"High and advanced skills in scientific and digital sectors are becoming a crucial part of literacy in the knowledge economy and background. Science education cannot be viewed as elite training for future scientists or engineers; only science-aware citizens can make informed decisions and engage in dialogue on science-driven societal issues. Scientific and ecological issues interest among students is very high, but often the quality of teaching and learning in the field is not at the same level, particularly ICT sector is one of the only sectors still demonstrating growth and knowledge and competency in environmental sciences and mathematics has become a crucial key skill. DIGITgame Strategic Partnership addresses all its efforts to ""enhance the quality and relevance of the learning offer in education, training and youth work by developing new and innovative approaches”. Project consortium constituted a strategic partnership of pedagogical and technological experts which obtained the goals of developing and disseminating an innovative strategy for consolidating knowledge with the support of gamification tool. The new method suggested a tool for a new and practice approach that enables teachers and learners to collaborate in creating live interactive resources as a videogame.By the application of typical elements of game playing (rules, point scoring, competition) to other areas of activity (scientific disciplines) DIGITgame engaged students in consolidating and deepening acquire concepts and competences and, by the suggestion of specific learning gains, the game has been used as a good form of active learningOBJECTIVES and activities DIGITgame promoted the gamification activity as integration of STEM concepts acquired by aimed lessons and an active engagement of students as ""gamifiers""; it represented a strategy to build a shared and exciting collaboration between teachers and learners to overpass knowledge underachievement 1) Analyze the attitudes and skills around science and ecology of educators and students to influence them to be smart citizens of the future 2) Design and develop a wide set of lessons on basic science subjects: climate dynamics, changes and evolutions; plants physiology and ecological role 3) Engage students (driven by their teachers) in designing and realizing videogames well-structured on the acquired skills aimed to involve and ""challenge"" other students different in age and competences 4) Create contents and work steps available through the project collaborative platform to facilitate its use with different typologies of end users and stakeholders 5) Assess the quality and impact of the project after its implementation, both in terms of attitudes and skills about science and the quality of the methodology, platform and material developedEducators, Teachers and Learners communities, in formal (schools) and informal (education foundations, research scientific institutions) learning scenarios have been the main target groups of the project’s activities and results. Within the DIGITgame community, learners and educators adopted several roles: consumers of teaching resources and producers of new learning materials. Scientists and other stakeholders (entrepreneurship, public bodies, etc.) have been invited to contribute to the creation of learning materials and involved in dissemination activities through Conferences and seminars at national and international level.The project consortium was constituted by 5 partners from 3 countries (TR, UK, IT) with a close collaboration of enterprises (PIXELMILL LTD, UK), research institution (IBE-CNR, IT), innovative foundation (TAGES, TR) and schools (K12, TR – SENSALE, IT) that allowed a multidisciplinary approach that encouraged making the project outcomes suitable and useful to a wider range of users.DIGITgame project obtained positive and long-lasting effects on participants, organizations, and people involved in the actions and target groups. Project educational modernization items and improvement of tools developed key competencies and lead students and teachers more creative, innovative and competent."

The Triangulum project will demonstrate how a systems innovation approach based around the European Commission’s SCC Strategic Implementation Plan can drive dynamic smart city development. We will test the SIP across three lighthouse cities: Manchester, Eindhoven and Stavanger, which represent the main typologies of European cities. They will be complemented by our follower cities Prague, Leipzig and Sabadell. This powerful combination reflects an urban population of between 100k and 1,2m inhabitants across six different countries, allowing us to demonstrate successful replication across a wide range of typical urban areas in Europe. Each city has already made significant progress towards the transition of becoming a smart city; developing their own individual approach reflecting specific local circumstances. These inherent strengths will now serve to accelerate the smart city development across proposed demonstration sites within Triangulum. The suite of projects developed will be based around zero/low energy districts, integrated infrastructures and sustainable urban mobility designed to deliver a range of cross-cutting outcomes across different sectors and stakeholders. This will provide the basis to ‘road test’ the SIP and provide recommendations to the Commission on how it could be improved to facilitate wider replication. The Triangulum goals target a series of direct impacts around; reduced energy consumption of buildings, increased use of renewable energies, increased utilisation of electric vehicles, deployment of intelligent energy management technologies and the deployment of an adaptive and dynamic ICT data hub. The design and implementation of innovative Business Models and the activation of citizens as co-creators are core cross-cutting elements to base the technologies in real-world city environments and facilitate replication.