Due to the climate change occured following great energy consumption,all the countries take measures of diminishing this situation worldwide.One of the methods is the automation of electrical installations in the houses,which results in more than 30% power saving at an average amount of energy used.The project is aimed at developing as well the basic key competences in the students in electrical installations (home automation installations),at an European level but also at training teachers in this field and enabling their access to an updated curricula and to the documentation involved.There is also intended the use of Moodle for implementing and disseminating the project.Purposes:increasing the knowledge of students/teachers in building home automation installations; adapting educational offers of the institutions involved in the project to the new economic conditions involved by labour market dynamics;building professional relationships between the teachers of the schools participating in the project in order to establish employment opportunities for students and to enable their integration on the European labour market;increasing the quality of basic professional training and continuous development through the use of ICT including Moodle.There will be10 (ten) specialized teachers in the field,coming from Romania,Italy,Spain,Germany and Portugal,an engineer from a electrical installations company from Romania (to ellaborate the intellectual outcomes), 5(five) Romanian specialized teachers involved in professional development in the home automation field, 14 (fourteen) Romanian students involved in achieving practical instruction in the home automation field and one ICT Romanian teacher involved in using the Moddle platform.The target groups are:-school students in the electric field of study, both for the applicant and for the other participating organizations;-teachers at the applicant institution who teach in the field of electric and lack both updated curriculum as well as home automation equipment;-foreign teachers who want to improve the existing programs;-participating firm specialists seeking implementation of home automation in Constanța.The project aims to achieve the following intellectual outcomes: a curricula for home automation installations and documentation (resources) related; a general catalogue of home automation system chosen; a practical guideline for home automation in a house; a manual of instructions for the automation devices used for electric wiring in home automation. To achieve these intellectual outcomes, over a period of two years there will be project meetings between the participating countries, multiplication events for the applicant organisation and also the following activities:1.The training activity of 5 specialized teachers from the applicant at the IES M. Catalan, Spain will consist of practical works with equipment designed for home automation installations, as to be able to implement the new curricula of home automation installations2.The learning/ instructing activity of 14 students from the applicant at the IES M. Catalan, Spain will consist in in practicing home automation installations according to the curricula carried out in collaboration with foreign partners, which, by that time, will have been almost completed, so as to be able to observe the impact on students, the difficulty level concerning its implementation and to achieve necessary feedback. (if needed, possible curriculum changes).3.The training activity of an ICT teacher from the applicant at IES M. Catalan, Spain will consist in using the Moodle platform, as to become administrator of the platform in order to perfom project implementation and dissemination.Project impact on:a.students: to ensure the rapid integration of young graduates on the job market; to develop skills an competent knowledge of the home automation installations; b.teachers: to achieve a transfer of knowledge in home automation via the exchange between the institutions participating in the project; to improve teaching performance with immediate effects on the performance of students;c.school: to diversify the educational offer of the participating schools; to increase the quality of technical education for the integration of future graduates on the labour market; d.participating institutions: to provide the possibility of an exchange of experience in home automation; to ensure the partnership on a long-term basis for other European projects; e. local community: to improve the perception of the school.Long-term benefits will be by both professional and personal use for those involved in the project, namely: acquiring new competencies, skills and knowledge in the electric field; acquiering the Europass Mobility certificate; rapid integration of young graduates on the labour market; the establishment of friendship among the participants; enriching knowledge about the culture and the values of the host countries;
Through this project we aimed to develop the key competences of students in the field of electrical installations (installations and home automation) at European level,but also the training of teachers in this area by putting at their disposal some updated programs alongside with the corresponding documents.There has been used the Moodle platform for implementation and dissemination of the project and the project's goal was to offer young graduates of technical education the chance to be offered a proper and suitable job in the area.The project had as its objectives: to adapt the education of the participating schools involved into the project to the new economic conditions imposed by the dynamics of the labour market trades; the achievement of professional ties between the teachers from the participating countries in order to determine the work opportunities for the students and their integration on the labour market; to increase levels of knowledge of the students/ teachers regarding the importance of home automation installations; to increase the quality of initial and continuous formation and training through the use of ICT(implementation and use of Moodle platform). The organizations involved were:1.Cooperativa de Ensino de V.N.Famalicão,CRL-E.P Cior- Portugal;2.School I.E.S Miguel Catalán, Coslada, Spain;3.Staatliche Berufliche Oberschule Schwandorf - Germany;4.I.T.I.S G. ARMELLINI-Rome,Italy;5.WATT UNIT S.R.L -Constanta, Romania.The chosen partners have had rich experience in the attainment of home automation installations,have been interested in completing this project,because home automation systems are used differently worldwide,and they have wanted to analyse and choose the best solutions for the implementation of home automation installations in their own curriculum. The target groups identified were:students of 10th and 11th grades in the electrics field,for both the coordinator as well as for the other educational organizations involved;the teachers who teach in the coordinating organization in the fields of electrical/ automation and who lacked updated programs for their work;foreign teachers who wanted to improve the existing programmes in the field;the specialists of the participating company who wanted the implementation of home automation installations in Constanta.There have been done four intellectual products:1.a curriculum in the field of home automation installations and of the documents (materials) related to the work (at 11th grade);2. a general catalogue of home automation system chosen;3.a directory of practical training for installation of home automation of a house with two bedrooms;4.a manual of instructions for the devices used in automation systems with home automation installations.In order to achieve these intellectual outputs during the two years there have been six meetings between the participating countries of the project,two events of the applicant and three training activities. Six project meetings, as follows:the first and last meeting of the project took place at the headquarters of the Coordinator from Romania;the other four meetings were held at the participating organizations from Spain, Italy, Germany and Portugal;Two of the multiplication events were held at the headquarters of the Coordinator.The first multiplication event was held at end of the first year of the project,on July 4th, 2017,under the title:E1:"The need for the implementation of home automation installations in technical and vocational education from Romania";The second multiplication event occurred at the end of the second year of the project, on July 4th, 2018,under the name:E2:"Auxiliary materials fot the curriculum of home automation installation".These events were attended by specialists from Romania interested in implementation of home automation installations in everyday practice. Three training activities: 1.formation of 5 teachers in the technical field from the applicant institution at IES Miguel Catalan,which consisted of practical works with equipment designed for home automation installations,aimed at being able to implement the new curriculum for home automation installations; 2.formation of 14 students from the applicant institution at IES Miguel Catalan,who in working team with Spanish students have actually completed a home automation installation according to the curriculum conducted in collaboration with the external partners,noting aspects such as the impact on students,the difficulty in achieving the task and receiving the needed feedback. 3.formation of a computer scientist from the applicant institution at IES Miguel Catalan,which consisted in studying the use of Moodle platform,who became the administrator of the platform in order to implement and disseminate the project. The teachers and the students who were involved in the project had both professional and personal use of the following benefits:acquiring new competencies in the home automation;obtaining the EM.