INSYSTED – Integrated System for European Digital Learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

INSYSTED – Integrated System for European Digital Learning

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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

CONTEXT: Available technologies and online educative environments can effectively support internationalization processes in higher education involving larger groups of students and, potentially, also those students that do ‘not have the means or the inclination to study abroad’. An integrated approach in the use of various digital tools and technologies together with different teaching and learning methodologies can support the development of new strategies in mobility programmes, allowing also those students not inclined to go abroad to take advantage of international universities networks. The idea of the INSYSTED project is to experiment a new, integrated model that sees the blend among serious games, MOOCs and Learning Communities with the objective to offer a tool with a high grade of modularity and integration in pre-existing ecosystems.
OBJECTIVES: The INSYSTED project addresses the needs of various target groups on multiple levels. It aims to enhance the quality of education and teaching in the Management/Industrial Engineering Area in a European context through the creation of an innovative, integrated and replicable learning digital and non-digital environment; enhance the skills and competences of professors and students in the usage of complex digital learning tools and their ability to interact digitally with peers and professionals in the learning community; support the development of a skills set able to respond to the needs of graduates that prepare for an integrated, increasingly complex European labour market. The cooperation with industry partners that accompany the development of the integrated digital learning model will ensure that the learning outcomes and acquired skills fit the needs of the industry. The project also foresees a deeper cooperation at European level in the co-creation of high quality digital contents and tools through a better synergy among academic staff, e-learning services and International Relations Offices.
PARTICIPANTS: The project partners represent some of the most important Universities of Technology in Europe within the framework of the strategic partner network Alliance4Tech. INSYSTED will involve stakeholders at the partner universities relevant in the field of industrial engineering, digitalization and e-learning. They will be included in a reflection of the European and national debates and research regarding e-learning possibilities with special attention to European industrial engineering. To support the development and dissemination of the outputs altogether five associate partners from industry and university networks will be involved. The partnership is planning two sets of staff and student mobilities where trainings of integrated framework and the e-learning platform will take place. This will provide the opportunity of involving teachers and students not only on a ‘representative’ scale but in larger numbers, and in their original role. As for each training every partner university will delegate three staff members and ten students as participants.
RESULTS: The partnership expects results at multiple levels. Teaching staff in the four partner institutions will be provided a “ready-to-use” toolbox, including the 3-pillar integrated pedagogical framework, its e-learning tools and a complete training material, supported by trainings and webinars, for implementing an innovative pedagogical approach in the industrial engineering curriculum. Students can choose from different kinds of content formats and modalities and mix them in the best way that fits their own learning style. They will see a development of different competences, some specifically linked to interaction with peers and faculty, communication, collaboration, conflict management or interculturality; others linked to the experience as a whole, such as self-organization, entrepreneurship, digital literacy, creativity, flexibility or technological abilities necessary to use tools and devices as well as navigate online environments.
IMPACT: The framework and e-learning tools will be firstly implemented at the Industrial Engineering departments of partner institutions, which will apply the integrated model in their didactics. The innovative pedagogical approach that combines digitalization and internationalization and involves industry partners will prepare graduates better for the European labour market and will make the industrial engineering curriculum more attractive. Due to the high potential for transferability and the envisaged widespread dissemination activities the outputs will be later used at other universities and will be easily integrable in existing structures supporting future sustainability and transferability to other disciplines. Ideally, this will lead to the „Integrated System for European Digital Learning“ being used in several disciplines in a growing number of universities in Europe and beyond.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 406775 Eur

Project Coordinator

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN & Country: DE

Project Partners

• POLITECNICO DI MILANO
• CENTRALESUPELEC
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON