Bashar Nuseibeh and Liliana Pasquale, organised and attended the annual Lero-NII-OU Workshop, on 20-21 April 2014, and which this year was held at the MASDAR Institute, in MASDAR City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. The theme of this year's workshop was "Software Engineering for Smart Cities", in recognition of the the venue of the workshop - MASDAR City, one of the world first "smart cities" being design and developed from scratch by the UAE government. The workshop programme included presentations from Lero, The Open University (OU), the National Institute of Informatics (NII, Japan), and the MASDAR Institute. The MASDAR Institute is a multi-disciplinary research organisation - formally partnered with MIT in the USA - investigating new technologies technologies for smart cities of the future. The workshop keynote speaker was Dr. Sebastian Uchitel, from Imperial College London (UK) and the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). For more information, please drop Bashar or Liliana a line.