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The Univ Sapientia of Cluj-Napoca wants to be not only a key role player for labour force supply, but also a solid partner in the innovative thinking. Through this mobility project, the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the applicant HEI, will acquire from his donor state partner a know-how, with which he will assure a short term, as well a long term development to fulfil the stated mission. The short-term benefits will be through the student mobility, so the students will obtain a guided experience in the real industry in the DS. Parallel to this action, the mobility of the teaching and administrative staff to and from DS will assure the know-how transfer for the long term development needed for sustainability of the post project period. The need for this project consists in the lack of the methodologies in our university system regarding the approaching the university curricula and the industry. Two main objectives are referred within this project.
First, a modernized curriculum in the case of the "Advanced Mechatronic Systems" MSc studies (4 semester) will be realized. The second objective is to establish a sustainable methodology in the Romanian economic space - a service -, in order to facilitate the increase of automation degree of SMEs. Through this project, a thematic mobility will be realized. After ending the mobility period, the results will be considerable in two fields: immediate experiences for the participant students and long term know-how for the academic staff.
During this project, the mobility of academic staff, students and representatives of companies will be undertaken in the time span of September 2019 – June 2020. In the target group, there are MSc, PhD students, university staff and company representatives. The mobility project will be a perfect opportunity to share the theoretical and practical knowledge using presentations, hand-on experiences, job shadowing, etc. to fulfil the above-mentioned aim.
Summary of project results
n the timeline of the project, the first mobility was undertaken by prof. Wei Deng Solvang, as incoming mobility grantee from the Department of Industrial Engineering (UiT, Campus Narvik). Her mobility period was 28-29 January of 2020, and during the visit, in front of our colleagues and student, she held a comprehensive presentation regarding the academic and research possibilities and achievements at the Department of Industrial Engineering. In this way, the preparation for the future outgoing mobilities (for staff and students) was undertaken. Right after that, the internal competition for the student mobility was launched for the placement period of March-May 2020. The pandemic broke out, the lockdowns and the border locks did not allowed to carry on the project, so the project end was postponed from 30th September 2020 to 30th September 2021.
Summary of bilateral results
The main results could be categorized on two levels: connected to the student and connected to the academic staff.Despite of the only one student mobility, there are several conclusion regarding it. During the placement mobility to the project partner, the outgoing MSc student was involved in a PhD project (Halldor Arnarson, Department of Industrial Engineering, UiT) having several tasks: mechanical design, software programming, etc. At the final evaluation, the mobility student’s supervisor (Prof. Wei Deng Solvang) underlined his performance. In this way - at the Sapientia University - we get an objective feedback, that the Mechatronic BSc and MSc study it gives students what they need to approach and solve complex problems.On the academic staff level, the mobility was a great possibility (for both of partners) to experience on first hand the other institute. The incoming mobility of our partner was appropriate to meet not only the academic staff and their work at the Sapientia University, but we made a visit to one of our partner SC PLASMATERM SA to identify further cooperation possibilities, which should involve not only academic partners, but SME also. BOne of the mentioned topics are the continuation of the mobility project, by applying for further grant (which is already done and awarded by the EEA through the 21-MOB-0009 project). With the help of this project, the academic staff and student from other departments of the two partner universities should be involved to widen the cooperation between the two universities.The second concrete action was the application for cooperation grant (which is already done through the 21-COP-0027 application). The goal of the latter project is to bilateral update the "Virtual Commissioning" (Sapientia University) and "Virtual Manufacturing" (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) lectures of the MSc studies, involving the advantage of the use of virtual and augmented reality during the lab work simulations.