Systems for Aerial Surveillance and Security Erasmus Project

Project Title

Systems for Aerial Surveillance and Security

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

Air traffic control, aviation security, airspace defense of EU and NATO partner countries, maintaining a climate of peace are goals that should be the priority of all interested states in a secure economic and social development. At this time, these functions are performed by the armies of partner alliances mentioned. This however might change:
• With a possible reduction in the number of armies
• With changing of concept on airspace defense and disposal of these tasks to third parties, civil society
• With involvement of civilians by developing their conscience on safety issues in space but also in air transport. Regardless of the categories of the population involved in this system, their professional development still remains the priority number one.
In this context must be taken into consideration that:
• internationalization is felt all work programs,
• technical development has accelerated and systems are part of daily life
• the number of people who want to pursue higher education is increased
• European Union’s involvement in updating curricula in accord with the labor market is increasingly strong.
For these reasons, higher education institutions that prepare graduates in aviation safety must join forces to give common competencies, absolutely necessary to the graduates in the field. The AFAHC and its partners decided to realize a common module of study ” Systems for Aerial Surveillance and Security” that would provide graduates with the skills and qualification that can provide quality services on a labor market where rules and regulations are very strictly.
The project and its goals reached the next target groups:
• Students and teachers from the partner universities
• Beneficiaries of Academy’s graduates, the employers, ministries of defense, civilian labor market, airports.
• Makers, ministries of education, national and international agencies in the field of quality in education.
Identified problems: the inadequacies in curricula in field of aviation, to be completed in the 3 academies and at European level.
Cause: nonexistent of a common module (plan) of study to provide the necessary skills in this specialty graduates
Effect: improper collaboration between specialists in crisis
The project aim was to remove these inadequacies. It followed the project objective: creating a common module of study. Results which was reached:
• Identification the common competencies (skills)
• Creation of the common plan of study and related course.
The result:
•the list of the appropriate mandatory, optional courses according with the skills and the period which such common 3 months or 1-semester module is to be applied
• The e-learning platform and videoconferencing system
For all those listed above were conducted specific activities which respected the submitted diagram of activities. The budget of the project was elaborated in accordance with the Erasmus+ Programme Guide section Strategic Partnerships and was used for general project management and implementation and its implementation:
• Periods of study to achieve the program’s draft
• The teaching / learning intensive periods
• Periods of mobility students / teachers: for testing and evaluation of the designed courses by the means of different possible mobilities
• Team works of the project teams and steering committee’s meetings
• Dissemination activities throughout the project; and good practices were done in each partner’s individual actions, with logistic support from the grant – mainly promotional materials.
• Assessment activities of the the project’s status
• Impact assessment activities for target groups
We can conclude that the development of the project solved, at least partially, differences between the types of study in the 3 academies and provided a list of competencies to the graduates in a wide range, from technical field to that of risk management. All of these, at a high and modern level based on the use of equipment and IT systems and through the developing new approaches for the actions of teaching / learning. In a constantly changing labor market, module development brings a chance of professional alternative for graduates of military academies involved in project to civil environment and helps to promote cooperation, mutual learning activities and exchange of experience at European level. The project was a continuation of collaboration between the academies, a first part of some common modules at different level of study and will continues with other cooperation in the field of education and research. If now the number of students in this field, in the academies involved, is several hundred, the successful projects can bring universities involved with several civil and military universities across Europe which have as their object training experts in air safety and control aircraft in the air. Developing of the module respected the rules of equal rights and environmental protection.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 159786 Eur

Project Coordinator

ACADEMIA FORTELOR AERIENE HENRI COANDA & Country: RO

Project Partners

• AKADEMIA SZTUKI WOJENNEJ
• Vasil Levski National Military University