AMOR - Autonomuous Mobile Robot is a project (2017-2020) focusing on the students´ teams effective cooperation at home schools throughout the school years and during international short term students´ workshops in the Czech republic, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. During the project, students´ teams with VET teachers support from participating VET organisations design and develop a robot. There will be five workshops realized during the project and totally 80 technical VET students´mobilities will be carried out in the workshops. Students are from 2nd and 3rd grade of their studies and project-based collaboration, peer-learning are a great challenge for them. This would enable development of personal professional and intercultural skills within relatively limited length of exchange. Participants will not only discuss and develop their project work connected with robot but they will also meet with real life in individual countries through discussions with other students not directly involved in the project, visits of cultural and sports events and sights. The final common products should be technical drawing, manual and an autonomous mobile robot suitable for movement in difficult terrain with sensors of CO, CO2 and other Gates, with thermocameras and movable arms that could take something, like a soil sample for later analysis and insert the sample into the robot's body. The process in the project is quite a long, but necessary to include all workshops and common work in practice. All partners are integrated on it. During the project totally 20 international technical VET teachers participate on consulting/monitoring/teaching, evaluation and peer-learning during workshop realizations. As all the participating organizations are VET institutions with similar fields of study, they will stay in contact after the project is completed. They will find opportunities for new projects and cooperation either for students or for teachers because learning from mutual visiting, exchanging experiences and good practice is a good way how to improve knowledge and skills and develop intercultural understanding and gain new perspectives.
AMOR - Autonomuous Mobile Robot was a project (2017-2020) focused on the effective cooperation of student teams in home schools during the school year and during international short-term student workshops in all partner countries. During the project, student teams with a VET teacher supported by participating VET organizations designed, developed and manufactured a robot. Students were from the 2nd and 3rd years of studies of different branches – mechanical engineering, electrotechnics, IT. Project cooperation and peer-learning were a big challenge for them. This form of cooperation contributes to the development of personal, professional and intercultural skills in a limited exchange time. During workshops participants discussed and developed their project work related to the robot, exchanged experiences and ideas, but also enjoyed the opportunity to meet real life in each country through discussions with other students who were not directly involved in the project, visits of companies using robots in their production programs, participation in cultural and sporting events. The process in the project was long, but it was necessary to include all workshops and routine work in practice. All partners have been integrated into it. During the project, a total of 20 international teachers of technical education and training participated in consultations / monitoring / teaching, evaluation and mutual learning during the implementation of the workshop. The end product in each partner organization is a technical drawing, manual and autonomous mobile robot. One workshop was planned in each partner country, ie a total of five workshops, each with the participation of four students and one teacher. Unfortunately affecting COVID 19 it was not possible to hold the last workshop in Finland, so only Finland completed all the mobilities. We agreed with the partners to implement the activities of the last workshop virtually using e-mail communication, Skype and Facebook. This communication was also more difficult because all participants had to use their home equipment because the schools were closed. Ing. Matoušek – teacher of SPŠT Třebíč designed a track for testing robots and each team uploaded their experiment and posted it on Facebook. There are also manuals and drawing documentation for the robot (in this way we virtually carried out a short-term activity). The fulfillment of the goals is evident from the experiments on the test tracks. As all participating organizations are vocational education and training institutions with similar fields of study, they will remain in contact after the completion of the project. We seek and discuss opportunities for new projects and collaborations for both students and teachers, as learning from each other's visits, exchanging experiences and best practices is a good way to improve knowledge and skills and develop intercultural understanding and gain new perspectives.