This year's EU Green Week is clear in its focus: "green

jobs for a greener future." It's highlighting how  are helping to create new work opportunities and a demand for new types of competences. Smart city projects are playing a big role in all of this - revolutionising the way we live and work and the resources we use.
"We have identified, especially from the municipalities side, that there is a need to create new skilled jobs for the creation of specific cross-department teams to work on defining action plans for cities, supporting the design of solutions and an understanding of the needs," says Miguel Garcia, from the REMOURBAN , which is pioneering new approaches to urban regeneration in the Spanish  of Valladolid, Nottingham in England, and Tepebasi/Eskisehir in Turkey.
"We're working on an urban regeneration model to develop more sustainable environments. This focuses on  for retrofitting buildings and sustainable mobility technologies, including charging points for electric vehicles," he explains.
"And we need new types of jobs, more specialised jobs. For example, in maintaining the electric charging infrastructure of a city, to deliver all the services we will be providing from the urban platform and so on. We will see more jobs with a strong ICT component," continues Garcia.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-green-smart-cities-eco-friendly-jobs.html#jCp