The 26th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the third meeting in 2023 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the April 2023 - beginning of May 2023 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Teems platform on 11/05/2023, meeting time is 12:00-13:30 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 04/04/2023;
• Financial management: external evaluator + delay;

• Workshop BTU Wednesday April 5th;
• Inventory of taught courses to Students and Industry: presentation of figures in Excel on Google Drive by all partner universities;
• Overview of dissemination, sustainability and course evaluation;
• Development of Methodology Concept Higher Education 4.0 in Ukraine: what is the situation? (Act. 1.2);
• Development of recommendations for updating Engineering Curriculum (Act. 2.3);

              - Finished in Georgia
              - Situation of Ukrainian partners

• Planning of EU visits + visit to GE;
• Overview of WP 6 : proposals from partner universities + planned activities until 0/07/2023;
• Social media;
• Any other business;
• Next meeting: 22.06.2023 at 10 AM CET.

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The 25th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the second meeting in 2023 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the second decade of March 2023 - beginning of April 2023 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Teems platform on 04/04/2023, meeting time is 12:00-13:30 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 10/03/2023;
• Financial management: external evaluator + delay;

• Workshop BTU Wednesday April 5th;
• Inventory of taught courses to Students and Industry: presentation of figures in Excel on Google Drive by all partner universities;
• Development of Methodology Concept Higher Education 4.0 in Ukraine: what is the situation? (Act. 1.2);
• Development of recommendations for updating Engineering Curriculum (Act. 2.3);

              - Finished in Georgia
              - Situation of Ukrainian partners

• Planning of EU visits;
• Overview of WP 6 : proposals from partner universities;
• Any other business;
• Next meeting: 11.05. 2023 at 10 AM CET.

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The 24th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the second meeting in 2023 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the second half of February 2023 - first decade of March 2023 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Teems platform on 10/03/2023, meeting time is 10:00-12:00 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 09/02/2023;
• Financial management;
• Project prolongation request;
• Dissemination strategy, Evaluation methods and Sustainability plans;
• Inventory of taught courses to Students and Industry: presentation of figures in Excel on Google Drive by all partner universities;
• Development of Methodology Concept Higher Education 4.0 (Act. 1.2) in Ukraine: what is the situation?;
• Development of recommendations for updating Engineering Curriculum (Act. 2.3)
  - Finished in Georgia
  - Situation of Ukrainian partners
• 8 Publications on paper
• 9 Further project activities:

- Planning of courses for industry
- External evaluator
- Visits to EU
- Stakeholders ‘ Round table
- Conference in Georgia

• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting (online).

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The 23th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the second meeting in 2023 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the second half of January 2023 - first decade of February 2023 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Teems platform on 09/02/2023, meeting time is 10:00-12:00 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 12/01/2023;
• Financial management;
• Project prolongation request;
• Dissemination strategy;
• GITA: evaluation of course books;
• Inventory of taught courses to Students and Industry: presentation of figures in Excel on Google Drive by all partner universities;
• Development of Methodology Concept Higher Education 4.0 (Act. 1.2);
• Development of recommendations for updating Engineering Curriculum (Act. 2.3);
•  Evaluation methods - Feedback from participants;
• Sustainability plan. The state of arts;
• Semi-annual leaflets;
• Social Media : use of hashtag Erasmus+, CBHE
• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting (online).

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The 22th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the first meeting in 2023 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the last decade of December 2022 - first decade of January 2023 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Teems platform on 12/01/2023, meeting time is 10:00-12:00 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 22/12/2022;
• Financial management;
• Project prolongation request;
• Dissemination strategy;
• GITA: evaluation of course books;
• Inventory of taught courses to Students and Industry: presentation of figures in Excel on Google Drive by all partner universities;
• Development of Methodology Concept Higher Education 4.0 (Act. 1.2);
• Development of recommendations for updating Engineering Curriculum (Act. 2.3);
•  Evaluation methods - Feedback from participants;
• Sustainability plan. The state of arts;
• Semi-annual leaflets;
• Social Media : use of hashtag Erasmus+, CBHE
• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting (online).

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The 21th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the eighth meeting in 2022 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the last decade of November 2022 - two decades of December 2022 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Teems platform on 22/12/2022, meeting time is 10:00-12:00 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 24/11/2022;
• Financial management;
• Project prolongation request;
• Reporting: presentation from EACEA: attention to precision and penalties (see annex);
• Dissemination overview: remarks Geert: what have partners been doing since reception of e-mail from 22/9;
• GITA: evaluation of course books + evaluation of Batumi seminar;
• Inventory of taught courses to Students and Industry: presentation of figures in Excel on Google Drive by all partner universities;
• Quality reports;
• Development of Methodology Concept Higher Education 4.0 (Act. 1.2);
• Development of recommendations for updating Engineering Curriculum (Act. 2.3);
•  Evaluation methods - Feedback from participants;
• Sustainability plan. The state of arts;
• Dissemination strategy;
• Semi-annual leaflets;
• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting: 12 January 2022 (online).

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The 21th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the eighth meeting in 2022 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the last decade of October 2022 - two decades of November 2022 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Zoom platform on 24/11/2022, meeting time is 10:00-12:00 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 20/10/2022;
• Financial management;
• Project prolongation request;
• Reporting: presentation from EACEA: attention to precision and penalties (see annex);
• Dissemination overview: remarks Geert: what have partners been doing since reception of e-mail from 22/9;
• GITA: evaluation of course books + evaluation of Batumi seminar;
• Involvement of Festo;
• Inventory of taught courses to Students and Industry: presentation of figures in Excel on Google Drive by all partner universities;
• Quality reports;
• Development of Methodology Concept Higher Education 4.0 (Act. 1.2);
• Development of recommendations for updating Engineering Curriculum (Act. 2.3);
•  Evaluation methods - Feedback from participants + sustainability plan: reminder to partner universities;
• Business sustainability plan + signing of cooperation agreements (Act. 6.7);
• Dissemination strategy;
• Semi-annual leaflets;
• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting: 22 December 2022 (online).

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The Conference organized by the University of Business and Technology, that was held in Technopark GITA. The event took place within the framework of the visit of the project leaders and representatives of the partner organization in Tbilisi, financed by the Erasmus+ grant "Boosting the role of HEls in the industrial transformation towards the Industry 4.0 paradigm in Georgia and Ukraine".

Materials:
- agenda;

- list of participants of the conference, 18.10.2022;

- list of participants of the conference, 19.10.2022; 

- list of participants of the conference, 20.10.2022;

- training materials:

Supporting Innovation & Technology Transfer at Business and Technology University;

Novelsis;

Industry 4.0 Laboratory at Business and Technology University;

Gergian's Innovation & Technology Agency;

ELVEN Technologies;

Cooperation with industry into practice;

Career Development Center & Collaboration with Industry;

BTU general;

BTU digest.

The Workshop was organized at the Lutsk National Technical University on October 4-8, 2022 in the frames of HEIn4 Erasmus+ Project.

Key speakers:
FESTO - Ievgen Ryzhenko, Mykola Yakymenko
LNTU - Yurii Feshchuk. Natalia Vavdiiuk, Mykola Melnychuk
Key topics of study: a review of current solutions for creating digital twins for Industry 4.0; simulation of technological processes in CIROS Studio in real-time mode; methods of digital twins of manufacturing process creating with CIROS Studio; Programming of Siemens PLCs SIMATIC S7-1200/S7-1500; Lean leadership for Industry 4.0.

The key elements of the new laboratory are a real simulation of the production process with real stations which include PLCs, actuators, conveyors, sorting process, sensors, and smart and preventive maintenance because only working with real equipment can guarantee that learners could easily transfer knowledge from theory into practice and University, in this case, will play a role of a bridge between industrial needs and real skills of learners.

The main topics of the workshop were:

• modern machinery manufacturing technology design and automatization (sectors ‐ aviation, vehicles, power, agricultural); 

•  programming and operation of the CEROS (Robot programming, PLC programming, troubleshooting, production planning, and production control);
• modern technologies for additive manufacturing (3D scanning, 3D printing);
• measurement of the parts with complex geometry coupled with 3D protocol; 

• due to ISO 9001, ultrasonic control of parts coupled with the estimation of deviation from the design, check of surface geometry;

The training program consisted of theoretical and practical parts.
The number of participants in the training was 30 people, including
10 representatives of 5 industrial companies in the region, and
20 teachers from 4 universities in Ukraine.

During the training, there was a discussion with company representatives about the current state of production and the needs for the use of digital twins, programming PLCs, and cooperation in the field of Industry 4.0 implementation.

Materials:
- agenda, list of participants and report;
- training materials.

The 20th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the seventh meeting in 2022 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the second part of August 2022 - first part of October 2022 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Google Meet platform on 20/10/2022, meeting time is 9:30-11:30 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 24/08/2022;
• Financial management;
• Course development: Lutsk, Akaki;
• Project prolongation request: letter+ table of achieved and planned outcomes + activity planning (see annex);
• Reporting: presentation from EACEA: attention to precision and penalties (see annex);
• Dissemination overview: remarks Geert: what have partners been doing since reception of e-mail from 22/9;
• GITA: evaluation of course books + evaluation of Batumi seminar;
• Evaluation of Festo seminar in Lutsk;
• Quality reports: 5 September;
• Development of Methodology Concept Higher Education 4.0 (Act. 1.2);
• Development of recommendations for updating Engineering Curriculum (Act. 2.3);
• Inventory of Taught courses to Students and Industry + Evaluation methods + Feedback from participants;
• Business sustainability plan + signing of cooperation agreements (Act. 6.7);
• Semi-annual leaflets;
• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting: 24 November 2022 (online).

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The 19th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the sixth meeting in 2022 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the second part of June 2022 - first part of August 2022 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Zoom platform on 24/08/2022, meeting time is 10:30-12:00 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 09/06/2022;
• Financial management;
• Project prolongation request;
• Partners only section staff costs – proof of work – courses developed – updates;
• GE course evaluation by GITA;
• Update organization of courses for industry;
• Seminar Batumi by GITA: evaluation;
• Overview reports UA partners related to the difficulties of war in implementation of project activities;
• Use of EU-logo + check partner websites;
• Dissemination – overview of activities by all partners;
• Project website - update;
• Conference in Tbilisi 17th – 21st October. Programme and practical arrangements;
• Training in Lutsk by FESTO;
• Quality reports;
• Discussion of the project mobility and further project progress;
• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting.

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

It is the third study visit to a European Union university under the project. The main purpose of the study visit is to get acquainted with the best practices of Industry 4.0 at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden).

• Agenda;
• Participants;

• Study materials:

            Bliss

            Maffei

            MAESTRO

            TIPHYS

The 18th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the fifth meeting in 2022 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the second part of May 2022 - first part of June 2022 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Zoom platform on 09/06/2022, meeting time is 11:30-13:00 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 09/06/2022;
• Financial management – ITR Gent, subcontracting proof of recording, check of outcomes with Philippe Saey;
• Physical visit to Stockholm – practical arrangements;
• Completed template for courses with industry from Akaki Tseretely State University. Evaluation;
• Courses for industry – timing in GE;
• Two pages report by each UA partner with difficulties in implementation of project activities;
• Lay-out of HEIN4 website;
• HEIN4 contents on the websites of the partner universities;
• Dissemination – overview of activities by all partners, dissemination leaflet Iryna study visit Ghent;
• Remarks from EACEA;
• Merging of NMAU into new legal entity - documents to be completed;
• Quality reports;
• Discussion of the project mobility and further project progress;
• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting.

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

It is the second study visit to a European Union university under the project. The main purpose of the study visit is to get acquainted with the best practices of Industry 4.0 at the Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Porto, Portugal).

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Study materials:
• Presentation 1
• Presentation 2
• Presentation 3
• Presentation 4
• ICARUS - AN INNOVATIVE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION TRAINING TOOLBOX TO EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS THE EUROPEAN INDUSTRY 4.0 SKILLS GAP AND MISMATCHES

The 16th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the fourth meeting in 2022 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the second part of April 2022 - first part of May 2022 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on MS Teams platform on 05/05/2022, meeting time is 10:30-12:00 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 11/04/2022;
• Financial management;
• Completed template for courses with industry, presentation by Akai Tsereteli State University;
• Physical visits + explanation of the use of the unit costs + supporting documentation travel costs;
• Courses for industry;
• Lay-out of HEIN4 website;
• HEIN4 contents on the websites of the partner universities;
• Remarks of EACEA;
• Discussion of the project mobility and further project progress;
• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting.

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

It is the first study visit to a European Union university under the project. The main purpose of the study visit is to get acquainted with the best practices of Industry 4.0 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. It is also planned to visit the enterprise Volvo Cars Gent, the industrial partner of the project.

• Agenda 3-5 of May;
• Agenda 6 of May;
• Participants;
• Study materials:
  1. Presentation 1
  2. Presentation 2
  3. Presentation 3
  4. Presentation 4
  5. Presentation 5
  6. Presentation 6
  7. Presentation 7

The 15th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the first meeting in 2022 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the March 2022 - first part of April 2022 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Zoom platform on 11/04/2022, meeting time is 10:00-12:00 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Situation in Ukraine due to the Russian agression;
• Approval and follow up of meeting report 04/03/2022;
• Financial management: second instalment, proof of recording equipment in accountancy;
• Completed template for courses with industry, presentation by all Georgian partners;
• Physical visits + explanation of the use of the unit costs + supporting documentation travel costs;
• Courses for industry;
• Evaluation methods;
• Involvement of the associate partners;
• Lay-out of HEIN4 website;
• HEIN4 contents on the websites of the partner universities;
• Dissemination;
• Discussion of the project mobility and further project progress;
• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting.

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The 14th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the second meeting in 2022 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the second part of January 2022 - February 2022 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Zoom platform on 04/03/2022, meeting time is 10:00-12:00 C.E.T. Russia's aggression against Ukraine makes its own adjustments to the implementation of the project. Therefore, partners from Ukrainian universities will take part in the meeting as far as possible.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Situation in Ukraine due to Russian agression;
• Approval and follow up of meeting report 7/01/2022;
• Financial management (Proof of recording in the accounting system for real costs (equipment, subcontracting), Second instalment);
• discussion of the dissemination strategy and quality control measures (update of university webpages, evaluation reports from Reference Groups, update of dissemination and sustainability plans);
• Template for courses with industry;
• Analysis of the feedback on the implementation report;
• Discussion of the project mobility and further project progress;
• Discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• Planning of next coordination meeting

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The 13th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the first meeting in 2022 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the second part of December 2021 - second part of January 2022 and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Zoom platform on 17/01/2022, meeting time is 9:30-11:30 C.E.T.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• Approval and follow up of meeting report 13/12/2021;
• State of affairs: purchase of equipment per partner;
• discussion of the financial management issues;
• discussion of the dissemination strategy and quality control measures (update of university webpages, evaluation reports from Reference Groups, update of dissemination and sustainability plans);
• presentation of the Learning Lab by National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine;
• preparations for the course development by Ukrainian partners;
• Presentation exploitation plan for trainings with industry;
• discussion of the project mobility and further project progress during the COVID-19;
• discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• planning of next coordination meeting

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

The 12th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the second meeting after the summer break 2021 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the October - first part of December 2021, discussion of the interim project report and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Zoom platform on 13/12/2021, meeting time is 10:00 – 12:00 C.E.T.

The meeting agenda includes: 

• approval and follow up of meeting report 25/10/2021;
• HEIn4 interim report and project prolongation request;
• overview of the progress with the purchase of equipment by each GE and UA partner and situation of learning lab;
• discussion of the financial management issues;
• discussion of the dissemination strategy and quality control measures (update of university webpages, evaluation reports from Reference Groups, update of dissemination and sustainability plans);
• presentation of the Learning Lab by Donetsk National State University;
• preparations for the course development by Georgian partners;
• discussion of the project mobilities and further project progress during the COVID-19;
• discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• planning of next coordination meeting

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes;
• Presentation of the Virtual Factory Learning Lab by the Donetsk National Technical University, (lab is established in frames of HEIn4 project).

The 11th monthly coordination meeting of project partners on will be the first meeting after the summer break 2021 and devoted to the overview of the work performed during the July – August 2021, finalization of the interim project report and planning of activities for the upcoming period. The meeting will be held on-line on Zoom platform on 25/10/2021, meeting time is 10:00 – 12:00 C.E.T. The meeting agenda includes:

• approval of the coordination meeting report of 29/06/2021;
• overview and finalization of the HEIn4 interim report;
• overview of the progress with the purchase of equipment by each GE and UA partner;
• discussion of the financial management issues in the context of preparations for interim report;
• discussion of the dissemination strategy and quality control measures (update of university webpages, evaluation reports from Reference Groups, update of dissemination and sustainability plans);
• presentation of the Virtual Factory Learning Labs by Batumi Shota Rustavelli State University;
• preparations for the contents development workshop on October 8th 2021 10.00 – 12.00 CET;
• discussion of the updated workplan of HEIn4 project and preparations for the project mobilities;
• discussion of any other questions raised by partners;
• planning of next coordination meeting.
   

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes;
• presentation of the Virtual Factory Learning Lab by the Batumi Shota Rustavelli State University (lab is established in frames of HEIn4 project).

The Round table and Training were organized at the Lutsk National Technical University on June 23-26, 2021 in the frames of HEIn4 Erasmus+ Project.

During the sessions of Round Table the new laboratory “Smart Factory Lab” (established in frames of HEIn4 project) was officially opened and inaugurated. The representatives from different industrial companies and universities took part in the discussions about the future of technical higher education, cooperation between businesses and the Lutsk National Technical University, application of the new lab in context of trainings for the industrial staff.

After the Round Table during the next two days the university teachers became deeply acquainted with new equipment, technological processes, elements and its installation. Questions on usage of this modern technical equipment in educational processes (for the students and industrial staff) were among the questions actively discussed during the trainings.

The participants of Training has got the practical experience on the use of modern software in production processes and simulation of mechatronics modules, shared its ideas on organizing of students and industrial competitions in Industry 4.0 and mechatronics.

Materials:
- agenda of the Round Table;
- list of participants of the Round Table;
- agenda of Training;
- list of participants of the Training, 24.06.202;
- list of participants of the Training, 25.06.2021;
- training materials.

The 10th monthly coordination meeting of project partners was held on-line via Skype for Business on 29/06/2021, meeting time is 10:00 – 12:00 C.E.T. The main objective of the meeting was the overview of the project performance and preparations for the interim project report, presentations of Virtual Factory Learning Labs, and planning of project activities for summer period.

The agenda of the meeting included:

• approval of meeting report of 17/05/2021;
• overview and finalization of the list of webinars;
• overview of the state of the art with the purchase of equipment per partner;
• discussion of the financial management issues;
• preparations for the interim report (what extra info is needed for the contents report, define the deadline to deliver extra info, etc.);
• discussion of the dissemination strategy and  recommendations  from Erasmus+ National Agencies;
• Presentation of Virtual Factory Learning Labs by Lutsk National Technical University and by Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University;
• planning of next contents development workshop in September;
• discussion of other questions raised by partners;
• planning next meeting.

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes;
• presentation of the Virtual Factory Learning Lab by the Lutsk National Technical University (lab is established in frames of HEIn4 project);
• presentation of the Virtual Factory Learning Lab by the Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University (lab is established in frames of HEIn4 project).

HEIn4 project goes on in the conditions of restrictions on international mobility with the webinars from European project partners delivered with a purpose to compensate the temporarily absence of the study visits of Georgian and Ukrainian project partners to EU partners.

On May 26th 2021 the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven will deliver the webinar “Current and future networks for Industry 4.0 – Diagnostics in modern industrial networks”. Industry 4.0 faces the convergence of  “information technology”  (IT) and  “operational technology”  (OT,  “industrial automation”).  This  reflects in the industrial network technology for I4.0: both advanced diagnostics and new network technologies have been and will be introduced.

This webinar will present a short overview of new network technologies such as Single Pair Ethernet (SPE), Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) and PROFINET  –  OPC  UA integration.  A number of diagnostic technologies for industrial networks will be discussed and illustrated.

Date and time of the webinar: May 26th, 2021, from 10:00 to 11:00 CET.

The webinar will delivered on the Skype for Business platform, access to the webinar by the link.

Materials of the webinar:

• abstract of the webinar “Current and future networks for Industry 4.0 – Diagnostics in modern industrial networks” from Arne Verhoeven, Dimitri De Schuyter, Mathieu Troch, Philippe Saey;
• presentation “Current and future networks for Industry 4.0 – Diagnostics in modern industrial networks”. Industry 4.0 faces the convergence of  “information technology”;
• participants.

The 9th monthly coordination meeting of project partners was held on-line via Skype for Business on 17/05/2021, meeting time was 10:30 – 12:30 C.E.T.

The main objective of the meeting was the analysis of the state of the art of project performance, presentations of Virtual Factory Learning Labs, planning of project activities for the upcoming month and reaching the agreements on the following questions:
- approval of meeting report of 25/03/2021 ;
- planning of webinars;
- discussion of the state of the art with the development and translation of case study;
- overview of the progress with the purchase of equipment by each GE and UA partner;
- discussion of financial management in the context of preparations for interim report (deadline 15/06/2021);
- discussion of the dissemination strategy and recommendations from the National Erasmus+ Agencies;
- presentation of the new Virtual Factory Learning Lab by the Akaki Tsereteli State University (lab is established in frames of HEIn4 project);
- presentation of the new Virtual Factory Learning Lab by the Business and Technology University (lab is established in frames of HEIn4 project);
- planning of next contents development workshops;
- discussion of any other questions raised by project partners;
- planning of the next coordination meeting (preliminary for 28th June 2021) at 10:00 AM CET.

Access to the coordination meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes;
• Presentation of the Virtual Factory Learning Lab by the Akaki Tsereteli State University;
• Presentation of the Virtual Factory Learning Lab by the Business and Technology University.

HEIn4 project foresees the familiarization of the academic staff from Georgian and Ukrainian universities with the practical application of the latest Industry 4.0 technologies by industries in Europe. According to the original workplan the project teams from Georgia and Ukraine should perform the study visit to the industrial sights of Volvo Cars in Gent in May – June 2021. However the existing travel restrictions imposed due to pandemic of Corona virus do not allow to perform this study visit as originally scheduled.

Taking into account the existing situation the HEIn4 consortium has decided to postpone the study visit until the travelling to/within Europe will be possible and to perform it in online format as much as possible. Therefor the Volvo Cars Gent, being the non-academic partner of HEIn4 project, and representatives of the Volvo Sweden has prepared and delivered the webinar “Innovations and Technologies in relation to Industry 4.0 at Volvo” that is a very good preparation activity allowing to perform the future study visit more efficiently.

During the webinar the Volvo Cars Gent has presented its approaches to the application of innovations and Industry 4.0 technologies including the following topics: smart factories (Smart Factory Academy @ Volvo Car Torslanda), augmented reality & virtual reality, advance robotics, smart maintenance, 3-D printing, robotic process automation, blockchain approaches to trace the raw materials and CO2 emissions.

Participants of webinars are asked to register online by the link.

Date and time of the webinar: May 5th, 2021, from 10:00 to 11:30 CET.

The webinar was delivered on the Zoom platform, access to the webinar by the link.

Materials of the webinar:

• presentations;
• video of the webinar “Innovations and Technologies in relation to Industry 4.0 at Volvo”;
• list of advance registration;
• participants.

HEIn4 project goes on in the conditions of restrictions on international mobility by the webinars from European project partners that are being performed with a purpose to compensate the temporarily absence of the study visits of Georgian and Ukrainian project partners to EU partners.

On April 22nd 2021 the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven delivered the webinar “Digital twins: overview and case studies”. A digital twin is a virtual representation that serves as the real-time digital counterpart of a physical object or process.  “Digital twin” became a buzz word in the advent of “Industry 4.0”, as one of the key enabling technologies of I4.0.

This webinar presented a short overview on digital twin technology and gave the examples, aspects of design, connectivity and virtual commissioning of digital twins.

Date and time of the webinar: April 22nd, 2021, from 10:00 to 11:00 CET.

The webinar wasl delivered on the Skype for Business platform, access to the webinar by the link.

Materials of the webinar:

• abstract of the webinar “Digital twins: overview and case studies” from Prof. Philippe Saey;
• presentation “Digital twins: overview and case studies”;
• participants.

The 8th monthly coordination meeting of project partners was held on-line via Skype for Business on 25/02/2021, meeting time was 10:00 – 12:00 C.E.T. The main objective of the meeting was the analysis of the state of the art of project performance, planning of project activities and reaching the agreements on the following questions:
- approval of the meeting report of 25/02/2021;
- planning of the webinars for future period;
- planning of the webinar from EU industrial partner Volvo Card Gent;
- evaluation of the state of the art with the development of Case studies;
- discussion of the preparations for the interim report;
- making overview of the progress with the purchase of  equipment by each partner (including familiarization with the explanatory e-mail from EACEA on this issue);
- financial management, planning of bilateral online meetings with partners if necessary;
- analysis of the quality control measures;
- discussion of the dissemination strategy;
- discussion of any questions from project partners;
- planning of the next monthly meeting (06 May 2021 at 10 AM CET).

Access to the consortium meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

HEIn4 consortium continues its efforts in performing the project in the conditions of pandemic restrictions. One of the applied mitigation measures is the performing project activities in online format as much possible. Following this approach the EU partners continue to deliver the webinars with a purpose of sharing its experience and practices in the project them with Georgian and Ukrainian partners.

On March 9th 2021 the Instituto Politécnico do Porto will give a webinar “Bridge the gap between data and decision making with Power BI”. This webinar will be focused on the application of different software and web-based applications for the quick collection and analysis of economic data by companies with a purpose of operative adjustments of production and update of business models.

In this webinar will be shown real application of the Power BI tool (a business analytics service by Microsoft) at EFACEC, one of the biggest Portuguese companies, and the gains carried out for the company.

Date and time of the webinar: March 9th, 2021, from 10:00 to 10:30 CET.

The webinar will deliverd on the Zoom platform, access to the webinar by the link.

Materials of the webinar:

• abstract of the webinar “Bridge the gap between data and decision making with Power BI” from Cláudia Barbudo (EFACEC), Prof. Paulo Ávila, Prof. João Bastos, Prof. Francisco Silva, Rafael Pedrosa;
• presentation “Bridge the gap between data and decision making with Power BI”;
• participants.

Nature is versatile, creative and efficient. This is why Festo has established the Bionic Learning Network so that we can learn from nature and gain new impulses for industry. Attendees will benefit from the rich know-how of the Bionic Learning Network and experience how bionic approaches can lead to technological innovation. The participants of the webinar become familiar with bionics as an interdisciplinary science. They will learn creativity techniques and apply them in practical exercises. This webinar particularly addresses product and project managers, developers and innovation managers from industry as well as teachers, researchers and academic staff from HEIs.

Having completed this webinar, the participants will know the basics and success factors of bionics as an interdisciplinary science in the industrial context, become familiar with selected methods which make bionic approaches applicable for product design.

Participants will become open to new ideas and unconventional ways of development. Using different ways of thinking than before, participants will acquire new perspectives for their tasks and increase their innovative proficiency.

Webinar will be delivered on Zoom platform from 10:00 to 11:30 CET, access to the webinar by the link

Documents and materials of the webinar:
- abstract of the webinar “Bionic Thinking - agile development inspired by nature” from Dr. Ievgen Ryzhenko, Daughter Enterprise “Festo”;

- video of the webinar "Bionic Thinking - agile development inspired by nature" from Daughter Enterprise “Festo”, 04/03/2021 – part 01;

- video of the webinar "Bionic Thinking - agile development inspired by nature" from Daughter Enterprise “Festo”, 04/03/2021 – part 02;
- presentations and training materials.

The 7th monthly coordination meeting of project partners will be held on-line via Skype for Business on 25/02/2021, meeting time is 10:00 – 12:00 C.E.T. The main objective of the meeting will be the analysis of the project performance, planning of project activities and reaching the agreements on the following questions:
- approval of meeting report 14/01/2021  ;
- evaluation and planning of webinar;
- planning of the webinar from Volvo Cars Gent;
- discussion of the Case studies;
- thematic literature: where to store/save;
- brochures related to study of teaching methodology;
- evaluation of the workshop of 17-18 February 2021;
- planning of project activities;
- state of the art with the purchase of equipment;
- quality assurance activities;
- financial management;
- dissemination activities;
- other current questions from partners;
- planning of the next monthly meeting (25 March 2021 at 10 AM CET).

Access to the consortium meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

EU partners continues to deliver the series of webinars on different topics of Industry 4.0

On February 23rd 2021 Instituto Politécnico do Porto will give a webinar “Evaluation of the Relation between Lean Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Sustainability”.

Nowadays, Lean Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Sustainability are important concerns for the companies and, in a general way, for the society, principally, the influence of the two production philosophies, Lean Manufacturing and Industry 4.0, in the three main pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental, and social.

To better understand the relation between these production approaches and the by different sustainability’s criteria, it will be presented a study based on a structural equation model, with six hypotheses, to quantitatively measure the effects of Lean Manufacturing and Industry 4.0, in Sustainability.

