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The Sustainabilitech project – Sustainability at ITECH (BS14) was launched at the school at the beginning of the second half of the school year 2023 according to the strategic school development plan in the framework of Edutrans21. Aim: Our aim is to promote the topics of resource, environmental and climate protection at the school and integrate them into the curriculum. We want to sensitise our pupils to SDGs and make them aware of the importance of resource conservation, environmental protection and climate change. Procedure: Regular meetings of the responsible persons Involvement of the caretaker Curricular integration of ESD into the learning fields Reminder to switch off used digital devices after use (e.g. smartboards at the end of class) end of lessons) Use of open source software Take part in bicycle…

Project Title: EduTrans21 Educational Transformation for the 21st Century According to the strategic school development plan ITECH had one main aim – the integration of SDGs into the curriculum of every course. Two topics are important at the moment: Sustainability with a focus on ecology, and Inclusion At ITECH three colleagues involved in EduTrans21 started a project called “sustainabilitech” on the 25th January 2023. First activities belong to waste separation and a new bicycle station. The project is documented on the platform confluence, the official platform for projects at ITECH. In the second half of 2023 the school management started another project, the integration of SDGs in every curriculum, based on the business processes. Both projects are currently in progress. Apart from that there is a project concerning inclusion especially…

As part of the EduTrans21 (Educational Transformation for the 21st Century) project, 2021-2-DE02-KA210-VET-000050732, which Energetic Technical College from Sibiu runs in partnership with Berufliche Schule ITECH Hamburg, Germany and Infra.Run Berlin, GermanyIon 21st November 2023 . a workshop was held in our school in which 14 teachers participated During the workshop, three teachers from Berufliche Schule ITECH Hamburg, Gunnar Binda, Anna Leube and Tobias Schwalbe presented: 1. The planning process and realization of an IT workshop; 2. The possibilities of information transfer in the training of electronics technicians; 3. Dissemination of the EduTrans21 project.

Between 4.10.2023 – 13.10.2023 a group of 22 students and 4 teachers from Berufliche Schule ITECH Hamburg, Germany, a partner school in the Erasmus+ EduTrans21 project, held a workshop on Design Thinking in our school. 18 Romanian students and 3 teachers from Energetic Technical College Sibiu (Popa Virginia, Soare Constanța and Volosciuc Sorin Dan) also participated in this workshop, which took place every day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Coordinated by the teachers from Germany (Struve Karen Mathilde, Brandtner Anna Katharina, Stiehm Dominik, Tobias Schwalbe), the students divided into mixed teams from the two schools, the Berufliche Schule ITECH Hamburg and the Energetic Technical College Sibiu, each realized a project using the AGILE technique intended to solve a problem identified in the school. The theme of the projects was…

As part of the EduTrans21 (Educational Transformation for the 21st Century) project, 2021-2-DE02-KA210-VET-000050732, which Energetic Technical College from Sibiu runs in partnership with Berufliche Schule ITECH Hamburg, Germany and Infra.Run Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, 10.10.2023, a workshop was held in our school in which 21 teachers participated. During the workshop, two teachers from Berufliche Schule ITECH Hamburg, KAREN STRUVE and DOMINIK STIEHM, presented: 1. AGILE problem solving method; 2. Introduction to EduScrum – video (EduScrum Methodology allows students to participate in real project team activities and effective interpersonal interaction); 3. Design Thinking (The concept involves turning a problem into a process in which you ask yourself the right questions to find solutions); Exemplifying the implementation of this concept for a real problem (video); 4. Working with the Kanban board platform…

Between September 6-9, 2023, Ms. teacher Soare Constanța, from Colegiul Tehnic Energetic Sibiu participated, within the EduTrans21 Educational Transformation for 21st Century 2021-2-DE02-KA210-VET-000050732 project, in training, teaching and learning activities at the partner school in the project - ITECH Technical College, Hamburg. The activities where our teacher assisted in the 3 days, were part of a larger event - Hackathon 23 - a marathon event, under the auspices of a Design Thinking workshop, in which for 10 days, students from the school in Germany and a team of students from Ming Chi University in Taiwan worked in groups to find real solutions (in the form of prototypes or applications) to real problems existing in the community of Elbinsel Wilhelmsburg, where the ITECH school is located. Working on real problems in…

Between July 3-6, 2023, three teaching staff from Energetic Technical College (Popa Virginia, Constanța Soare and Volosciuc Sorin Dan) participated in a mobility, within the EduTrans21 project (Educational Transformation for the 21st Century), 2021-2-DE02- KA210-VET-000050732, at Berufliche Schule ITECH, Hamburg Germany. The project aims to build resilience through educational transformation in VET schools to meet the demands of today's challenges of digitization and climate change. The main objectives of the project are: 1. Elaboration and implementation of a school assessment for a strategic development plan; 2. Training of teaching staff in agile project implementation techniques to support educational transformation; 3. Integration of free and open source technologies; 4. Development of the agile technique for digital and inclusive learning in the field of sustainability. From the Berufliche Schule ITECH Hamburg the…

On May 24th, 2023, Sibiu Technical Technical College organized in partnership with Sibiu County School Inspectorate and the Continental Automotive Systems Sibiu Company, the annual conference of scientific communications with the theme: "Educational transformation for the 21st century - Education for sustainable development". Articles written by teachers from the country and from Germany were presented via video conference. The topics of the articles presented were from the fields of: equal opportunities, educational management, community relationships, educational partnerships, social and human sciences, integration on the labor market, examples of good practices with European projects. The conference was held in the Hanover hall of Continental Automotive Systems Sibiu. There was also a dissemination of the Erasmus+ EduTrans21 project (Educational Transformation for the 21st Century), a partnership between Energetic Technical College Sibiu, Berufliche…

Creating Sustainable Communities for a Better Future Following the questionnaire answered by our students, we concluded, among other things that they feel that more collaborative, task-based projects are needed, as well as a better and more detailed approach of the 17 SDGs. As a result, we decided to start such a project with a group of 14 students coming from various classes, using the SCRUM method in order to manage and develop our project, which is still ongoing. Therefore, the main activity is the realization of projects with the students using the AGILE/SCRUM method. The projects have as their theme the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provided for in the 2030 Agenda of the UN. The main benefits for students will be: • Responsibility and adaptability; • Critical thinking and systemic…

On January 27, 2023, during the international conference "Energy Crisis - Impetus for New Approaches in the Field of Training Specialists, Energy Production and Consumption", organized by the Center for Excellence in Energy and Electronics in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, took place a dissemination of EduTrans 21 project. At the conference Sorin Volosciuc and Popa Virginia from the Sibiu Energetic Technical College participated with two articles. There were presented the objectives of the EduTrans21 project, the partners involved in the project, as well as the new approaches to the school curriculum through AGILE projects. The interpretation of the questionnaires for students and companies regarding the status quo of the school, was also shown, as well as an analysis which will be the basis for a new strategic development plan. The…