Unidos en la Alta Tecnología. Sinergia europea para un progreso sostenible Erasmus Project

Project Title

Unidos en la Alta Tecnología. Sinergia europea para un progreso sostenible

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

During the draft of the present document, we have considered that, in a world which is ruled by high technology, only the best trained students, those with the specific qualification in technology demanded in the European market, will have good opportunities of work. Most companies strongly demand a high preparation both technical and of languages. Therefore, the best route for students to be trained in this respect begins in projects like this one. The pupils who have taken part in the project have benefited enormously, particularly in terms of their motivation. In addition, their enterprising character already spotted in the selection processes, has been strongly developed. Many of them have continued the exchanges and trips with the students who have met thanks to the project. Besides this, we have insisted on teamwork, social and emotional skills, analysis and resolution of everyday problems as well as control of the international perspective.
The general aims that appear in the project (see “Resumen del proyecto”, ABOVE) have been fully obtained, especially targets A, C, and D.
As for the specific aims which follow the criteria “SMART”: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant for the proposed, specific time bound purposes (see Resumen del proyecto”, ABOVE), they all have been reached to a really satisfactory extent. Even those ones whose main responsibility belongs to the Turkish partner, have been made possible thanks to the applied measures of contingency (development of their activities in other exchanges, extra activities at the end of the conferences, pooling of the local Turkish activities in the rest of the exchanges, change of place of the last transnational meeting).
Each of the schools participants in the project have contributed their experience in different areas:
* 2College Durendael: programming of robots, artificial intelligence, worry for the sustainability in general, knowledge on the control of floods and follow-up of the pupils after finishing their studies.
* The Whitby High School (technological specialized college): experience in CAD/CAM’s areas, impression (printing) 3D, CNC milling, laser cut, digitalization of images and design and innovation.* ABC College: clubs of high technology, writing of IT code, spatial models, laser cut equipment, experience in the areas of 3D impression, creation of operative models in 3D.
* Lyceum G. V. Catullo: Works for heritage conservation with CNR.
* IES Santa Catalina: Experience in project coordination Erasmus +, experience in linguistics, experience in workshops of robotics and programming.
The main target groups of pupils were those of ages in the range of 16 and 17 Some students aged 18 have also been included but none below 15. All of them are students of Baccalaureate or its European equivalents.
Even though all activities programmed have been paramount, all participants will bear in mind some notable activities that stand out from the rest, like the ones carried out in the National Center of Accelerators of U. of Seville, the visit to the dikes of Delta Park Neeltje Jansen the Netherlands, the workshops in the Daresbury Laboratory, near Liverpool, the practices with drones in the Campus of the CNR near Rome and the magnificent laboratories of the ABC College in Ankara, just to mention the most relevant events of every country.
Of all the expected results in the drafting of the project, the ones which we are most proud of have been our pupils’ performance in the external tests of Access to the University, the best in the history of our institute, the grateful thanks received from parents and pupils of all the partners, the number of teachers who have taken part indirectly in the project and the desire expressed by a higher number of them to collaborate in the following ones, the selfless participation of universities and town halls (only in our centre, those of Seville, Granada and Jaen), and appreciation of educational local authorities. Informal learning has been promoted, workshops of robotics have been created and channels of communication have been opened as well as establishment of relations by institutions and universities that surely will produce future activities of collaboration for our school.
In short, the level of impact foreseen in the project has been achieved and even overcome in numerous aspects, most of them are intangible, a great number are measurable however: Our high school is involved in three Erasmus projects + at the moment and it has a wide faculty team dedicated to them. Finally, five more exchange activities financed with resources external to the CE, have been established with the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France and Sweden. Our school has acquired quite a good reputation locally mainly thanks to its European and international activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130441 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES SANTA CATALINA DE ALEJANDRIA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• de Vereniging Ons Middelbaar Onderwijs
• ABC Lisesi
• Liceo Statale Gaio Valerio Catullo
• The Whitby High School