# Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities
## 2 Campus City Initiative Main Components
### Challenge Living Lab  
The Challenge Living Lab is a platform through which a problem is proposed and continuously developed as part of a project selected by the stakeholders and the core team. These projects must have a high social and pedagogic impact because the students' motivation increases when they are involved in projects where the knowledge learned has a meaningful purpose [34; 35; 36]. Moreover, this platform is key for the development of a Smart Campus, since it introduces or develops different technologies in an educational environment [25]. The main objectives of the Challenge Living Lab are systematic innovation, promotion of research efforts, formation of leaders, interconnectivity/data use and fostering multidisciplinary cooperation between public and private institutions with society. This includes a multidisciplinary communication effort between different institutions (university-companies) that provides information, data, technological, economical and human resources and different methodologies needed to promote research ventures that deal with different Pain Points. Moreover, the Challenge Living Lab strengthens and synergistically combines with Tecnologico de Monterrey's academic programs; that is, the students are actively involved in different learning environments that lead to the development of solutions for the problems being experienced by the community, companies or campus users. This involves close cooperation between these stakeholders and collaboration with colleagues to develop socially responsible ventures [34]. To achieve this, Campus City can be integrated into the Tecnologico de Monterrey's educational programs. Figure 4 illustrates the stages of the Challenge Living Lab, as well as the Challenge Based Learning pedagogic model. The Challenge Living Lab's virtuous loop consists of different components (Figure 4) that synergistically work towards the development of a pedagogic challenge based on the sustainable problems of the community, in this case the university district. The first component, Filter, refers to the selection of a project or challenge from both a technical-economic feasibility and cost-effective perspective, while considering the project's main impact on the different Campus City verticals. The second component, Research-Development-Innovation, denotes the availability of the technological and human resources to address the selected challenges. Within this component, different research groups and students are selected to address the challenge. The third component, Training, refers to the formative aspect of the challenge; that is, the challenge becomes a means for the development of competencies and skills in students. This component is naturally aligned with the objectives of Tecnologico de Monterrey's Tec21 educational model. Organization and Adjustment denotes the continuous improvement of the model based on feedback from the stakeholders and students. This component allows the documentation of the challenges, their successes and their areas of opportunity. Finally, Recognition refers to acknowledging the participation of all the parties involved. As mentioned above, Challenge-Based Learning becomes the fundamental pedagogic approach for Campus City project. CBL focuses on the development on competencies as well as hard and soft-skills required to solve the Pain Points of a community or stakeholder [34, 37, 38, 39] within an innovative and flexible learning environment [34, 40, 41]. Combined with Flipped Classroom techniques, this pedagogic approach promotes high levels of engagement and motivation within the students since they develop a sense of meaningful purpose through the learning process [34]. The following section describes in detail the challenge obtained from the above-mentioned process for the Smart Energy vertical axis as an example of the structure, pedagogic intentions and objectives of a typical challenge under the Campus City project.