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The best description of the Smart Campus project is the one found in the project website:
“Smart Campus is a lab and a community. The lab builds a social and technical environment for collaborative service design. The community is composed of all students, researchers and campus staff, interested in taking advantage from the Smart Campus services, and in participating to their design.
Smart Campus provides advanced Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions to catalyze the creativity and enthusiasm of all people involved in a University campus, leading them to become active producers of innovative services designed to support their lives.“ (Text from: http://www.smartcampuslab.it)
From a technical point of view, Smart Campus is an Android app or even better an app acting as a container for smore specialized apps. The app was created by TrentoRise, a research institute on education and innovation systems, in order to improve the lives of University of Trento students. As underlined by the name choosen for this project, the initiative is part of a set of projects and initiatives sharing the vision of a smart city.
The “container” application is currently composed of six modules designed to meet all the students’ needs: