The participants will learn about the basic background and concepts of smart cities within the course and will be able to gain an understanding of different approaches to the topic through the interdisciplinary perspective. Students will gain insight into the areas smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment, smart people, smart living and smart governance. Students will learn about the challenges, approaches and behaviour of different stakeholders through practical examples. The acquired knowledge will be implemented through interdisciplinary project work of the students. In this examination-oriented course, students are invited to attend. Cooperation and discussion in the classroom is welcome.

Lecture, project work in small groups, presentation of the project work, discussion, peer feedback

The course will cover the background of smart cities, with the combination of public management, technology and information systems and their influence on the sustainable development of cities.The lecturers try to consider the topic of smart city as an interdisciplinary research field from an economic and (information) technical perspective. Different aspects as well as the relevant sectors and stakeholders are presented. The students learn a theoretical and a practical approach and get an insight into a new, exciting subject field.Subjects:Overview – definitions and conceptsInstitutional analysis and policy                                               Resources, skills, resilienceBusiness-government relations (PPP)Energy networks, energy generation and distributionSmart metering, data aggregation                                                Information extraction – privacy and ownershipInformation networks, sensor networksSmart transport infrastructure, advanced mobilityand logistics services                                                                                 Grade of service, road safety, impact analysis                                Early warning system

Requirements:content: willingness and interest of the students to the transdisciplinary examination of the course contents.formal: the course is for master students of economics, science for networked and embedded systems, as well as for science for intelligent systemtechnologies. The content and administrative scope of the project work is divided evenly among all group members - team skills and self-organization are therefore required.

The literature used in the course is provided in the Moodle course.

Project work / presentation of project work by groups / written exam.

The project work and project presentations of the group are evaluated on the base of completeness, content quality and visual processing.The content of the written exam relates to the interdisciplinary topics discussed in the lesson.

Project work and presentation of project work by the groups (50%) / written exam (50%).As a minimum, the following performance criteria need to be met in order to successfully complete the course:Participation (a minimum of 80% during classes, in any case during the first session)Submitting assignments, homework, seminar papers, etc., within the communicated deadlineIn case any of the above-mentioned performance criteria are not met throughout the semester, the course will be evaluated negatively with immediate effect, and students need to retake the course.