme in Spain as it combines the economic, legal, social and environmental processes that underlie the planning of the city and the territory. He is the author of numerous articles related to the real estate economy, the analysis of territorial structures and the city. His most well-known books focus on the theoretical analysis of the formation of land value and on the practical application of valuation methods. Dr Roca is a national and international benchmark in the valuations field, and especially those related to urban management processes. He has been a Spanish pioneer in teaching valuations at the postgraduate level since the appearance of master's degree courses in the early 1980s.

Teaching staff

Arellano Ramos, Blanca Esmaragda

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PhD in architecture by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and architect by Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and Master's degree in Urban Management and Valuation from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Associate lecturer at the Department of Architectural Technology of the ETSAB, researcher at the Land Policy and Valuations Centre at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and a member of the Quality of Urban Life and Sustainability research group. She has conducted and directed research in the areas of urban planning, land and housing policy, analysis of urban growth processes: Sprawl vs. Compact City, sustainable urbanism, sustainable mobility, public space, urban regeneration, citizen culture, capital gains and city management models. She has held various positions in the public sector in the areas of housing, land, urban development and ecology, as well as territorial and urban planning.
Barceló Bugeda, Jaume

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Doctor in Physical Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Professor of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the Universitat Politèctica de Catalunya (UPC), teaching at the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB) and the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics (FME) at the UPC until 2014. Professor Emeritus of the UPC. Specializing in Transport Systems and the applications of optimization and simulation models for the analysis of transport systems. He is the author of more than 130 research papers published in indexed journals, conference proceedings and books.
Batalla Teruel, Carles

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Telecommunications Technical Engineer and Electronics Engineer from the Ramon Llull University (URL). He is currently a customer solutions architect for the Catalan and Balearic public sector in the commercial office of Cisco Systems in Barcelona.
Guallart Furió, Vicente

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Marco Párraga, Daniel

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A graduate in Electronic Engineering from the UPC and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from ESADE. He is currently director of the SmartCatalonia strategy for the Government of Catalonia, where he has held other positions in the last 11 years, including head of the ICT Industrial Promotion programmes of the Secretariat for Telecommunications, Cybersecurity and Digital Society. He previously worked in the private sector, holding various positions in the strategic consultancy field in the Information and Communication Technologies sector, and in research and development projects.
Marin i Acevedo, Albert

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Engineer in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Master's Degree in Computer Architecture from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Master's Degree in Information Technology Management from the Ramon Llull University. He has worked in the Terrassa City Council, always linked to the management of information technologies. Currently responsible for the technological projects of the city, focused on the development of the Smart City Terrassa Master Plan.
Martínez Gil, Eduardo

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Graduate in Political Science and Administration from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and Senior Technician in Computer Systems and Network Administration. Management Development Program (PMD) by ESADE. In his professional career he has been closely linked to issues of technology and public administration, working, among others, for the Council of the European Union. He is now the manager of the Smart Cities Center of Excellence in Indra-Minsait. As a trainer he collaborates with different universities and with the Generalitat de Catalunya in training in Smart Cities.
Puig i Boix, Josep

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Doctor in industrial engineering, specialising in energy techniques, and a graduate in Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Environmental Management. Director of Ecoserveis. The winner of the "Poul laCour" Prize at the European Conference on Wind Energy 2001, and the 2004 European Solar Prize in the Solar Architecture category.
Quirós Brito, David

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Graduate in RRLL from the UB and Master in Public Management from the University of Ramón Llull. Councilor of Culture and Social Innovation in the City Council of L'Hospitalet.
Roca Cladera, Josep

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PhD in Architecture, and Professor emeritus at the UPC. Director of the Land Policy and Valuations Centre at the UPC. He is director of the Doctorate Course in Urban and Architectural Management and Valuation, a unique programme in Spain as it combines the economic, legal, social and environmental processes that underlie the planning of the city and the territory. He is the author of numerous articles related to the real estate economy, the analysis of territorial structures and the city. His most well-known books focus on the theoretical analysis of the formation of land value and on the practical application of valuation methods. Dr Roca is a national and international benchmark in the valuations field, and especially those related to urban management processes. He has been a Spanish pioneer in teaching valuations at the postgraduate level since the appearance of master's degree courses in the early 1980s.

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