Sostenibilità e vivibilità della città contemporanea: verso la Smart City

The aim of this project was raising youth awareness of the urban environment sustainability and of the issues related to the clever use of urban resources (‘smart city’) through direct experiences of new technologies. The choice of partnership that, regarding the schools included three High Schools whose syllabuses is based on Humanities studies as the Liceo Classico Statale “Francesco Vivona” in Rome Italy, the Lycee ¨Polyvalent Auguste Blanqui” Saint Ouen Paris France and the Budapest XIII “Kerületi Berzsenyi Dániel Gimnázium” in Budapest Hungary, benefited of other collaborators as “Open City”, an association with social and cultural aims set in Rome Italy, the museum “Mairie de Saint-Ouen” Saint Ouen Paris France and the historical museum “Budapesti Történeti Múzeum” in Budapest Hungary, was driven by detailed guidance. We wanted to give an international approach, with attention to the European area, engaging together schools having the same background and common syllabuses - living all in a capitol city, but very different at the same time, so as to have all the partecipants live an all-round experience. Considering this important paradigm we decided to host the students in other students’ families to promote a full immersion experience. The other partenership were chosen according to our needs, above all to have all the necessary technological support and a cultural basis which is so relevant when dealing with classical studies.The main but non exclusive focus of the project was the analysis of river resources. In fact the three city has this in common: they are crossed by an important river, the Tiber, the Seine, the Danube, which influenced the history and the development of their city from the city centre to the suburbs.The activities were the following:•Organisational meetings•Short-term mobility – students exchange, Italian, French and Hungarian students escorted by their teachers•Long-term mobility•Use of various interactive means for the staff members to organize some activities with the other parterns and to communicate; for the students to socialize •Realization of an ebook, with a link on the websites of the three schools•Setting up and putting into service an App on two of the main smartphone platforms (IOS and Android)Results achieved:STUDENTS•Educational and pedagogicalUnderstanding of the social values of their territoryGroup work experiences and long-distance interactionsInformal learning, also off school premisesSense of belonging to a unique European cultural context and promotion of cultural diversity of the three schools from the methodological and educational point of view OTHER PARTNERS•Information and promotionalBrand promotion and functions performed promotionProducts and services marketing through word of mouth on social network and link exchanges on websitesCurriculum and field experiences for temporary collaborations in similar experiences in the youth worldAll the activities substanziated ebooks and apps in a dynamic container which other students will be able to implement. In particular the ebook was conceived in three narrational moments: the past, the present and the future expectations the students hope to find in a smart city fully usable. The “SLCC-Toward-Smart-City” App, that is a guide to “Discovery, Play, Dream” in English, in Italian, in French and Hungarian thought to be ready for the youth, accompanied by games and other entertainments which is a synthesis of the way the students discovered their own city.