Digital Innovation and Industrial Processes Facing Challenge of Sustainable Development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Innovation and Industrial Processes Facing Challenge of Sustainable Development

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The DIIP project was initiated by the Alfred KASTLER High School (France).
It consists in evaluating the energy efficiency of its school using innovative tools and proposing solutions to improve its balance sheet. The study concerns a building and / or equipments used during training (heating, lighting, computers and machine-tools).

The main aim is to tackle absenteeism and early school leaving by proposing a project-based learning with the production of real objects.
Technical aims are the use of new technologies, mastery of simulation software and measurement protocols, design and manufacture of parts.

The project was built as a European cooperation project (Airbus, Aérospatiale, ITER, …). The objectives leave a freedom on the means and methods used and the studied topics. This fosters initiative, creativity and a certain amount of emulation. Cooperation is necessary for the production of the parts according to each partners’ skills.

The choice of the 5 partners is made to carry out measurements under various climatic conditions.
KASTLER high school (France, 1450 students) is the initiator of this European partnership which is part of its institutional school’s project.
It offers a range of training from “BAC” with scientific, technological and vocational sections to “BTS” within a “Campus of the Trades”.
STUCOM high school (Spain, 1000 students) has extensive experience in Erasmus projects. It offers training for high school students, but also vocational training and has more than 1,000 students.
HAMAR KATEDRALSKOLE (Norway, 1250 students) offers a great range of courses in the fields of science, economics, social sciences, art and communication. It also has extensive experience in transnational projects.
ERASMO DA ROTTERDAM high school (Italy, 1100 students) also has extensive experience in transnational projects. It offers scientific, linguistic and economic trainings, as well as courses in the fields of sustainable building construction.

The main activities are:
• Creation of a website
• Modeling of thermal losses
• Assessment of the concept of thermal comfort
• Information on sustainable development: interventions, exhibitions, visits.
• Exchanges using IT communication tools, mainly in a foreign language(english).
• Manufacturing of measurement parts.
• Awareness of regulations and safety related to the use of drones
• Measurement of heat losses through the roof.
• Establishment of energy balances.
• Proposing innovative solutions for improving energy performance
• Comparison of innovative pedagogical practices

The groups concerned are students from the vocational, technological and scientific sections. They will have to work together.

We expect pedagogical, technical and cultural results:
• Improvement of students’ involvement in their studies.
• Increased student awareness of training and work opportunities abroad.
• Pedagogical sequences.
• Student appropriation of innovative tools.
• Experience acquired from scientific approach.
• Better mastery of transnational communication tools.
• Results of energy performance of each institution.
• Exhibition on improvement solutions for the efficiency of our institutions.
• Reports containing the results and improvement propositions for the headmasters.
• Web site overview of the project.

The expected impact of the project:
• Increased awareness of sustainable development issues.
• Foster openness to different cultures.
• Better understanding of European citizenship.
• Development of leadership and creativity.
• Boosting of our training.
• Radiation of our schools.
• Development of our partnerships.
• New school / business links.
• Dialogue between the institutional actors and the users of the schools.

In the long term, we would like:
• That sustainable development keeps being the heart of concerns of future adults, technicians or engineers.
• That activities continue and that new aspects of the project be explored based on the innovative equipment used during the project (thermal camera and drone).
• That project-based pedagogy approach be more used in our teaching.
• That teachers continue to develop innovative and ambitious projects.
• That our schools are recognized for their expertise.
• That the collaboration between professional and general school’s sections becomes a common practice.
• That our students be valued in their training.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 85613 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE ALFRED KASTLER & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Stucom SA
• ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE ERASMO DA ROTTERDAM
• Hamar Katedralskole