The strategic partnership that runs the Erasmus+ Project "Partners in high-tech. European Synergy for a sustainable progress" is composed of five members: 2College Durendael, Oisterwijk (NL),The Whitby High School, Ellesmere Port (UK),ABC Koleji, Ankara (TR),Liceo Statale Gaio Valerio Catullo, Monterotondo (IT ) andIES Santa Catalina de Alejandría, Jaen (ES). The latter is the Coordinating School of the association.General objectives or aims:A) To promote the inclusion of High Technology in the curriculum, and develop competency in Mathematics, Science and TechnologyB) To understand the benefits of EU membership in the development of high technology productsC) To understand that technologic innovation must be sustainable (Strategy Europe 2020) D) To develop a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.Specific objectives:1. To understand the role of robotics in sustainable industry2. To experiment with high technology products.3. To experience fundamental research in Particle Physics and understand the relationship between fundamental research and technological development.4. To research sustainable energy sources and gain first hand experience with wind or tidal power stations.5. To participate in biological investigation such as analysis of vegetable proteins or human DNA.6. To use advances in technology to carry out investigations into historical monuments and gain a deeper understanding of their significance.7. To reflect upon the importance of the high technology in medicine.Over five hundred students between 15 and 17 years of age will participate in the project directly, at least twenty of which are less advantaged participants. We anticipate a wider influence on more than seven thousand students and teachers in the five schools involved.There are both local and international activities integrated into the syllabus. All of them are related to robotics, unmanned aircrafts and their applications, including activities involving such as heritage conservation, computer assisted design, 3D manufacturing and laser cutting, DNA analysis, renewable energy and sustainability, high-tech medical diagnosis, aircraft and rockets. School and university entrepreneurs will show their expertise in motor engineering. Workshops on Particle Physics will be held at the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores based in Seville and The University of Liverpool.A variety of teaching methods will be used even though all common activities have core similarities that identify some of the trends leading to major advances in current pedagogy, i.e. flipped classroom, mobile learning, non-formal and informal learning, inductive, active methodology, collaborative work and peer learning. Special emphasis will be placed on techniques of team and peer work, fulfilling the primary purpose of improving international employability of the participating students.The outcomes will not be time limited, but will continue to develop beyond the two years allocated for the project. Thus, the participating students will benefit in a better employability, increase their awareness of the importance European membership, support sustainability, improve their overall preparation for entrepreneurship and acquire strategies and contacts for international relations.The planned activities will have a direct impact on students, teachers and schools. By using informal, high-quality teaching and learning, students will develop several key competences, including mathematical and technological, together with a positive attitude towards science and technology. They will have improved their technological and scientific vocabulary in both their native language and in English. They will have enhanced their ability to use digital tools for the production, presentation and processing of information. They will also have developed creativity and innovative capacity through research into high-tech products and sustainable manufacturing.Teachers will have developed critical views on their own professional practice aimed at progress and innovation; they will have access to experts in a wide variety of High Tech fields; new methodology will encourage them to take on new roles that are relevant to education today.All schools involved in the project will have enhanced their provision as a direct result of experiencing the exchange of best practices and models of delivery.In the long term, changing teaching methodology and incorporating aspects of the project activities will result in permanent benefits for our schools; the dissemination of our materials will help many others benefit from our project outcomes.
During the draft of the present document, we have considered that, in a world which is ruled by high technology, only the best trained students, those with the specific qualification in technology demanded in the European market, will have good opportunities of work. Most companies strongly demand a high preparation both technical and of languages. Therefore, the best route for students to be trained in this respect begins in projects like this one. The pupils who have taken part in the project have benefited enormously, particularly in terms of their motivation. In addition, their enterprising character already spotted in the selection processes, has been strongly developed. Many of them have continued the exchanges and trips with the students who have met thanks to the project. Besides this, we have insisted on teamwork, social and emotional skills, analysis and resolution of everyday problems as well as control of the international perspective. The general aims that appear in the project (see "Resumen del proyecto", ABOVE) have been fully obtained, especially targets A, C, and D. As for the specific aims which follow the criteria "SMART": specific, measurable, attainable, relevant for the proposed, specific time bound purposes (see Resumen del proyecto", ABOVE), they all have been reached to a really satisfactory extent. Even those ones whose main responsibility belongs to the Turkish partner, have been made possible thanks to the applied measures of contingency (development of their activities in other exchanges, extra activities at the end of the conferences, pooling of the local Turkish activities in the rest of the exchanges, change of place of the last transnational meeting). Each of the schools participants in the project have contributed their experience in different areas: * 2College Durendael: programming of robots, artificial intelligence, worry for the sustainability in general, knowledge on the control of floods and follow-up of the pupils after finishing their studies. * The Whitby High School (technological specialized college): experience in CAD/CAM's areas, impression (printing) 3D, CNC milling, laser cut, digitalization of images and design and innovation.* ABC College: clubs of high technology, writing of IT code, spatial models, laser cut equipment, experience in the areas of 3D impression, creation of operative models in 3D. * Lyceum G. V. Catullo: Works for heritage conservation with CNR. * IES Santa Catalina: Experience in project coordination Erasmus +, experience in linguistics, experience in workshops of robotics and programming. The main target groups of pupils were those of ages in the range of 16 and 17 Some students aged 18 have also been included but none below 15. All of them are students of Baccalaureate or its European equivalents. Even though all activities programmed have been paramount, all participants will bear in mind some notable activities that stand out from the rest, like the ones carried out in the National Center of Accelerators of U. of Seville, the visit to the dikes of Delta Park Neeltje Jansen the Netherlands, the workshops in the Daresbury Laboratory, near Liverpool, the practices with drones in the Campus of the CNR near Rome and the magnificent laboratories of the ABC College in Ankara, just to mention the most relevant events of every country. Of all the expected results in the drafting of the project, the ones which we are most proud of have been our pupils’ performance in the external tests of Access to the University, the best in the history of our institute, the grateful thanks received from parents and pupils of all the partners, the number of teachers who have taken part indirectly in the project and the desire expressed by a higher number of them to collaborate in the following ones, the selfless participation of universities and town halls (only in our centre, those of Seville, Granada and Jaen), and appreciation of educational local authorities. Informal learning has been promoted, workshops of robotics have been created and channels of communication have been opened as well as establishment of relations by institutions and universities that surely will produce future activities of collaboration for our school. In short, the level of impact foreseen in the project has been achieved and even overcome in numerous aspects, most of them are intangible, a great number are measurable however: Our high school is involved in three Erasmus projects + at the moment and it has a wide faculty team dedicated to them. Finally, five more exchange activities financed with resources external to the CE, have been established with the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France and Sweden. Our school has acquired quite a good reputation locally mainly thanks to its European and international activities.