ECO-DRONE: flying robots for environmental monitoring Erasmus Project

Project Title

ECO-DRONE: flying robots for environmental monitoring

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Access for disadvantaged; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

“ECO-DRONE: flying robots for environmental monitoring” began on the 15 of October 2018, and ended on October 14, 2021, with a duration of 36 months. The project was born from the need expressed by the partner Institutes to guide students, engaged in training courses in the technology sector, to protect the environment and the territory with the goal of increasing their technical and transversal skills, useful in the future. looking for a job and acting on their behavior both individually and collectively. “Francesco Giordani” Industrial Technical Institute and Scientific High School, coordinator of the project, is based in the city of Caserta, whose province has always experienced water and atmospheric pollution rates among the worst in Italy (located among the 60 cities Italians not in line with the limits for the protection of health of the WHO in 2021); in Poland, Turek has the highest number of polluted cities in Europe; in Turkey in Kartepe, unsustainable urban development models have generated phenomena such as surface water pollution; in Hirlau in Romania, numerous industrial platforms have been classified as “highly polluting areas”.
The project, which involved the construction of two drones that, through specific sensors, were able to detect the levels of air and water pollution in the territories where the partner schools insist, due to the blocking of international trade, sanctioned by the Prime Minister’s Decree of 4 March 2020 and even earlier by the MIUR note of 23 February 2020, saw a reformulation of the objectives, placing the emphasis above all on the collection of data to be included in an environmental monitoring report.
The mobilities took place as follows:
– The mobility took place at the “F. Giordani” Institute from 25/02/2019 to 01/03/2019 during which the partner schools started the “ice-breaking” and “getting to know each other” practices “. The participants presented to their colleagues the research works, carried out during the parallel activities, about the pollution conditions that most afflict the territories from which they come.
– The mobility S. Kaliskiego w Turku was responsible for organizing the second training activity from 23/09/2019 to 27/09/2019 and prepared the training activities on the collection and detection of data that the students carried out using built drones.
Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the third and fourth mobility took place online, after waiting for the year 2021 with the hope that the infections would decrease, Petru Rares Romania organized the third online mobility from 10/05 / 2021 to 12/05/2021. The activities carried out concerned the issue of ecological footprint and what are the measures to be taken to reduce our impact on the environment thanks to https://www.footprintcalculator.org/. l Fevziye Tezcan Mesleki in Turkey from 04 to 06 October 2021 was responsible for the implementation of the fourth mobility and the drafting of a final report on the pollution status of the territories analyzed, summarizing what emerged from the previous mobility.
96 students, aged between 15 and 18, were selected to carry out the activities (24 for each partner institution). The learners identified took part in the preparatory phase, in the project activities that took place in the afternoon in each single school and in the learning and training phase abroad / online. The teachers, 2 per school, took part in the project as accompanists during the mobility, with a preference for teachers of electronics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry, or English to support the students and the other teacher.
The project was developed through activities, which encouraged learners to become aware of the value of their daily actions in reference to the repercussions on the ecosystem and group activities that favored the acquisition of transversal skills.
The project was conceived and programmed so that its results could have concrete effects on the improvement of curricular and extra-curricular teaching practices of the schools involved, making necessary changes especially as regards raising awareness of the environmental economy within school paths. ECO-DRONES had the merit of enhancing the training offer offered by the robotics laboratories present in all partner schools and of strongly affecting the employment capacity of the learners involved. In fact, in the long term it is expected that 60% of the students involved in the activities will continue their training by enrolling in Specialized Degree Courses and that 40% will exploit the skills acquired to search for a job.

Project Website

https://www.giordanicaserta.edu.it/index.php

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 71340,6 Eur

Project Coordinator

Iti Ls F.Giordani & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala Petru Rares
• Fevziye Tezcan Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Zespol Szkol Technicznych im. gen. prof. S. Kaliskiego w Turku