Improving Quality of Life Through Engineering Education. A Case Study

By definition, a smart, sustainable city is technologically enabled, connected and agile to address economic, environmental and social challenges. The success of a smart city, however, also relies on the competencies of its citizens, suggesting a re-modelling of engineering education towards a learner-centred, competency-based education. This paper gives an overview of the challenges encountered throughout implementing the BIOART multinational curriculum development project. A project that tackled the challenges for an inclusive, resilient smart city concept by developing novel teaching and learning content and adopting innovative educational methodologies in biomedical engineering, a.o. in the context of an internationally organised summer school and online hackathon.