Industrial Design from an international perspective

The characteristics of this International experience, in collaboration with ROC Da Vinci, are:

• VET schools from 2 different countries
• Teachers meet online and work online to design a common activity (challenge) which has to be solved by teams of students.
• Example of challenges given to the students: to design a plastic filament machine for 3D printing from plastic waste.
• The teams of students are created, mixing students from different countries and, occasionally, from different levels (EQF 4-5)
• There is a first physical mobility, where all students and teachers meet, teams are activated, and the challenge is introduced by the teachers to the students
• The students spend some days together, understanding the challenge, selecting the parameters important to solve it, distributing roles and designing a working calendar.
• The next 2 months, the students work in the challenge online, meeting frequently for follow up their progress, and they have to send their results to the teachers. All this time, teams´work is supervised by the team of teachers.
• At the end of those 2 months, the students meet again in person (in the other country) to present the results to a jury of teachers and companies, who select the best solution proposed.