BRIDGING THE SKILLS GAP: STRATEGIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF DIGITAL, CODING AND ROBOTIC SKILLS FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION, EQUALITY AND ACCESS Erasmus Project

Project Title

BRIDGING THE SKILLS GAP: STRATEGIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF DIGITAL, CODING AND ROBOTIC SKILLS FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION, EQUALITY AND ACCESS

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Access for disadvantaged; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

The development of an innovative strategy for the implementation of modules on robotics and programming at vocational schools is to be regarded as the main goal of Robot4All. Essential features of this strategy are the use of modern but inexpensive software and hardware components and the premise that the modules must be usable without extensive previous knowledge of the teachers and students. In this sense, the strategy guarantees a preferably barrier-free access to the topic of robotics and programming even at vocational schools which do not have the technical equipment in the field of robotics so far.
Another important aspect of the strategy is the orientation of the learning objectives with regard to the requirements of the modern labour market. The strategy was designed to focus on the promotion of key qualifications. In the context of Robot4All, these included digital skills in programming and robotics as well as the promotion of STEM and soft skills.
In order to investigate the educational policy situation of vocational training in connection with information and communication technology and robotics in the participating countries of the project (UK, Germany, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Spain, Romania and Greece) and on a European level. an extensive survey was conducted by all partner organizations at the beginning of the project.
Subsequently, the project developed a set of teaching materials, which were then compiled in the form of a toolkit containing all the teaching materials, as well as additional helpful documents for implementing the strategy in vocational schools.
The toolkit was tested and evaluated in staff training and in two pilot phases at the vocational schools participating in the project.
This resulted in the intended improvement of the digital key competences of the participating school classes as well as valuable feedback for the project consortium regarding improvements of the teaching material.
In parallel, numerous dissemination activities were carried out to make the project known to the primary target group, consisting of teachers and students of vocational education, and to the secondary target group, consisting of stakeholders from politics and education.
The strategy for the sustainable use of the project materials, which was developed in the context of the last Intellectual Output, ensures a long-term benefit of the project results by publishing the teaching material and by offering the possibility to use the online platform of the project free of charge in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 319646,98 Eur

Project Coordinator

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER & Country: DE

Project Partners

• 2 EK Peiraia
• A & A Emphasys Interactive Solutions Ltd
• CIVIC COMPUTING LIMITED
• Fundatia Centrul pentru Dezvoltarea Intreprinderilor Mici si Mijlocii Maramures
• WOMEN IN DIGITAL INITIATIVES LUXEMBOURG ASBL
• CYPRUS COMPUTER SOCIETY
• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA “MARÍA MOLINER”