PostGraduate in Smart Cities
Cycle
Curso de Pós-graduação
Degree
Not awarded
ECTS Coordinator
Vítor Manuel Pereira Duarte dos Santos,Marco Octávio Trindade Painho
Education objectives
From the point of view of the Information Systems, Smart Cities can be seen as living organisms where monitoring and processing a large amount of data in real time, over a city’s activity, is critical. Therefore, the idea of city metabolism has gained notoriety, inspired by biological concepts, to show that a city is a growing fabric and it expands like a living organism.
This context brings new challenges for Informatics, setting important goals such as the development, the implementation, and the conception of new approaches, tools and methods, to transform the cities into a more habitable place for every society groups.
This problem can be addressed facing three main strands: Services, Analysis and Participation, with the purpose of, subsequently, integrating the results in an informatics toolbox, to be adopted by cities in order to develop IT systems supportive of smart cities.
The postgraduate program in Smart Cities answers to the need of a higher education in a key field to the development of the national economy.
It is aimed at managers, technical staff in public or private sectors, and other professionals that wish to acquire skills and knowledge in information systems for Smart Cities, using the most advanced technologies, data collection, analysis and processing methods.
The program is developed around the new challenges for IT, including the development, implementation and the design of new approaches, tools and methods for making cities a more habitable place.
Applications
To complete the application, the applicant must register in NOVA IMS' Applications Portal, fill the form, upload their Curriculum Vitae and submit the application in the end, from January 5th to 28th, 2016. The selection process is based on the analysis of the applicant's academic and professional curriculum, and an interview.
Access conditions
<p> The requirements for the applications are: </p> <p>A degree in a compatible field;</p> <p>Analysis of the applicants' academic and professional curriculum;</p> <p>Interview conducted by the Admissions' Jury Panel.</p>
Degree pre-requisites
To earn the postgraduate program diploma in Smart Cities, students must complete 10 course units, in a total of 60 ECTS.
Access to other courses
Evaluation rules
Structure
| 1º year - Autumn semester | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| 400045 | Negócio e Inovação nas Cidades | 4.0 |
| 400046 | City Intelligence | 7.5 |
| 400047 | Data Mining | 7.5 |
| 400048 | Big Data | 7.5 |
| 400049 | Seminário Tecnologias de Informação nas Cidades II | 3.5 |
| 1º year - Spring semester | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| 400050 | Gestão de Bases de Dados | 7.5 |
| 400051 | Computação Móvel e Ubíqua | 7.5 |
| 400052 | Tecnologias de Informação Geográfica | 4.0 |
| 400053 | Integração e Cidadania Digital | 7.5 |
| 400054 | Seminário Tecnologias de Informação nas Cidades I | 3.5 |