The IAAC Global Summer School 2012: SMART itSELF started on Friday with an introduction on the program’s objectives and aims by the main tutors of the workshop : Areti Markopoulou, Rodrigo Rubio, Tomas Diez and Luis Fraguada. 15 Participants of different nationalities will be working on the ideas of Heliocell. During the course the participants are being trained in different softwares and hardwares that they will be using for the development of the summer school’s project.