At our project meeting at Da Vinci College in March 2022, we had a special guest. Marcel Meijer – the Mayor of the Danish island Samsø – talked about what had been done to reduce the energy consumption and use renewable energy sources in Samsø. In 1997 Samsø Municipality took the political decision to become […]
Finalizing the project in Roskilde
All good things come to an end. After almost three years of hard work, we have finalized the Edutrans project during our last meeting in Roskilde, Denmark on June 28 and 29, 2022. Writing these words, it does feel almost a bit unrealistic. After an informative tour through Roskilde Techniske Skole, we started up our […]
Successful meeting in Dordrecht
With great pleasure we look back at our international project meeting which took place in Dordrecht from March 28th till April 1st 2022. We had reach the moment to let the models and learning materials being tested by teachers and students from all the partner schools. Each school did sent two teachers and five students. […]
Preparations meeting Dordrecht
From March 28th till April 1st 2022 we will have an international project meeting in Dordrecht. Da Vinci College will host this meeting. Each partner school will sent two teachers and five students to test our models and learning materials. We are very much looking forward to this! See below the flyer which we have […]
Live project meeting in the Basque Country
On February 1st 2022 we were welcomed by project partner CIFP Usurbil LHII for our first Learning, Teaching & Training Activity. The most important part of this meeting was to design a Teacher Training, to be used in all colleges to train our staff in working with the models and learning materials of EduTrans. It […]
‘Live’ project meeting in Oberhausen
We great pleasure we look back at our ‘live’ project meeting which took place in Oberhausen from 21-23 September 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the project team hadn’t been able to meet up live for about 1,5 years. We tried to continue our project work online via e-mail and MS Teams. Even though we […]
A look behind the scenes in Valencia, Spain
“My name is Javier Mercadal and I am studying Heating and Cooling. This year, me and the rest of my colleagues, we are working with the heat pump, a model developed for the Edutrans project. It`s being a great opportunity for us because is a technology that is increasing a lot in Spain. I am sure […]
Our journey so far
With energy and pleasure our international consortium keeps working on the EduTrans project. Despite all the challenges caused by the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, we continue our work. Obviously the situation requires a lot of flexibility and perseverance. Some activities have for example been delayed because students had a role in building models, but weren’t allowed […]
International Masterclass by Dutch energy transition professor and expert
Europe wants to become the first climate neutral continent by 2050. This goals reflects the need to reduce energy-related CO2 emissions to limit climate change. It is an ambitious goal which will have an enormous impact on the way energy is produced. How will Europe look like in 2050? Will there be solar panels and […]
A look behind the scenes in Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Students Patric and Timo – second year students Smart Technology – have faced a nice challenge. They are part of a group of students who work on a model on ‘Vertical Farming’. A couple of months earlier two other students designed and built a first version of a four levels mini-greenhouse. Patrick and Timo had […]