Creating a virtual laboratory for online teaching Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creating a virtual laboratory for online teaching

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Research and innovation; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

With this project, a remotely accessible infrastructure for applied training for scientific research will be created. At the same time, most importantly, online classroom and laboratory design will be developed to increase the desire of students to participate in classes. For this, it will be possible to make applications in the Optimized virtual lab environment.

In this way, it is desired to remove the barriers such as the Covid-19 pandemic in the training of qualified scientists for scientific research. The project offers important outcomes for both students and teachers in practical education.

The partnership includes three foreign partners from Spain, Romania and France. Moreover, a local partner is also included in the project. Each partner plays an important role in implementing the project. The roles of each partner are defined in detail and the aims of the project are listed. In order to reach the stated aims, a strong project management and organization team is designed at organizing partner institution. The team has very important roles to create a visually eye-catching virtual classroom and laboratory, to support academicians during curriculum development, to evaluate the quality of activities, to connect students in webpage platform, to communicate productively with each partner’s ext. First of all, they will organize a contract which will be a commitment among partners is planned to be signed before starting to project activities.

The project will start with an online launching event and it will be followed by the periodical online meetings each month with the key persons including project leaders, teachers, technicians and administrative staffs. Only in the second year representative from partner institution will meet at LTT activities at each university. The latest LTT meeting will be held in organising partner, Marmara University, which will be combined with a science fair. In the last meeting, project results, outcomes will be reported and evaluated.

Development of this virtual classroom and laboratory will create important added value not only to the partners in this project but also to other institutions. This innovative classroom design will have an enormous impact on the quality of education. Especially, science students will have non-stop teaching and this will be a good example in online education. This will trigger the development of new and cheap methods for teaching online.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 232804 Eur

Project Coordinator

MARMARA UNIVERSITY & Country: TR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITE DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIEGNE
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI
• YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA