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GLOCAL is a project that teaches future engineers to think globally and act locally. It responds to the current needs of the European labor market through changes in the higher education system. It takes into account the need to improve the standard of living in cities, expectations addressed to the engineering industry, the availability of ITC technology and greater professional mobility's need. Assessment of current skills of technical university graduates showed lack of competence in the field of cooperation in multi-disciplinary teams dealing with difficult interdisciplinary projects, responding to location, technical, social, legal, ecological, cultural heritage, image and brand development, improving the quality of life in the city's complex conditions. Engineers working in the broadly understood architectural, construction and civil engineering industry must now demonstrate the skills of creative action and cooperation in interdisciplinary and international teams of designers and contractors. They are expected to act in engineering teams to understand the non-technical values of their activities. The GLOCAL project will promote among summer school's participants the extension of interdisciplinary technical knowledge, language competences and work in international teams. A consortium of 3 European universities will carry out the main objective of the project. There are universities open to the modernization of their education programs to current needs, having a wide range of technical science, including research aimed at public space's modernisation and raising cities's standard of living. The partner universities' academic staff (24 teachers) will be trained on three short methodological training sessions, where it will improve its skills in a modern education as well as exchange of interdisciplinary knowledge and establishing scientific contacts. The most important effect of the project will be innovative summer school (implemented in the mixed education system), in the form of 2 parts of the course with teachers (2 weeks in Spain and 2 weeks in Poland / Lithuania) and a 3-week e-learning part (3 modules). Teaching methods developed in the consortium (original didactic materials, e-laboratories) will be tested on two groups of 24 students (8 students from each university, from engineering departments) in summer 2020 and 2021. The learning outcomes will be verified after each edition of the course. All products verified during the courses (course syllabus, didactic and e-learning materials, e-laboratories, 4 languages branch e-dictionary) will be available free of charge on the GLOCAL website. There will be also two studies: a book and a guide to good design practices in the e-book version. The printed version will be sent free to the libraries of 30 universities. The innovative GLOCAL module will be included in the programs of partner universities and offered to students from various universities as an optional subject (6 ECTS). The implementation of this module will make it possible to increase the attractiveness of technical studies, complement the program with modern achievements of ICT technologies, and will influence the connection of teaching with practical aspects responding to European labor market's needs. Participants of the GLOCAL project (students, teachers) will broaden their interdisciplinary knowledge and skills, improve language skills, team work skills, get to know the cultural values of cities and partner university countries. Local government administration, producers, professional engineers will gain the opportunity to influence the education process and at the same time expand their own knowledge. In the future, the updated GLOCAL module will prepare students well for the labor market's changing needs, which will positively affect local and global economic development. The GLOCAL project provides many (at least 8) events in partner countries, addressed to various receivers (students, academic staff, researchers, high school students, producers, engineers of various industries, local government authorities, state administration). The purpose of the events will be to disseminate the results of GLOCAL project, promote the idea of the Erasmus + program and encourage them to be used in personal education, improving competences, scientific development and courses. The results of the project will be passed to the university authorities as a learning module that could be used to expand the university's teaching offer. In addition, the GLOCAL project assumes dissemination of scientific work's results among local and regional government authority and administration to help them make planning and investment decisions to improve the standard of living in cities and their economic development.
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