Participation of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic students and teachers in the events of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
At the beginning of July 2022, with the support of ERASMUS+ programs, DAAD, as well as the Federal Ministry of Science Education of Germany, several events aimed at developing cooperation in the field of science and education between universities in Germany, Ukraine, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, etc. took place on the basis of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
On July 1-2, 2022, the 13th International Research Conference (IRC) started, in which 136 participants from 18 countries of the world took part in 67 reports. Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic presented two reports:
– Research of the robotic platform iRobot Create 2 (Daryna Moshynets (student of the KNT-511m group), Mariia Tyagunova (associate professor of the Department of Computer Systems and Networks), Halyna Kyrychek (associate professor of the Department of Computer Systems and Networks);
– Content management system for remote laboratory development (Olena Tereshchenko (student of the KNT-211m group), Oleksandr Sokolyanskyi (postgraduate student of the Department of Software Tools), Anzhelika Parkhomenko (associate professor of the Department of Software Tools)).
According to the results of the conference jury, Daryna Moshynets received an award in the Best Poster nomination and was awarded a certificate and a gift.
On July 3-6, 2022, the international Summer School for teachers was held with the support of the ERASMUS+KA1 project WORK4CE «Cross-domain competencies for healthy and safe work in the 21st century» (619034-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP), in which Anzhelika Parkhomenko (associate professor of the department of software tools), Iryna Zelenyova (associate professor of the department of computer systems and networks), Halyna Tabunshchik (professor of the department of software tools) and Tetyana Kolpakova (associate professor of the department of software tools) participated from the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic. The theme of the Summer School for teachers was «Problem-based and challenge-based learning to train basic skills in a project environment.» In particular, the following issues were considered:
– application of problem- and challenge-oriented learning for didactic purposes;
– how to plan, prepare and conduct flexible cross-border projects involving industry for educational purposes;
– how to choose a suitable project case and prepare it for further project work;
– how to build balanced student teams for better training of soft skills;
– how to work with Moodle as an e-learning environment;
– how to apply result-oriented assessment of educational activity.
In parallel with the Summer School for teachers, on July 4-8, 2022, with the support of the ViMaCs (Virtual Master Cooperation Data Science) project, funded by DAAD and aimed at creating a virtual educational and laboratory infrastructure for digital learning and a portfolio of modules in the field of Data Science, the Summer School on «Advanced Perspectives of Data Science» for students worked.
Students of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University, West Ukrainian National University (Ternopil), Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, and Lviv Polytechnic National University took part in the work of the school. Students from Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic studied and worked in teams: Daryna Moshynets (KNT-511m), Olena Tereshchenko (KNT-211m), Hanna Shilo (RT-619), postgraduate students of the department of information technology of electronic means Pavlo Anikin and Olha Kokhan.
During the Summer School for Master’s students, the following topics were considered: Artificial intelligence and data analysis; Business analytics and decision-making; Data collection and processing; Cloud data processing systems; Machine learning operations. Lectures were given to students by an international team of teachers, in particular from the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic: Serhiy Subbotin (head of the Department of Software Tools), Tetyana Kolpakova (associate professor of the Department of Software Tools), Nataliia Myronova (associate professor of the Department of Information Technologies of Electronic Tools). Students had the opportunity to apply their knowledge by solving a case provided by the Blacktron.AI company, and at the end of the week, the results of the teams’ work were presented to company representatives.
On July 6, 2022, in a hybrid format, a meeting of representatives of the consortium of the international educational project ERASMUS+KA1 WORK4CE «Cross-domain competencies for healthy and safe work in the 21st century» took place (619034-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). Project coordinator Halyna Tabunshchik spoke about the current tasks and challenges of the project, including the preparation of an interim report for the European Commission, the purchase of equipment, pilot training and the need to activate the work of project teams.
The fruitful cooperation of students and teachers of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic with European partners creates the basis for further improvement of the educational process and the development of scientific research.
Together to victory!!!