The International Observatory on Smart City Learning brings together researchers across Europe in an endeavor to address designing for the learning in future Smart Cities as a holistic Grand Challenge (GC) that requires a multidisciplinary approach.

Problems to be tackled include the identification of a suitable model to describe learning experiences in smart cities on an individual, social and contextual level, as well as the redefinition of the learning space that foresees not only a redesign of the spaces of the formal learning but their integration with the urban space by use of embedded technologies.

The SCLO was a predecessor of the Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development.