Pilot training of students in Belgium under the ERASMUS+ WORK4CE project
From March 11 to 15, on the basis of the Catholic University of Leuven, (Campus de Naer, Sint-Catalin-Waver, Belgium) events were held under theinternational educational project Erasmus+ WORK4CE «International Competencies to ensure healthy and safe work in the 21st century», namely: pilot training of students, as well as working meetings of representatives of partner universities of the consortium to discuss the current results of the project and current tasks for its successful completion this fall.
During the week, students of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic Daryna Kachanska (T-311), Tetyana Solyana (MTE-210), Kateryna Kosinevska (MTE-212sp) studied and worked in international teams together with students from higher education institutions of Belgium, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Azerbaijan.
The topic of the pilot training is «Personal energy-efficient mobility in the future». In accordance with the set goal, the students mastered the materials prepared by the project team using the project’s learning environment, listened to lectures from leading experts from different countries, in particular from Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic University, prof. Halyna Tabunshchik gave a lecture «Digital doubles as a means of increasing the efficiency of electric vehicles.» Under the guidance of mentors (Dean of the Faculty of Transport Oleksiy Kuzkin and Associate Professor of the Department of Software Anzhelika Parkhomenko), the students developed an educational game and completed the research part already at their home universities, working online in distributed teams.
During working meetings under the leadership of the project coordinator Halyna Tabunshchik, with the participation of an external expert on project quality assessment Dirk Van Merode, representatives of partner universities reported on the work for the period March 2023 — March 2024, in particular from Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic University, Assoc. Anzhelika Parkhomenko made a presentation of the achievements of the project team for the past year. They also discussed the issue of organizing the next pilot training of students in Azerbaijan in April 2024, the need to finalize the training materials, their review and electronic publication, as well as the certification of the developed training modules.
The project participants also discussed directions for further cooperation with Bert Lauwers, dean of the engineering faculty of Leuven University of Technology, and Hilde Lauwereys, head of the external relations department of the engineering faculty of Leuven University of Technology, Hilde Lauwereys.
During the meeting with the director of the IDiAL Institute of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Germany) Karsten Wolf, the head of the educational and methodological department of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic Andriy Parkhomenko agreed on the organization and conduct of the Virtual Master’s School based on educational and methodological materials developed within the framework of joint projects, as well as the implementation of the double diploma program between the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic and the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Germany).
Already now our students can take part in the academic mobility program Erasmus+171, under which they will be able to study during the winter semester of the 2024/2025 academic year in Germany and receive a double degree. More detailed information is available in the attached presentation (PDF, 328 KB)
