Track Your Atmosphere: Enhancing Digital and Environmental Competences by Developing Open Educational Resources for Technical VET Erasmus Project
General information for the Track Your Atmosphere: Enhancing Digital and Environmental Competences by Developing Open Educational Resources for Technical VET Erasmus Project
Project Title
Track Your Atmosphere: Enhancing Digital and Environmental Competences by Developing Open Educational Resources for Technical VET
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 2017
Project Topics
This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Environment and climate change
Project Summary
The use of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS, e.g. GPS, Galileo
etc.) has become an everyday tool for determining our position on
earth and in space. GNSS also allow measuring the atmospheric water
vapor which is the most important gas for weather prediction and
greenhouse effect. In the TRYAT-project we create learning materials
on how to apply the satellite signal to the sensing of atmospheric
water vapor and how to make use of this technique. We want to empower
vocational education and training (VET) learners in the fields of
physics, electronics, electrical engineering, geo- and environmental
engineering and IT. Therefore, we have developed a transnational
partnership in order to promote science and innovation.
In our project we use three GNSS stations which have been installed on
the roofs of VET centers in France, Italy, and Germany. We let VET
learners analyze data from GNSS networks worldwide which are
collected and processed by the German Research Centre for Geosciences
(GFZ), University of Naples and Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e
Vulcanologia (INGV). We explain vividly and clearly how to calculate
the wet component of the atmospheric delay from GNSS and
meteorological measurements, and why it is important to compute the
amount of the precipitable water vapor and to study its influence on
weather and climate.
We also motivate VET learners to use their smartphone and low-cost
electronic to enhance their digital competence and improve the skills
for experiments in physics and competencies in informatics and
electrical engineering. They confront the high-end professional data
with their own environmental measurements and become part of a
citizen-science network.
The selected project partners have contributed and exchanged particular
know-how and expertise in the fields of education, research, training
and curriculum development. A broad range of Open Educational
Resources have been elaborated (Intellectual Outputs IO1 – IO5).
EU Grant (Eur)
Funding of the project from EU: 332677,21 Eur
Project Coordinator
Lise-Meitner-Schule & Country: DE
Project Partners
- Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale Leonardo da Vinci
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II
- HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM POTSDAM DEUTSCHESGEOFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GFZ
- ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA
- Lycée Saint Cricq