The Work for a Smart City (WaS-C) Project has the objective to support Addis Ababa City Administration (AACA) in educating professionals in the field of automation engineering who are able to operate and maintain the infrastructure services of the smart city offers to the citizens. AACA defines a smart city as one that employs technology to manage various fields in an integrated and sustainable manner by utilizing networked infrastructures to enhance efficiencies for urban development towards a city that accommodates the needs of citizens as well as the needs of the economic and administrative sector. The main challenge for the AACA is to find qualified workforce to operate and maintain the utilities. The WaS-C Project is creating the ITM curriculum on the job profiles need to build, operate and maintain the utilities of a smart city. A Diploma - and Certificate programme will be developed together with the teaching material and the ITM lab. VR, AR, simulations and digital twins are explicitly created for the teaching/training purpose of the programmes. The AI knowledge for this kind of teaching/training material is with the WaS-C Project partners. A teacher/trainer will get an automation training (incl. internships) and follow a certification programme prior the piloting of the 3-semester Diploma - and the Certificate programme. Monitoring and evaluation goes aligned with the ITM programmes before the handing over as regular VET programme of the implementing VET partner. The Project foresees a makerspace that will get its own legal entity at in month 36 so that it can offer research & development services to the infrastructure service providers. The Project contribute to the different key objectives of the call as well as to the Global Gateway Key Objectives, SDGs, CESA and COMESA goals. Overall the WaS-C Project will target 175 teachers, 100 students and in various events it will reach out to 6.600 people. The makerspace will reach out to 500+ students.