Training week and coordination meeting for the WORK4CE project
On March 27-31, a training week and coordination meeting was held at the De Nayer campus of the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, as part of the international educational project Erasmus+ KA2 “Cross-domain Competencies for Ensuring Healthy and Safe Work in the 21st Century” (619034-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). Representatives of 9 partner educational institutions from Germany, Belgium, Azerbaijan, the Basque Country and Ukraine took part in the event. Zaporizhia Polytechnic National University, which is the grantholder of the project, was represented by: project coordinator, professor of the Software Department Halyna Tabunshchyk; Vice-Rector for Research Vadim Shalomeyev, Dean of the Faculty of Transport Oleksiy Kuzkin and Professor of the Department of “International Tourism and Economics” Andriy Karpenko.
The training week program was intense and eventful. Each of the consortium participants reported in the format of a seminar on the current status of work on the development of digital educational materials for the project modules (https://old.zp.edu.ua/?q=node/8367, work4ce.eu/) and presented a lecture based on the use of these materials for the consideration of colleagues. The head of the Department of “Software” Serhiy Subbotin gave a report on the development of educational materials for the module “Data Analytics for Work” in a remote format. Those present had the opportunity to assess the quality of the developed module in accordance with international standards https://oscqr.suny.edu/standard1/, coordinate the work of communities of practice and provide useful advice on improving the developed training materials taking into account the requirements of the modern labor market.
During the coordination meeting chaired by project coordinator Halyna Tabunshchyk and Professor Peter Arras (Catholic University of Leuven), the participants presented and discussed the results of the work for the current reporting period regarding the project team members from each educational institution, conducting pilot training on the developed training materials in partner institutions, purchasing and sharing laboratory equipment and software, disseminating information about the project and accreditation of the developed training modules. An independent assessment of the quality of the training materials was carried out by an external expert, engineer van Dirk Merode, and he provided his recommendations on the visual identification of the program and project in the materials.
The organizers offered the participants of the training week an interesting lecture by Professor Jan Ivens (Catholic University of Leuven) on the topic “The Importance of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Engineers”, a tour of the De Nayer campus and a sightseeing walking tour of the city of Mechelen (Belgium).
The training week and the project coordination meeting contributed to the strengthening of creative ties between the participants of the international consortium and confirmed the successful implementation of the WORK4CE project.
