BLUE TEmPlATE – BLUE TEch PArTnership Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

BLUE TEmPlATE – BLUE TEch PArTnership Education

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Research and innovation

Project Summary

The aim of the project was to create an innovative School-Job activity in order to build an ideal bridge between secondary education and the world of work, which can be exploited in two-ways mode, by the main actors of production companies, research bodies and public administrations and by those responsible for higher education of young people and also by the students themselves.
The project was almost completely implemented even though in March 2020 due to the Corona Virus pandemic the schools were closed and only a few activities could be carried out online.
Analysing in detail the project progress, the operation of the partners network was fundamental: even remotely, everybody collaborated in the necessary documentation preparation as well as in organising logistics and time to start the activities for the main beneficiaries: the students.
The project staff was composed by Headmasters and teachers of the three partner schools, professors and researchers of the University of Cartagena, Senior Experts in the design and implementation of European Training, Research and Development projects, Experts in communication and information activities on the network and especially the experts of the Ligurian Cluster of Marine Technologies for the network of contacts with companies and organizations in the maritime sector, for a total of about 70 people involved. A total of 123 students were involved in the project, chosen among those of the fourth year of each partner Technical High School.
The project was framed in a sector of activity closely linked to the vocational characteristics of the high school areas involved: the maritime sector, in which it is easy to include the shipbuilding and pleasure craft industries, with all the local manufacturing industries, the research centres responsible for the control and monitoring of marine environments, the port authorities for marine logistics.
The first project activities were the realization of individual training projects to start the School-Job path considering the needs of morphologically and economically similar territories, characterized by activities related to port logistics and ecosystem protection. This led to the creation of the three specialist courses foreseen by the project: Mechanics, Electronics and Precision Electronics, Environmental Risk Monitoring, Marine Logistics, carried out with great commitment by both students and human resources involved: teachers, company experts and researchers from the University and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Portovenere. In the third year, another specialist training course was carried out for the construction of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), remote-controlled submarines used in the analytical field for monitoring marine environments, obviously including a series of innovative solutions in the field of mechatronics and environmental analysis.
A considerable impact on both students and teaching staff of the schools arose from the participation in the transnational exchange activities: participants had an experience of international exchange of knowledge, methodologies, employment opportunities and intercultural relations.
A student from the Barcelona Nautical Institute, after the exchange in Italy, made arrangements with a company in La Spezia, during the first student exchange, to carry out a training internship at the end of the school year: therefore, he returned later to Italy for its internship. The Capellini Sauro Institute renewed some workshops, taking as its starting point the visit to the Lycée Rouvière of Toulon and the French workshops. These were obviously unforeseen and unforeseeable results, but important in underlining the enormous importance of communication and collaboration in a small European network.
The teaching programmes, the training projects, all the preparatory documentation for the School-Job activities and all the evaluation forms of the activities and skills acquired have been included on the Erasmus results platform and on the partners’ websites, also in a format that can be edited and downloaded free of charge by anyone, with the aim of favouring other schools and the world of work that would like to implement and experiment this type of didactic approach for a real connection to the world of work and give greater strength to a vocational activity that should be more present within the institutional activities of a school.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 411168 Eur

Project Coordinator

DISTRETTO LIGURE DELLE TECNOLOGIE MARINE SCRL & Country: IT

Project Partners

• I.I.S. “Capellini Sauro”
• UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE CARTAGENA
• LYCEE POLYVALENT ROUVIERE
• ECOPLANET
• CIRCLE SPA
• Institut de Nàutica de Barcelona