# The Campus as a Smart City: University of Malaga Environmental, Learning, and Research Approaches
## 4 Analysis, Research, and Learning Proposals and Assessment
### Smart-Campus Innovation Plan  
In 2018, the Vice-Rectorate of the Smart-Campus launched its first Smart-Campus Innovation Plan. The main aim of this grant call is to foster research, innovation, and development of interdisciplinary projects based on the Smart-Campus infrastructures and framework. The topics of these projects must be related to the pillars of the UMA Smart-Campus (as presented in Section 2 and Figure 4), and they must include an operative prototype in the campus at the end of the project. Since the execution of multidisciplinary projects with the involvement of the university community is a priority, a requirement for the projects includes that the participating teams must be formed of at least two subgroups of different areas of knowledge. Also, each subgroup should include at least two students and a principal investigator. External organizations and companies are also encouraged to participate in the teams. The granted funding can be dedicated to both staff and prototypes. The cost of staff could be used for hiring dedicated personnel and for grants for UMA students. Figure 13 presents the participation data, which were high with 58 project proposals and 724 people involved. Teaching and research staff were the most numerous participating sectors, 52% of the total, followed by students, 32%. Another remarkable detail was the high participation of women (36%) even though the fields of knowledge with larger participation were sectors where the percentage of men tends to be larger [41; 42; 43]. Figure 11: Professors in the project in relation to their field of knowledge (**a**) and gender (**b**). Figure 12: Number of participating students in relation to their area of knowledge (**a**) and gender (**b**). The project proposals deal with topics related to one or more of the UMA Smart-Campus pillars. The top lines are \"ICT\", \"Emissions, Energy, and Water\" and \"Research, Teaching, and Innovation\", with 37, 36, and 34 projects related to them, respectively (see Figure 14). The interdisciplinary nature of the projects, which was one of the main goals of this plan, was successfully achieved because more than 17 areas of knowledge participated (Figure 15). Industrial engineering was the sector with the greatest involvement with 219 participants (a 30%), followed by  
Figure 14: Number of projects in relation to the UMA Smart-Campus pillars. Figure 13: Number of participants in relation to gender (**a**), sector (**b**), and both (**c**). architecture (101 participants, 14%), computer science (98 participants, 13%) and sciences (biology, chemistry, and associated studies) with 78 participants (11%). In this first edition, 15 projects of the 58 presented are funded. The total budget is $252,000. Table 3 is a summary of the selected projects. They are being developed in the 2018-2019 academic year and will have an operational prototype on campus by the end of it. \begin{table}
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**Acronym** & **Description** \\ \hline \multirow{6}{*}{APICAMPUS} & The proposed work consists of developing a pilot project for the installation and monitoring of beehives in the UMA Smart-Campus. A pollen characterization of different “urban” honys will also be made, and the properties of bee products (honey and propolisolis) will be studied. It is noteworthy that environmental dissemination will be made to raise awareness in society about the importance of bees and other pollinators in cities and achieve a more sustainable urban environment. It is also intended to monitor the hives, and the data from the sensors would help in knowing more about the behavior of bees inside cities, which is important in the sustainability of urban ecosystems. \\ \hline \multirow{6}{*}{Bblblio-Smart} & Currently, the limited number of study places in the libraries, computer rooms, and other cultural spaces of our campuses, the potential number of users, and the distance between them generates a huge scarcity in study places.