To cooperate on quality increasing of European education in the area of mechanisation in agriculture is very important. The cooperation leads to several aims: to rise the transparency in educational systems in different states, to regulate different courses by EQF, EQVET, ECVET, to make study abroad simple and to make OVP education more attractive. In such an important branch like agriculture we must look into the future and rise up knowledge about competences and skills necessary for young people to employ themselves. Students´preparation must be in harmony with practice´s needs when we want them to work and study succesfully in Europe. There is coresponsibility for quality increasing and better position of this profession. The project is oriented on these priorities: One of bacis demands on practical education is an ability to react and adapt at the labour market. „Europe wants to become more inteligent, maintanaible, compendious. To reach this goal we need flexible top quality systems of education and practical preparation that interact on changing conditions of the labour market – employer´s demands“. This project is the result of needs coming from employers – new field agromechatronic has been formulated just for these practical reasons. Strenghtening of information and communication technologies in training will lead to transparency of education. There will be applicated rights and duties of the users and providers of the digitalised content. Support of higher coherence between different EU countries is going to ensure cross connection of European education and labour market as well. The project is based on three intellectual outputs. The project can be described in various levels: Increasing the competences of teachers, OVP practical teachers and coaches in tools for measuring and comparison of quality of education. All interested will have higher competence to judge (consider) and understand different school systems. When we want to have better tools for work, there is a need to build e-platform where it is easy to update important documents and to develop Learning Management System for student´s use as well. We should establish the common professional language and have reference material. Nowdays this material does not exist. We have decided to create e-learning platform which can work as a classical book and mainly as a tool for information and communication development. Cross connection among OVP teachers and coaches thanks to digital platform wil make closer team work and better synergy. All partners will contribute with their knowledge and participation at international summits – the teachers, OVP practical teachers and OVP coaches. The material created together will lead to the improvement of language and professional skills. All project results will be after copyright published on the web platform and accesible during all project´s duration and after its end. These surroundings will be accesible for schools of similar branchn, for employers, associations and other organisations dealing with this topic.
The goal was to create educational material for the field of agromechatronics,as well as related fields and lifelong learning, which forms a comprehensive set of knowledge from several areas. Emphasis is given on mutual continuity, connectivity and clarity, what leads to achieving the unified textual and graphic framework, incorporating examples of practice and connected with theoretical knowledge.The implementation of the project was aimed at improving quality and efficiency of teaching process in the professional sphere of education through modern teaching material that reflects current technological development and current trends in the field agricultural technology.The important goal was to design an electronic textbook in such a way that it would also find application in related fields of study and learning and that it would be beneficial not only for students and teachers of specialized subjects, but also for practical teachers, service technicians working in practice and in lifelong learning The important goal was a clear summarization of knowledge from several areas related to the issue of agricultural machinery. By strengthening ICT technologies in teaching and evaluation of procedures based on transparency is ensured.
The Association of Agricultural Equipment Suppliers in the Slovak Republic - AGRION opened the question of possibility to create a new field of study, which reflects the current lack of experts in agricultural equipment in Slovakia. SOŠ Pruské reacted to this situation and in cooperation with partners, especially ŠIOV Bratislava (that participated in the methodological aspect), prepared conditions and the nbackground for the creation of a new field of study. This field would be focused on agricultural technology and at also flexibly responded to technological innovations in the sector of agriculture. The study field of agromechatronics was created, which is nowadays taught at three schools in Slovakia (Pruské, Moldava nad Bodvou and Rimavská Sobota). At the same time, there was a need to create teaching materials for professional subjects, as the existing textbooks did not cover the need for teaching materials, not even in terms of content or modern trends. The goal of the project was the need to create completed educational material that will be clear, interesting for users and it will be available on an electronic platform (e-book). It can be used in related fields of education as well as in the lifelong education of adults.