YOUNG EUROPEAN GENERATION TOWARDS A CONNECTED WORLD WITH THE USE OF DOMOTICS IN HOUSING RENOVATION Erasmus Project

Project Title

YOUNG EUROPEAN GENERATION TOWARDS A CONNECTED WORLD WITH THE USE OF DOMOTICS IN HOUSING RENOVATION

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Migrants’ issues; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project aimed at updating the field of construction studies through a research work on domotics applied to housing. The two schools involved intended to respond more adequately to the evolution of the building trade and attract new learners. During the last few years there had been a shortage of enrolments in the above studies as a result of the huge crisis in the construction sector in Europe. But the decrease of students was due also to their early school leaving afnd dropping out for failure in the studies. So the project aimed at a higher students’ retention in schools by providing better quality in education, updating the curricula, raising skills levels, improving the teachers’ professionalism, delivering employability prospects through interaction with the labour market.
The trans. exchange allowed all participants to compare methods and contents on advanced technological innovations and this contributed to improve the teaching/learning standard of the two schools. In its two years’ life the project carried out an exchange of 24 students + 6 teachers from “Ist.Scol.G.Galilei” (sports science/language/technical high school in Treviso, Italy) with 24 students + 6 teachers from Fondation La Mache (vocational/tech school in Lyon, France) through four visits of 7 days, plus two transn. project meetings (TPMs) of teachers (6 altogether) from F.La Mache to G.Galilei and one TPM from the Italian (3 teachers) to the French partner school. Some 16/17-year-old Italian pupils from the 3rd/4th year of the building course participated in the exchange together with a number of language and sports science students. The former to help with language communication,the latter to experiment an innovative pedagogical model through sports activities for the integration of migrant students in the school courses. The French students (aged 16) from the 1st year of the electrotech class STI2D SIN covered the crafts side of the project work in a complementary way with the academic side of the Italian group. The partner students jointly carried out research work on domotics and environmental sensor systems. In Lyon the well-supplied and highly advanced ICT/electronic labs were used by the project participants in mixed-nationality/ability groups for the experiments and setting up of a model equipped with domotic devices, while in Italy building plans with domotic installations chosen by the students were prepared either through CAD (computer aided) design or by hand. The two partner groups visited some building sites in Treviso to acquire more concrete and advanced technological know-how from observations of the work in progress in ambient assisted living. An important institution conducting a pilot project in co-housing was in fact providing elderly people with network connected homes equipped with domotics. Other educational/cultural/social/sports activities took place and the impact was highly positive. Thus students and teachers brought into play the growth of professional/transversal/multidisciplinary competences as well as personal/content reliant/methodological/language/communication/ICTskills. Social/civic/global mindset skills necessary also to work in a team were encouraged to make it possible for the participants to interact flexibly and adaptively in the new environments/to understand the value of cultural diversities/to welcome the access,participation and performance of disadvantaged learners (also migrants) within the learning community. Tangible products resulting from the LTT activities: the setting up of a model, based on the CAD designs created by the students, equipped with domotic devices that could be commanded also by remote access from Italy and from France through an app on a mobile phone; the production of a set of instructions with texts illustrating, like in an explanatory audioguide visit, the scenarios of persons in handicapped situations created by the students and the working of the automation systems applied to the model; a prototype of an innovative pedagogical model designed for the integration of the migrants in the two schools through sport activities-such model used also in a parallel activity set up by Galilei school for the inclusion of immigrants gave further sustainability to the Erasmus+ project; a DVD with videos showing all project phases, inclusive of CAD designs and interviews given by its participants; a blog used to link the two partner organizations and a website page in each of them to showcase the project activities on their portals.
The additional impact on the stakeholders was: a positive image of vocational/tech studies, a fruitful combination of professional and academic sectors, a dynamic way of learning and teaching, a more effective integration of migrants in schools.
The benefits aquired (that will have an effect also on a longer term): more accurate and updated knowledge, improved skills and competences to meet the European job market; attainment of the transferability and benchmarking potential for the project sustainability.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 66555 Eur

Project Coordinator

IST. SCOLASTICO G. GALILEI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Fondation La Mache