Project Rusos is focused on educating of teachers of secondary and vocational schools in the field of robotics. The topic of robotics was chosen as it is widely used in automotive industry in its cutting edge form and automotive industry is the one most developing and growing industry in the Slovak republic and in Europe as well. However, the businesses suffer a great lack of professional operators of these robotized assembly lines and technologies. The lack is significant at the fresh graduates who graduated vocational and secondary schools. The main lack of skills considers inability to operate, program, control, and handling robotized systems. After the state of the art analysis evaluation there were certain conclusions gained, showing lack of information from the field of robotics among graduates. The lack is caused by low level of education at vocational schools. Low level of education in the field of robotics is caused by poor material and technical facilities at secondary schools as well as by poor level of theoretical and practical experiences of teaching staff. Therefore the staff are not able to pass on important and satisfactory level of education in the field of robotics. Due to above mentioned information the project Rusos is focused on teaching staff and it is aimed to create an educational system Rusos based on ICT platform. Up to date information from the field of industrial and service robotics will be processed and available to the learners in this platform in the form of e-learning lessons. The second part of educational system will consist of virtual laboratory containing 3D virtual models of robotized and automated devices which can be used in the virtual laboratory. On top of that the project Rusos will provide teaching staff of secondary vocational schools (the target group) with review of robotic competitions containing conditions and rules for submission. As these robotic competitions are widely spread and popular with business and educational providers in many countries we want Slovak republic to take part in these activities in greater scale for the purpose of increasing its positive image among other EU countries. There will be seven project partners from three different countries: The Slovak republic, Germany and Poland. Project partners represent and unify wide range of professionals in the field of robotics, production, such as education and a partner of cluster type. The project aims to have an impact and benefits on three areas: the target group – teaching staff of secondary vocational schools, production businesses and students of vocational schools. The target group – teachers – will benefit in terms of gaining the latest information and knowledge from the field of industrial and service robotics, which is now highly popular and attractive giving them the benefit of professionalism. This will give them the chance to be promoted or find a good position at labour market. In the long term point of view the businesses will benefit from having educated graduates of vocational secondary schools. The graduates of secondary schools will posses a high quality education level in the field of programming, operation and handling robotic devices which will give them perfect opportunity to get a job in one of the production businesses which provide high number of vacancies and working positions in the field of automotive production using robotic devices.
The Rusos project was aimed at teaching of teachers at secondary and vocational schools in the field of robotics. The topic of robotics has been selected as a priority since, after analysing the use of robotic systems in production in Slovakia, it was found that at the highest level it is used in the automotive industry. The automotive industry in Slovakia is one of the fastest growing within Europe and one of the most important industrial sectors in Slovakia. However, businesses are struggling with the problem of ignorance of employees controlling these robotic systems. The problem is mainly about young, newly recruited, post-secondary graduate workers who have almost no knowledge of the deployment, programming, management and servicing of robotic devices. After a deeper analysis, it pointed out that the lack of robotic information from graduates is due in particular to inadequate teaching in the field of robotics during high school studies. Many secondary schools are not adequately equipped and cannot provide adequate education to students in this area. Also, teachers in secondary vocational schools do not have sufficient and up-to-date information in the field of robotics and therefore are unable to pass on the necessary information to their students. Therefore, Rusos project created an educational system consisting of an ICT learning platform, where on the basis of e-learning are processed current information from area of industrial and service robotics in 20 lessons, whose basic theses are based on basic and latest knowledge of robotics. The second part of education system are 3D virtual models of robotic and automated devices that are categorized into 7 groups: Kinematic Pairs, Robot Drives, Robot, End Effects, Accessories, Business Models, Production Machines, 48 models are created. In project were 7 partners from three European countries: Technická univerzita Košice, KLASTER AT+R Košice, MANEX,Košice, SŠJH Bardejov, Rumunsko- Universita Politehnica Bukurešť, Poľsko- PIAP Varšava, Politechnika Lubelska-Lublin. Project partners cover a wide range of professional robotics, production, education and cluster partners. The impact of project as well as long-term benefits are in three areas: impact on target group "secondary school teachers", "manufacturing enterprises" and "students of secondary and vocational schools". High School Teachers will benefit from project by gaining latest knowledge and knowledge of industrial and service robotics and completing of their own education in this highly attractive, innovative and demanding field. This strengthens their working position, respectively allowing them a career path and possibility of better employment in the labour market. In the long term, from project also benefited production companies themselves, which will receive new employees from ranks of graduates of secondary and vocational schools prepared for robotics. Also, students at secondary and vocational schools receive high-level robotics training to provide them with the latest information on robot deployment, programming and management, giving them a competitive advantage and a better opportunity to work, as there are many businesses in Slovakia, which in their production use robotic technology, especially in the field of automotive production, which is the most attractive employer.