Joint undergAduate coUrses for smart eNergy managemenT sYstems Erasmus Project

Project Title

Joint undergAduate coUrses for smart eNergy managemenT sYstems

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Energy and resources; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The rapid development of the energy domain with smart devices as well as the recent expansion of renewable power sources have raised significant challenges for the energy industries and the research community in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) domain. In order for the high expectations and the expected impact on the energy market’s practices to be met, the industrial community needs new well-educated professionals, even at the early stages of their life career, that continuously keep track of the latest technological advancements, while Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) need to discover efficient ways to disseminate the expertise developed through research projects and activities across Europe.
This changing environment and context places new demands in terms of education and sets new requirements for university graduates. JAUNTY (Joint undergAduate coUrses for smart eNergy managemenT sYstems) is the beneficial result of transferring state of the art knowledge gained during the implementation of the innovative Horizon 2020 projects SDN-microSENSE and SPEAR – funded under the H2020 program – directly to undergraduate student’s classes. In this project, members of the SDN-microSENSE and SPEAR consortiums, develop distant courses and remote labs in Smart Energy Management Systems (SEMS) for undergraduate students, in order to address the energy power companies’ demands on emerging ICT technologies. The courses are provided through online platforms while students are exercised on smart grid deployments and management, via a newly developed platform for remote labs. All courses and labs are embedded to the participating HEIs curricula as elective courses and students successfully completed the program will be awarded with a Joint Qualifications Certificate on SEMS.
Apart from its main academic content, the rationale behind JAUNTY project is to enable students with fewer opportunities to gain an international study experience without mobility by the so called “ERASMUS from Home”. Under this prism, new challenges are created for the European HEIs to prepare well-aware graduates in terms of their opportunities for further studies and employment on their specific areas of interest.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 281135 Eur

Project Coordinator

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA & Country: BG

Project Partners

• PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS MAKEDONIAS
• Software Company EOOD
• PUBLIC POWER CORPORATION S.A.
• K3Y Ltd
• DIETHNES PANEPISTIMIO ELLADOS
• UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS