Target area:	Linking Higher Education & Society
Sub-target area:	Human Resource Development
Target countries:	Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy
Duration:	16/10/2017 - 15/10/2019
Partners:	FH JOANNEUM Gesellschaft mbH (FHJ) , Austria TU Ostrava, Czech Republic Hochschule Düsseldorf, Germany Cooperativa Cramars, Italy ISCN, Austria Isis Fermo Solari, Italy BRG Kepler, Austria Pascal Gymnasium Grevenbroich, Germany
Budget line:	European Union, Erasmus+

Project description

ELIC aims to provide a didactical and content toolbox for teachers to increase engineering skills among secondary school pupils to enlarge their interest in technical occupations. A MOOC will equip natural sciences teachers with examples and experiments they can apply directly in class.

 

Located within the objectives of the EC Strategy 2020, ELIC addresses European-wide shortages of qualified professionals and technical job-specific skills. More specifically ELIC deals with skill mismatches, which are causing a shortage of engineering professionals in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and Italy.

 

Main objectives:

§ ELIC seeks to improve and transfer technical skills of natural sciences teachers through the implementation of a MOOC

§ ELIC intends to motivate pupils to engage with engineering – thereby their engineering literacy will improve intrinsically

§ ELIC plans to impact the trainee’s competences directly and it is assumed that 50% of teachers who complete the training will implement more technical science aspects immediately thereafter

§ ELIC aims to adapt secondary school education to the requirements of the modern labour market and to lead to a change in thinking