Electric Urban Mobility Erasmus Project

Project Title

Electric Urban Mobility

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Transport and mobility; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The EUmob project has been successful in offering a more attractive education and training programme; by creating awareness in the younger generation and society about the importance of the new efficient and clean mobility systems in urban environments.

In the Bruges Communicate it was said: “Even those occupations that used to require mostly low-level skills are increasingly requiring medium or even high-level qualifications. This means that people with low (or no) formal qualifications will find it more difficult to find a job in the future.” To cope with this our project has proven to enhance the current educational offer in automotive sector by creating completely new modules in a strategic field: energy sustainability (Europe 2020).

From the project there was a clear need for VET all around Europe to keep updated, but sometimes this is difficult as innovation in industry goes fast and changes in VET systems are slow. The light transport industry is setting aside the derivatives of oil and turning into a cleaner energy, electricity; but VET providers, those who should train the technicians, are arriving late to these changes. With this in mind we needed to create modules to train students about this new technology.

EUmob helped us to create international on-line modules that will led us to improve our offer and at the same time to promote mobility. As a direct consequence of this innovative approach, we created a chain of changes that helped to create synergies between schools and companies – as we plan to collaborate with different companies all along the project.

The main objectives of the project were:
• Create an open-source e-learning platform to learn about urban mobility technology.
• Give comprehensive training to young people, in the area of electric urban mobility, not only focusing on new hybrid and electric engines, but also on their impact on mobility and society.
• Create awareness in the younger generation and society about the importance of new efficient and clean mobility systems in urban environments.
• Promote students/staff mobility.
• Create a list of suggestions of creating working safety rules for the industry.
Centro San Viator (Spain) previous project experience (in “Automobility Expansion Pack” 2010-1-DK1-LEO04-01873″) with SDE (Denmark) and Bridgwater & Taunton College (United Kingdom) let us know that they are highly reliable partners and that they will offer a technological knowledge difficult to find in other VET schools.
Tecnalia Research & Innovation is the first privately funded Applied Research Centre in Spain and one of the leading such centers in Europe. With our 1,475 highly qualified employees, a 110 million Euros turnover and a portfolio with over 4,000 clients, TECNALIA are very interested in collaborating with a trans-European partnership with VET schools, as it is here where future technicians are trained.

Description of activities and methodology
The quality plan (QP) in the project provides the overview of the management structure, role and responsibilities of the project partners. It defines procedures and the monitoring of the progress, quality assurance and overall for the project management.

Intellectual outputs:
Open educational resources.
Research on the importance of “Clean Mobility Systems”.
Recommendations of common safety rules.
Multiplier events:
Local conferences and workshops and a final international conference.
Learning Activities:
Short-term joint staff training events
Long-term teaching or training assignments

The achievement of the general objectives of the project had a positive impact on people and society due to:

• Providing a more attractive education and training program based on ICT methodologies and open educational resources (OER).
• Good practices and awareness on electric urban mobility, aligned with the European project and the EU values.
• Increasing the understanding and responsiveness to social and environmental problems.
• Improving internationalization strategies and reinforce cooperation with partners and companies from other countries.
• Increasing opportunities for professional development.
• Final recommendation about safety regulations for hybrid and electric car in EU.

Potential longer-term benefits
From the project we have trained better technicians which will mean that local/regional companies will be more competitive in the areas of electric/hybrid cars. This has helped professionals of different fields (police, ambulance staff, car mechanics…) to work in a safer environment.

Finally, but no less important we have been successful in increasing the awareness on electric urban mobility for all society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 347850 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centro San Viator & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Syddansk Erhvervsskole
• BRIDGWATER AND TAUNTON COLLEGE
• FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION