CUSTOMIZABLE ERASMUS DRONES Erasmus Project

Project Title

CUSTOMIZABLE ERASMUS DRONES

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 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Nowadays, the development of every complex project requires the collaboration between multiple organizations. We have a significant example in the aeronautical industry where, since the beginning of the market studies to product selection, schedule of the project, design, manufacturing and delivery to customer, it is required the incorporation of multidisciplinar and international teams.
Like in the real world, in our project, the participants had to beat the challenges to reach the targets during the development of the program, including human factors (laguages differences, intercultural behaviours and labour habits, different timetables and ways of communications, etc) and, on the other side, technological factors (different standards, tolerances, teams, software tools) during the different phases of the project.
The scenario will be a reproduction small-scale works and ways of enterprises within the framework of European cooperation, both between EU countries as relations with other countries outside this framework.
The main objective is to initiate the students (and teachers) in projects that have a clear objective of technological innovation and international cooperation between multinational and multidisciplinary work teams.

Precisely, the objectives and results of the project can be summed up in 3 points:

– Technical objectives: learners have created 3 drones, one for each partner school, and a technical customization has been made by each group on their drones. These activities have been carried out in constant cooperation between the three partner schools, especially during the mobility periods when the teams collborated to reach their common goals. Technical difficulties were met and made the students deal with the challenges of a transnational project, with a high level demands. Indeed the drones must be able to fly in good conditions at the end of the project.

– Distance communication tools and language skills: both students and teachers reached a better level in English, which is the common language for the project but also in the aeronautic field. Distance communication tools enabled regular exchanges in the frame of the project, in spite of technical and schedule issues, which made it sometimes difficult.

– Enhancement of the quality of VET: the project contributed to reinforce the quality of the school subjects and the motivation and self-confidence of the students in vocational schools. This is especially important as VET is sometimes depreciated in the participated states.

The direct participants to the project were :
– Flora Tristan vocational school / AEROCAMPUS Aquitaine (France) : 36 students of 1st and 2nd high school years, learning aeronautics (systems and avionics), in English European section, plus their teachers and administrative staff.
– Sultanbeyli vocational school (Istanbul, Turkey) : 36 students learning aeronautics, in English European section, plus their teachers and administrative staff.
– Leonardo da Vinci vocational school (Viterbo, Italy) : 36 students of last year of high school, in digital and aeronautics sections, their teachers and administrative staff.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 87425 Eur

Project Coordinator

LP FLORA TRISTAN & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Sultanbeyli Sabiha Gökçen Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• ITT LEONARDO DA VINCI