Course Syllabus

MOOC Introduction to Smart & Resilient Urban Services with HAZUR^®

This open on-line course intends to contribute to improve citizens' quality of life, providing an overview of how to assess urban services interdependencies and subsequent vulnerabilities, while anticipating crisis situations, investment prioritization and cost optimization thanks to the approach to the city as a System of Systems.

A new innovative position or role in city governments is emerging all over the world; it is been named as Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), Resilience Program Coordinator, Resilience Manager or other integrating existing functions of the city chart. These roles are working with a wide array of stakeholders in order to understand city’s challenges to build resilience. At the same time, public and private initiatives are trying to scale a new emerging market related to city management, "Smart Cities" solutions and Urban Development in order to make progress on global practices in City Resilience.

This MOOC wants to facilitate all this work. After this course and throughout different case studies (Barcelona among others) you will be able to better understand how governments, organizations and professionals are working with the municipalities to be "smarter", innovative and resilient by maintaining a cross-functional overview of the critical service network operational status, as well as using analytical and simulation tools to continuously monitor and improve the resilience of Urban Services and Infrastructures.

Objectives

At the end of the course you will be able to:

• The different visions about Resilience
• How governments, organizations and professionals are working with the municipalities to be "smarter", innovative and resilient
• How analytical and simulation tools are able to continuously monitor and improve the resilience of Urban Services and Infrastructure
• How the innovative solution HAZUR® helps to work in cities with a cross-functional overview to improve city management
• How HAZUR® and the HAZUR® RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM can help organizations to provide innovative services to cites
• How to access to a new and pioneer certification and his associated solution to become an Expert in City Resilience

Length of the course

8 hours

Course Format

This is a self-paced course which means you can work on the course as slow or fast as you like. The course is organized into three modules. The different components of the course are:

• Lectures
• Videos
• Suggested complimentary readings
• Activities from a different kind such as being involved in discussion forums, quizzes or assignments.

Prerequisites

Professionals willing to develop their career in the following industries: Government Administration, city management, urban resilience departments, Management Consulting, Environmental Services, Information Technology and Services, consulting firms, urban operators, smart city sector, engineering, Architecture & Planning

Contributors of the course

This course is monitored by the HAZUR® Expert in Resilience from Opticits.  If you have any specific question about the topics of the course the HAZUR® Expert in Resilience from Opticits will be responsible for answer them with the assistance of the different contributors of the course. 

	Luis Fontanals Professor at IQS-Universitat Ramón Llull		Albert Manjón Vázquez CCO @ Zolertia
	Graham Colclough Chair ISO Smart City Strategic Advisory Group		Jaume Rey, CEO – M2M Cloud Factory
	Dan Lewis, Chief, Urban Risk Reduction Unit; Head, City Resilience Profiling Programme at UN Habitat		Joan Navarro Martín Coordinator of Master in Big Data La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llull University
	Dr. Youssef DIAB, director of studies at the EIVP engineering school in Paris and professor at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.		Francisco Batlle, Co-founder and CEO of Hydromodel Host, PhD in Civil Engineering (UPC)
	Dr. Frederick Krimgold Director at Disaster Risk Reduction Program (DRR) from Virginia Tech - Advanced Research Institute (ARI).		Dr. Agustin Zaballos Area Director at La Salle R&D (Research Group in Internet Technologies & Storage)
	Ramon Martín de Pozuelo Genís Coordinator of Master on Smart Cities and Smart Grids Technologies La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llull University		Ignasi Fontanals CEO at OptiCits
	Marc Fàbregas Bachs CEO & Founder @ Zolertia

 

 

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Completion requirements

• Complete the Welcome Survey
• Overcome all the partial tests
• Pass the final exam

Step forward and become an Expert with the Advanced Course in Urban Resilience

In order to acquire a complete knowledge of Urban Resilience you need to join the Advanced Course in Urban Resilience with Hazur® where you will become a CERTIFIED EXPERT IN URBAN RESILIENCE WITH HAZUR®.

To be able to USE the HAZUR® RESILIENT SYSTEMS in your projects and help cities to change the way they manage their urban services you need to become a CERTIFIED EXPERT or if you are a organization you can become ACCREDITED PARTNER with the HAZUR® RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM:

• PROFESSIONALS will be able to get the certification exam in the ADVANCED COURSE IN URBAN RESILIENCE WITH HAZUR®.
• ORGANIZATIONS can become ACREDITED SILVER or GOLD PARTNERS by joining the HAZUR® RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

 

PROFESSIONALS

Example of certification only for those who pass the final exam in the ADVANCED COURSE IN URBAN RESILIENCE with HAZUR®

 

 

ORGANIZATIONS

 

In you are a profesional interested in the ADVANCED COURSE or an organization willing to join the HAZUR® PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM send us an email to hazur@opticits.com