Innovative Lab infrastructure for Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovative Lab infrastructure for Schools

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In order to take part in the international competition in industry with success, there is a demand of qualified and international experienced skilled workers in the industries of the EU, all member countries, all regions and especially in all firms. A better competition can be achieved through an increase of productivity and quality at less costs with automatized processes. This can easily be done with computer-based methods of production like mechanical engineering, electronics and information technology. Besides the technical qualifications the so called „soft“ factors are getting more important. These „soft“ factors are for example language-skills and social, methodical and personal competences. This project is interdisciplinary and is covering all the before mentioned requirements.
The Project is coordinated by HTL Weiz (Austria), an experience technical high school in the field of electrical and mechanical engineering and project management. IES “BERNAT GUINOVART” (Spain) and LYCEE GENERAL ET TECHNOLOGIQUE VOILLAUME (France) are both experienced technical schools. IPSIA Leon Battista Alberti (Italy) and Antalya Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi (Turkey) are strongly interested in electronic or mechanical lab equipment. All students in the project are between 14 and 18 years old.
We will have five students meetings at all five partner countries, as well as two management meetings at the beginning and the end of the project.
Our project tries to improve the social, technical and digital skills of all Project participants
* Our Project is multilingual. We will encourage language learning through the use of five languages with our project dictionary.
* Our Project is a motivator. Because of the possibility of travelling, large scale performances, media coverage and our lab experiments students will be attracted to become well educated engineers/technicians.
* Our Project is united. The project actively brings together students from very different parts of Europe and encourages communication in all project languages. We will also include students with low study skills in our project. Teamwork across borders and the use of online Tools, like e-Twinning will increase a variety of skills.
* Our Project is visible and audible. Due to its outcomes the project’s results can be easily disseminated and therefore reach and touch many other students, schools and communities. We will also produce a set of project results, tailored for the use inside schools: We will produce technical lab experiments including proper documentation.
We will also produce multilingual participants presentations with detailed Information about the participating countries/schools including general information, school system, history, music and arts, social life, etc. which will be used throughout our partner schools. They will also be available for the public.
The concept of encouraging students with low study skills is nowadays more important than ever. We will gain experience on how to include these students inside the project.
All project results, photos, videos and lessons learned will be published on e-Twinning and Erasmus Plus project result platform, school websites and local press.

Our project addresses the topics:
ICT – new technologies – digital competences: modern Lab experiments are one of the most useful applications of ICT in near future and one of the best ways to attract students to learn new technologies
Early school leaving, combating failure in education. We will try our best to better understand students with low study skills in order to correct failures in education, open their minds for an open Europe and thus Prevent them from leaving school (too) early.
Having a look at the main targets of Europe 2020, this project provides a huge contribution to a better occupation and less unemployment of the teenagers, a smaller rate of school-dropouts concerning the education-sector and indirectly to a decrease of poverty and social discrimination.
Without this Project most of our students and some of the teachers would have no possibility to meet each other (physically) in different countries and therefore Exchange ideas and learn from each other in terms of creativity and culture.
Without this Project definitely no School or teacher involved in this proposal would have produced the Project outcomes addressed in this proposal.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 155100 Eur

Project Coordinator

HTL Weiz & Country: AT

Project Partners

• IES “BERNAT GUINOVART”
• LYCEE GENERAL ET TECHNOLOGIQUE VOILLAUME
• IPSIA Leon Battista Alberti
• Antalya Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi