Innovative Engineering Teaching Unit in International Context

This communication is intended to disseminate the first learnings and outcomes of an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project (2018-1-DE1-KA203-00423) realized between Sept. 2018 and Aug. 2021 by 4 European applied sci-ence universities. The InT#Tech (International Transfer of cooperative study programmes in Europe: Scientific expecta-tions, challenges and potentials) project’s aim is the development of an international module for coop-students (appren-tices), focusing on the digital transformation of engineering, i.e. the use of massive electronic data in design, manufactur-ing, mobility and facility management. After comparing the different models of coop-studies and identifying common requirements among the partners, after achieving a first level of cooperation during a Summer School, the most challeng-ing task of the project was to imagine, develop, implement and analyse the execution of an innovative teaching unit, constituted of autonomous and supervised work, individual and team-based tasks in international context, theory and practice, distant and local lectures, academic and industrial inputs, so as to be able to grant ECTS credits to the partici-pating coop-students. The paper includes recommendations to universities willing to implement a similar programme