The third Transnational Project Meeting took place at Wyliodrin installations in Bucharest on June 24th and 25th, 2024. All Ecothings partners from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (AO – Spain), Colegio Santiago Apóstol (P1 – Spain), STANDO LTD (P2 – Cyprus), Wyliodrin (P3 – Romania) and TURAN ERDOĞAN YILMAZ FEN LİSESİ (P4 – Turkey) participated.
Day 1
- 9:30 – 10:00 Welcome from Cristian Rusu
- Starting from 10:00: talk from Leopoldo about the “state of the project”
- review of the deadlines as states in the project (deadlines for PRs, other activities);
- how many people attend project activities from outside of the partners? what is the profile of the people? justify objectives of
the meeting, and the activities (giving the book, new relationships). are there any government agents involved? educations
agents? - finish date for the project: 31st of December;
- discussed variations on the budget (moving 15%-100% is allowed, depending on the activity);
- intermediary report 1: 23 of May, the final report justifies everything;
- discussed the multiplier events, what needs to be done, if everything is on track;
- discussed the possibility of extending the deadlines of PR3 and PR4;
- Sara suggested that we might focus on “success stories” related to PR1, PR2;
- Leopoldo went through his presentation on the status of the EcoThings;
- This TPM budget was reassigned according to the new location (Romania) in comparison with the previous one (Cyprus).
- Starting from 12:00: talk from Sandro about the LLTA in Valencia (review of the activities)
- UPV was a major contributor to the success of this LLTA;
- UPV students taught the pupils;
- partners from Turkey build up their smart-home project;
- language/cultural/educational barriers were overcome;
- Mermer talked about the selection process for their students;
- suggestion: focus more on the human and educational part of the project than the technical part (which is kinda simple);
- Sara talked about the fact that students from UPV were involved in the project and are planning to submit a publication
about the work, Sara applied for an award for the teaching methodology used in this project; - discussion went into the direction of having a more non-technical e-book but focus on the human interactions in the project;
- profile of the teacher/ profile of the students are important;
- common language between students and teachers (common understanding);
- some specific questions should be posed in order to improve educational materials made;
- e-book non-technical part should be consistent;
- Sara does not agree to put details of the LTTA;
- an idea suggested was to add the “lessons” from the LTTA to the e-book.
- Discussion about the e-book:
- each Wyliodrin demo is a 2 pages in the e-book;
- integrate the Wyliodrin tutorials with the work of Leopoldo;
- first, we show the house, then we have the tutorials from Wyliodrin;
- the tutorials from Wyliodrin will follow the structure of the exercises from Leo.
- Particularly on the e-book:
- each chapter is small and based on each unit from Leopoldo’s videos;
- each chapter link to Leolopdo’s videos;
- Leolopdo will provide the latest version of the first example for Damla;
- based on this, Wyliodrin will do it with Wyliodrin STUDIO;
- Wyliodrin will reconstruct the house, based on the notes of Leolopdo (PR1 report);
- link in the google drive PR3/to ebook.
Day 2
- Talking about the MOOC:
- Leo showed his resources and gave access to further videos;
- agreed to try and put everything on the edX platform;
- agreed to have two variants of the MOOC, one done by Leopoldo and one by Wyliodrin;
- the two MOOCs will be related, but different (a few modules will be identical – intro etc.);
- discussed again MEs (again the need to check exactly what was promised in the project for each particular ME and make
sure that what was written will be done as closely as possible); - tentative, last TPM: 4th – 5th of December 2024.