Drones beyond barriers, safely! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Drones beyond barriers, safely!

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

“Drones beyond barriers, safely!”, is a KA2 project regarding Exchanges of Good Practices. Four European Aviation Schools of three countries (Italy, Spain and Turkey) have been involved. Each school had different curricula, which has been interesting to know. This KA2 has used Intercurricular and Transcurricular methodology to work on a very actual and complex concern: Drones (RPAS). In the next 10 years civil drones could be worth 10% of the aviation market. That’s 15 billion euro per year. Drones manufacturing may create up to 250,000 European jobs by 2050. The use of drones must be respectful of citizen’s security and privacy, but at the moment it is not properly like this. The European Parliament and the 27 EU Member States is adopting a Commission’s proposal published in May 2019. The Commission has the goal of delivering a fully functional drone service market in 2019. Our project has had the goal to study about the contents of the new regulation adopted by the European Commission on the 24th May 2019 and whose “Executive Director Decision 2019/021/R” has finally arrived on 9th October 2019 and which gives us the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2019/947. As this ‘Rules and procedures for the operation of unmanned aircraft’ are still a work in progress, our schools will be continuing working on “The White Book of ruling, designing, producing and safely flying Drones” on E-Twinning and the dedicated web site which will became a didactic platform during the next month and the results will be updated. The dissemination of the “White book” points to educate young generations for a correct use of “Remotely Piloted Aircraft System”. Our main objective has been to give our partnernship students, thanks to the help of teachers and experts the competences to design a drone’s structure, build its part with 3D printers, assemble it, fly it and test it (each drone with different purposes). Also Teachers have improved sharing their best practices, methodologies and collaborative approaches. Many project activities have been based on high technology and ICT. All the results have been presented at an important national Science fair in Seville in May 2019. Carrying on this activities students have practiced both distance co-learning using information and communication technologies such as collaborative workspaces, live streaming, videoconferencing, social media, etc. and partecipating at short-term exchanges of groups organised between schools where they have acquired and improved skills not only in the topic or subject area on which the project was focused, but also in terms of teamwork, intercultural learning, social relations, planning and undertaking project activities, using information and communication tecnologies, practicing foreign languages and increasing their motivation towards language learning.
During the project there have been classes at each school, e-Twinnig classes, conferences, workshops, scientific festivals which have brought first in November 2018 to the assembling of a “Standardized Drone” at Istanbul LTTA and then to four “Custumised Drones” presented at the first Erasmus Plus “Drones Olympics” in Seville LTTA in May 2019.
The attended results apart the above mentioned products has brought together students and teachers in order to encourage an efficient and multinational teaching of specialist topics; has enabled students and teachers to work together in multinational and multidisciplinary groups and so benefit from special learning and teaching conditions not available in a single institution, and to gain new perspectives on the topic they study; has allowed teachers to exchange views on teaching content, new curricula approaches, to test innovative teaching methods which are are already becoming “newly devised curriculum”. Projecting and assembling our drones have been involved also the disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Our students have improved their education about the correct use of drones and they will disseminate this practice in their regions. The project is giving us great result in reducing early school leaving. In fact we have involved both the most motivated students who have improved their curriculum aimed achievements, and the low motivated ones in order to avoid school drop-out from them and also from other students who have taken them as an example. Now we’re already putting the basis for a long term benefit of these results: our school is aiming to become test center for RPAS”, we have activated a Group of Research for RPAS; we have applied for the activation of a Post diploma course for “Constructors and Conductors of RPAS” and we’re also working on an Artificial Intelligence Network for Environment Monitoring with drones. To achieve the above objectives all the partners have used the E-Twinning platform and the dedicated web-site; online repositaries and socials have permitted faster comunication and sharings.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 89909,31 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO TECNICO COMMERCIALE”G.P. CHIRONI” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• GIP Auvergne Campus des Métiers et des Qualification Aéronautique
• ASOCIACION CENTRO BENEFICO ADA
• Sultanbeyli Sabiha Gökçen Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Kayseri Merkez Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Zespol Szkol Mechanicznych w Rzeszowie