"ECO-DRONE: flying robots for environmental monitoring" was born from the need expressed by the partners schools to guide students engaged in technological training courses towards the protection of the environment and with the goal of increasing their technical and soft skills, useful in the future search for a job. The partner schools are active on territories where environmental protection policies are still weak to face the challenges imposed by the new paradigm of sustainable development. The Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale e Liceo Scientifico "Francesco Giordani", Project Coordinator, is located in the city of Caserta, territory which has been experiencing the worst water and atmospheric pollution rates in Italy (Legambiente 2017 data); in Poland there is the highest number of polluted cities at European level; in Istanbul, unsustainable urban development models generated phenomena such as surface water pollution; in Romania, numerous industrial platforms have been classified as "highly polluting areas". The project foresees, through the transnational training activities and related mobility actions, the construction of two drones able to detect levels of atmospheric pollution and water in local territories . The collected data will be included in an environmental monitoring report that schools will disseminate in their communities so as to prompt a deep reflection, both at political and social level, on the health conditions of their tropic and anthropic environments. Project's specific objectives are: - to increase students’ technical skills for the analysis of environmental pollution; - to deep the techniques of data collection and reflect on the right behaviour to adopt in terms of prevention, conservation and remediation; - to apply technological knowledge to the project objectives; - to develop technical skills and soft skills; - to promote a collaborative approach among students from different schools and countries; - to encourage the learning of foreign languages and digital skills; -to promote cooperation between the different education systems and act in favour of a European dimension in training and education. The project will involve 96 students, aged between 15 and 18 (24 for each partner institution). The selected learners will take part in the preparatory phase, in the project activities that will be carried out in each school and in the learning and training phase abroad. The teachers who will take part in the project, both as participants in transnational meetings (2 per school) and as accompanying persons during the mobility (2 per school for each activity), will be teachers of electronics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry. The project will develop: -activities aimed at making learners more aware of the value of their daily actions in reference to the ecosystem; -activities aimed at bringing learners closer to their territories; -activities for the acquisition of technical and professional skills; -activities aimed at developing critical thinking; - creative activities that can stimulate learners’ motivation; - group activities that will favour the acquisition of soft skills. The activities will produce the following impacts: - acquisition of the ability to think and to promote responsible and sustainable behaviour; - strengthening participants’ English language skills; - widening of cultural baggage; -increase of soft skills; - acquisition of technical-professional skills; -empowerment of critical thinking and creativity. The project is designed so that its results can have concrete effects on the improvement of curricular and extra-curricular didactic practices within the schools involved in order to stabilize the environmental economy within educaitonal paths. Furthermore, ECO-DRONES will make the training offer proposed by the robotics laboratories of each partner schools even. In the long term, it is expected that 60% of the students involved in the activities will continue their training by attending university classes and that 40% will use the newly acquired skills for their work placement.
“ECO-DRONE: flying robots for environmental monitoring” began on the 15 of October 2018, and ended on October 14, 2021, with a duration of 36 months. The project was born from the need expressed by the partner Institutes to guide students, engaged in training courses in the technology sector, to protect the environment and the territory with the goal of increasing their technical and transversal skills, useful in the future. looking for a job and acting on their behavior both individually and collectively. "Francesco Giordani" Industrial Technical Institute and Scientific High School, coordinator of the project, is based in the city of Caserta, whose province has always experienced water and atmospheric pollution rates among the worst in Italy (located among the 60 cities Italians not in line with the limits for the protection of health of the WHO in 2021); in Poland, Turek has the highest number of polluted cities in Europe; in Turkey in Kartepe, unsustainable urban development models have generated phenomena such as surface water pollution; in Hirlau in Romania, numerous industrial platforms have been classified as "highly polluting areas". The project, which involved the construction of two drones that, through specific sensors, were able to detect the levels of air and water pollution in the territories where the partner schools insist, due to the blocking of international trade, sanctioned by the Prime Minister's Decree of 4 March 2020 and even earlier by the MIUR note of 23 February 2020, saw a reformulation of the objectives, placing the emphasis above all on the collection of data to be included in an environmental monitoring report. The mobilities took place as follows: - The mobility took place at the "F. Giordani" Institute from 25/02/2019 to 01/03/2019 during which the partner schools started the "ice-breaking" and "getting to know each other" practices ". The participants presented to their colleagues the research works, carried out during the parallel activities, about the pollution conditions that most afflict the territories from which they come. - The mobility S. Kaliskiego w Turku was responsible for organizing the second training activity from 23/09/2019 to 27/09/2019 and prepared the training activities on the collection and detection of data that the students carried out using built drones. Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the third and fourth mobility took place online, after waiting for the year 2021 with the hope that the infections would decrease, Petru Rares Romania organized the third online mobility from 10/05 / 2021 to 12/05/2021. The activities carried out concerned the issue of ecological footprint and what are the measures to be taken to reduce our impact on the environment thanks to https://www.footprintcalculator.org/. l Fevziye Tezcan Mesleki in Turkey from 04 to 06 October 2021 was responsible for the implementation of the fourth mobility and the drafting of a final report on the pollution status of the territories analyzed, summarizing what emerged from the previous mobility. 96 students, aged between 15 and 18, were selected to carry out the activities (24 for each partner institution). The learners identified took part in the preparatory phase, in the project activities that took place in the afternoon in each single school and in the learning and training phase abroad / online. The teachers, 2 per school, took part in the project as accompanists during the mobility, with a preference for teachers of electronics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry, or English to support the students and the other teacher. The project was developed through activities, which encouraged learners to become aware of the value of their daily actions in reference to the repercussions on the ecosystem and group activities that favored the acquisition of transversal skills. The project was conceived and programmed so that its results could have concrete effects on the improvement of curricular and extra-curricular teaching practices of the schools involved, making necessary changes especially as regards raising awareness of the environmental economy within school paths. ECO-DRONES had the merit of enhancing the training offer offered by the robotics laboratories present in all partner schools and of strongly affecting the employment capacity of the learners involved. In fact, in the long term it is expected that 60% of the students involved in the activities will continue their training by enrolling in Specialized Degree Courses and that 40% will exploit the skills acquired to search for a job.