Ludor Engineering is a partner in the project 21st Century Students - Promoting Digital Manufacturing and Design (DM&D) in Schools, funded by the European Union’s ERASMUS+ programme, Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnerships for School Education.

The project's objectives are:

• to promote effective STEM learning in the schools sector, subsequently driving the skills and capabilities required to deal with industrial complexities
• prepare students for the Industry 4.0 revolution exposing school students to digital manufacturing environments and expert-led learning experiences on Digital Modelling, Fabrication and Automation
• to support the effective delivery of DM&D education both within & beyond the classroom learning environment
• To strengthen the capacity all organisations working in schools education to instil quality STEM, enabling them to lead the way in Industry 4.0 education & meet the needs of an increasingly digital manufacturing sector.

It will do it through developing the following Intellectual Outputs:

1. Learner Academy: a suite of teaching resources categorised in three thematic ‘mini-toolkits’: Digital Design, Digital Fabrication and Manufacturing Automation.
2. Digital Learning Lab: an openly accessible platform to support the effective delivery of DM&D education & provide a forum for supporting groups of educators to grow their craft for STEM
   education in collaboration with one another.
3. Implementation Handbook: A how-to manual providing the nuts and bolts for implementing the ‘Education 4.0’ in the classroom.
4. Teacher 4.0 Training Programme: A professional development programme aimed at strengthening the technical & pedagogical skills for all those working in field of schools education, focusing on the use DM&D technologies as a tool to raise students’ interest in STEM subjects.

All developed in the project results will be available in English, German, Spanish, Romanian and Croatian.

Target groups: Key Stage 3 (KS3) students (aged 11-14) and their educators.

 Project partners:

• SOUTH WEST COLLEGE (UK) - coordinator
• Ludor Engineering (Romania)
• International Hellenic University (Greece)
• Platon schools  (Greece)
• The European Institute for Innovation – Technology (Germany)
• Somorrostro Training Center (Spain)
• FabLab - association for the promotion of digital fabrication (Croatia)

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