<< Background >>The European project ATHIKA (Advanced Training in Health Innovation Knowledge Alliance) was born with the purpose of bringing a humanistic approach to the engineering education while addressing the most important new research in the world of AI and IoT linked to Healthcare. It has been achieved by building a set of advanced training programs for students, involving academia, health public administration, SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs, and health business consultants.<< Objectives >>ATHIKA project has successfully achieved the objectives by developing a KA through the cooperation and involvement of the HEIs, SMEs and Industry of the KA with the final result of an international multidisciplinary free-access online eHealth course for all backgrounds that provides the tools (key digital competences, job-specific skills, ethical awareness, innovative pedagogies, cutting-edge knowledge, Challenge Based Learning) to face eHealth challenges(from technical and business perspective)<< Implementation >>The ATHIKA project designed the ATHIKA Framework for the eHealth Challenge identification and Scenario Planning, the companies designed their challenges using it. In parallel, the HEIs prepared the ATHIKA course platform, focusing on a common part (eHealth sector and Fundamentals) and on a specific part for IoT, AI&Ml and Gov&ethics has been developed. After deploying the course, a workshop, competition and mobility was hosted. A refinement has been applied following the students' feedback.<< Results >>- ATHIKA framework (Health and Smart City Ecosystem Framework)- ATHIKA course (Unit 1-eHealth; Unit 2-Fundamentals; Unit 3-IoT; Unit3-AI Unit3-Governance&Ethics). More than >180 international students involved- ATHIKA IoT Lite (>300 undergraduate students involved)- ATHIKA competitions (>70 students participated; 12 students won)- ATHIKA Mobility (9 students travelled to the companies of the project)

European cities are becoming living laboratories where industries carry on pilot projects to experiment new devices, all kind of sensors and online information and communication systems. The involvement of universities and research centres in this process is still limited. The increasing availability of data that comes from city sensors, creates new opportunities not just for monitoring and management, it will also radically change the way we may describe, understand and design cities, challenging many fundamental assumptions of the city design and planning professions. For this reason, our Consortium wants to build a Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism (KAAU) to promote the innovative education and training that emerging technologies require. We understand “Advanced Urbanism” as the sensitive integration of ICT in cities, taking in consideration cultural heritage, environmental and social dimension issues. “Advanced Urbanism” is about designing and planning processes –instead of just concrete artefacts, linking citizens, business and government into sustainable urban business cultures. “Advanced Urbanism” requires changing traditional design and planning practices towards more open, collaborative and interdisciplinary practices. KAAU will develop an educational and training platform in partnership with HEI and well-established industrial partners and companies. The objective of this platform is to offer participants the possibility to engage in a semi-professional environment, and develop projects with the support and expertise of individuals and institutions that are commercially involved in their field of expertise. In that manner, it provides a potential jumping platform into future professional opportunities, while offering companies a fresh R+D environment where to propose new design challenges and applications.