A smart city must ensure, in addition to the implementation of appropriate technological solutions, access to the knowledge necessary for a more effective use of digital tools, promoting personal and collective behaviors aimed at making our society increasingly resilient and sustainable in terms of economic development, environmental protection, human health, inclusion, and social justice. In this perspective, the role of institutions, schools, universities, cultural and social promotion associations, as well as companies and families themselves, is fundamental to educate the new generations in this sense and to lay the foundations for the development of smartcitizenship.

To this end, the Genoa Smart City Association has developed a training project, lasting one year, aimed at secondary schools belonging to the territorial area of the Municipality of Genoa. The priority theme on which the initiative focuses is the responsible and conscious use of digital devices, particularly focusing on the fundamental contribution that technology can offer to address the main global challenges of the present and near future, represented by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as defined by the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda.

The project aims to respond to the training needs of schools in civic and technological education with an innovative approach aimed at deepening digital skills, integrating them with a wide range of issues related to economic and social development, including poverty, hunger, the right to health and education, access to water and energy, employment, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, climate change and environmental protection, urbanization, production and consumption patterns, social equality, justice, and peace.