The use of virtual instruments in engineering education

AbstractVirtual instruments are used nowadays for measurement and control, but also as educational tools for students, being well accepted and stimulating innovation in the process of exploring the real world. It leads to discover interrelations, the phenomena are easier undersold and theory is better assimilated. The tool can be used in real laboratories as well as in virtual laboratories, constituting a support for self-learning or distance learning. This article presents how virtual instruments can be used in engineering education, with examples from our Vibration Laboratory, together with a qualitative research regarding the perception of students to this issue

Work Package 4 - Focus Group Overview. Grundtvig Multilateral - EU Lifelong Learning Programme. Project Number: 538955-LLP-1-2013-1-UK-GRUNDTVIG-GMP

During the first year of the RECOVEU project, the Consortium collected data regarding the policy and practice in the field of addiction treatment, education and social reintegration in all five countries.One of the major issues confronting policy makers and practitioners in the field of addiction and recovery is the lack of specific data concerning the access of adults in recovery to learning resources that enable them to recover and re‐integrate into society. Consulting with both adults in recovery and service providers will support awareness of the issues prevalent in recovering addicts’ lives and lead to the development of adult education which is responsive to the specific barriers this may raise. This will ensure that the adult education curriculum developed during the project will meet the needs of people in recovery, thereby increasing the potential for successful engagement and retention. Work Package 4 – Focus Group Phase has supported an understanding of the part played by adult education in an individual’s recovery process and provides a way in which people in recovery could be supported to engage in adult education opportunities. Each of the five partners delivered three to five focus groups, either with service users or service providers. The total number of participants was 92 (44 service users and 48 service providers), with a total number of 20 groups delivered across all partners. This review outlines the key findings from these focus groups

RECOVEU Policy and Practice Review: Work Package 3 - Establishing context. Grundtvig Multilateral - EU Lifelong Learning Programme. Project Number: 538955-LLP-1-2013-1-UK-GRUNDTVIG-GMP

A review of the policy relating to drug addiction and treatment in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Romania and Italy. This document provides the contextual background for the RECOVEU project : A participative approach to curriculum development for adults in addiction recovery across the European Union. The project has brought together partners from the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Romania and Italy with the aim of developing access to learning resources for people in addiction recover. The review draws on existing data (for example, from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction) and the experiential knowledge of the five partner organisations working in the field of addiction

Premio – an electronic platform for entrepreneurial training

AbstractUniversities have scientific and technical competences which provide them capabilities to develop innovative, high-tech products and services. Successful implementation of these capabilities in the economical environment request entrepreneurship competences and abilities. PREMIO e-platform addresses the issue of developing an entrepreneurial culture among candidates from higher education (students, teachers, researchers) in a transnational perspective. The paper presents a transnational entrepreneurship training course and a mentoring model with the participation of European specialists. The project is foreseen as an efficient solution to motivate, train and support entrepreneurs, thereby encouraging the success of e-learning in higher education