BIOART Project
586114-EPP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP «Innovative Multidisciplinary Curriculum in Artificial Implants for Bio-Engineering BSc/MSc Degrees» [BIOART]
Innovative Multidisciplinary Curriculum in Artificial Implants for Bio-Engineering BSc/MSc Degrees (BIOART)
Implementation period: 48 months (November 15, 2017 – November 14, 2020)
Grant holder and Project coordinator: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
General Coordinator: Prof. David Luengo
Program: Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education
Role of NU «Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic»: Project partner
BIOART is an international project of the Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education program, aimed at modernizing and internationalizing higher education in the field of bioengineering by developing and implementing an innovative multidisciplinary curriculum in artificial implants for bachelor’s and master’s degree levels.
The project aims to train highly qualified specialists in the field of smart artificial implants, strengthen international and interregional cooperation, and foster innovation in the design, manufacturing, and maintenance of artificial implants.
Project website: https://bioart.iucc.ac.il/
Project Consortium
European and international partners:
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
- Cracow University of Technology (Poland)
- University for Continuing Education - Danube University Krems (Austria)
- Thomas More Mechelen-Antwerpen vzw (Belgium)
- KU Leuven (Belgium)
- Sami Shamoon College of Engineering (Israel)
- Holon Institute of Technology (Israel)
- University Bar Ilan (Israel)
- IUCC - Inter-University Computation Center (Israel)
Ukrainian higher education and research institutions:
- Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University
- Vinnytsia National Technical University
- Pryazovskyi State Technical University
- Donbas State Engineering Academy
- Sytenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
Project Goals and Focus
Special attention is paid to:
- modernizing educational programs in the field of bioengineering;
- developing training courses on artificial implants for bachelor’s and master’s levels;
- creating an innovative academic environment for bioengineering education;
- updating laboratory and educational facilities;
- aligning educational programs with the needs of the labor market and industrial sector;
- developing students’ technical and professional competencies;
- fostering skills in analytical thinking, teamwork, entrepreneurship, presentation, and solving applied engineering problems.
Main tasks: analysis of educational needs and the labor market, updating existing curricula, developing new courses on artificial implants for biomedical engineering, implementing practice-oriented courses using ECTS, modernizing laboratory infrastructure, and establishing a cooperation network at the interregional level.
Project activities:
- Benchmarking, assessment, and strategic plan development;
- Curriculum development. Main BSc / MSc degree in Artificial Implants for Bioengineering;
- Quality management and quality assurance;
- Establishing university-enterprise cooperation;
- Project management.
Expected Outcomes
- I. New courses in artificial implants for bioengineers;
- II. New competencies in artificial implants for bioengineers;
- III. Modernized and new BIONIC laboratories;
- IV. Training courses for academic and non-academic staff;
- V. Student project competition;
- VI. Cooperation network.
Laboratory Facilities at Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University
Within the BIOART project, two new laboratories have been established at the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University:
- Laboratory of Telemedicine and Biomedical Systems;
- Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Virtual Reality.
The laboratories are used to train bachelor’s and master’s degree students, conducting laboratory classes on medical information infrastructure, embedded biomedical systems, wireless sensor networks, machine learning, artificial intelligence, biomedical signal processing, and telemedicine.
Project Team from Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University
Halyna Tabunshchyk, Professor of the Software Tools Department
Anzhelika Parkhomenko, Associate Professor of the Software Tools Department, PhD in Technical Sciences
Vadym Shalomeiev, Vice-Rector for Scientific Work, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor
Events
- Kick-off meeting in Madrid, 7–9 February 2018
- Participation of ZNTU staff in a project training session at the Kraków University of Technology
- First meeting of project participants at ZNTU, 3–5 October 2018
- Second workshop on ‘Signal Processing for Biomedical Engineering’ (28 January – 1 February 2019, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
- International Conference ‘Advanced Methods for the Treatment of Hip and Knee Joint Pathologies’ (25–26 April 2019, Kharkiv)
- Training programme for lecturers from Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University at Danube University Krems (Austria)
- Training programme for lecturers from Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
- Visit to Israel
- Project working meeting (11 March 2020, Catholic University of Leuven, De Nayer Campus, Belgium) »
- Under the ERASMUS+ KA1 programme to implement dual degree programmes for students of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic
- Results of the implementation of the BIOART international educational project
- Report on the dissemination of the results of the BIOART project
- Quality assessment report on the implementation of the BIOART project (2019–2020)
- Quality assessment report on the implementation of the BIOART project (2020–2021)
