Co4Air

Co4AIR is carried by a strategic partnership composed of eight European institutions involved in Computers, Cognition and Communication (Co3) in control education, a field that draws upon computer science, mathematics, telematics, robotics, computer architecture, embedded systems, real-time systems and many others. This strategic partnership groups highly-qualified researchers involved in the International federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). The project is in perfect line with the vision of the IFAC in the area of Education.

A situational analysis has identified two major difficulties in the domain of Co3 in control education: the various gaps between theory and practice and a lack of real case studies in current curricula. Moreover, the research community is fragmented into a large number of sub-communities, some of which enjoying a high level of autonomy.

Working under these assumptions, Co4AIR project focused on three (3) objectives addressing key needs in this field: i) investigate the theory-practice gaps in the teaching of Co3 in control, ii) develop and test new course content integrating multi-sectorial courses, iii) design and develop a pedagogical multimedia product and a student contest.

The concrete outputs of these activities are:

• Skills/competence Matrix: a tool used to compare the required competencies for a student and to design course content,
• Serious Game: a pedagogical multimedia tool with high educational potential implementing learning-by-mistake methods
• Student contest: an event which challenges student teams to design, build, and test efficient solution for current, real-life, human-in-the-loop Co3 in control problems.

More information about this project can be found on the project website.

Partners: University of Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambresis, University of Maribor, Universidad del Pais Vasco, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Universitatea Tehnica Cluj-Napoca, University of Algarve, European University Foundation