Date and time of the webinar: February 23rd, 2021, from 10:00 to 10:30 CET.

Access to the webinar by the link.

Materials of the webinar:

• Abstract of the webinar “Evaluation of the Relation between Lean Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Sustainability” from Prof. Hélio Castro and Prof. Paulo Ávila, Instituto Politécnico do Porto;
• presentation “Evaluation of the Relation between Lean Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Sustainability”;
• participants.

EU partners continues to deliver the series of webinars on different topics of Industry 4.0

On February 22nd 2021 KTH Royal Institute of Technology will give the webinar “Big data and urban analytics”.

Rapid growth of the number of information sources triggered by decreasing costs of the sensors and development of IoT infrastructure result in possibility to collect enormous amount of data. Together with such data collection, several questions come up: Is this a correct data format? What can we do with this data? What instruments can be applied to process the collected data? How can we employ existing data processing centers to process the collected data?

In this webinar we will look on approaches to answer these questions having urban data in Stockholm as an example.

Date and time of the webinar: February 22nd, 2021,  from 10:00 to 11:30 CET.

Access to the webinar by the link.

Materials of the webinar:

• Abstract of the webinar “Big data and urban analytics”;
• Presentation;
• video of the webinar "Big data and urban analytics";
• Participnats.

The workshop “University leadership in the transition towards Industry 4.0” is organized by HEIn4 team and has the following objectives:
- to bring the hands-on experience in re-setting the training towards new technology challenges;
- to ensure the further acceptance of taught courses by business and academia;
- to share the acquired knowledge within and beyond the HEIn4 consortium.

The workshop will be organized as a publically open event and held on the Zoom platform. Anyone interested in the topic of the workshop are welcome to participate and contribute.

The 1st day will be focused on the pedagogic/didactic issues of engineering education in the context of Industry 4.0, university-industry collaboration in education of and lifelong learning education, entrepreneurship of engineers and training of managers in the Industry 4.0 epoch.

The 2nd day will be devoted to the presentations and discussions of the new discipline to be developed and taught later at each university partner from Georgia and Ukraine and discussions of the concepts and role in training activities of Virtual Factory Learning Labs to be established in frames of HEIn4 project.

1st day of the workshop:
Date:                    February 17th, 2021
Time:                    09:00 – 16:00 (CET)
Access:                link

2nd day of the workshop:
Date:                    February 18th, 2021
Time:                    09:00 – 12:30 (CET)
Access:                link

Documents and materials of the webinar:
- workshop programme for 17/02/2021;
- workshop programme for 18/02/2021;
- participants 17/02/2021;
- participants 18/02/2021;
- presentation “Interaction industry-university for (lifelong) learning: some lessons learned”, Philippe Saey, KU Leuven Ghent Technology Campus;
- presentation “Entrepreneurship for engineers: implementing training for students, involving industrial partners: experience, best practices and lessons learned from EIT”, Henrik Blomgren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology;
- presentation “The experience of IPP - ISEP for pedagogic/didactic issues of engineering education in relation to Industry 4.0”, Teresa Pereira, Instituto Politecnico Do Porto;
- presentation “Methodology of training managers in the Industry 4.0 epoch”, Eduard Kuznetsov, Iryna Nyenno, Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University.

After the successful implementation of the onsite seminars for Ukrainian university-partners of HEIn4 project and positive evaluation of these events by participants the Daughter Enterprise “Festo” will deliver 2 webinars for Georgian project partners.

The 1st webinar will be held on February 5th 2021 on the Zoom platform at 13:00 Georgian time and will address the following topics:
- Industry 4.0. Main changes and challenges;
- Job profiles for Industry 4.0. How to be a successful;
- Basics of production planning and control on modern factories. Role of ERP and MES systems;
- Smart Maintenance. Introduction, strategies, types and KPI.

The registration of participants and the access link for the seminar is here

Documents and materials of the webinar:
- abstract of the webinar;
- program;
- attendance list;
- Presentation “Industry 4.0: Job profile, Production management Smart maintenance”;
- Presentation “Production planning & control with MES”;
- Presentation” Process optimization with MES4”;
- Presentation “Maintenance strategies”;
- Presentation “Smart Maintenance: Key Performance Indicators”.

The 6th monthly coordination meeting of project partners was held on-line via Skype for Business on 14/01/2021, meeting time was 10:00 – 12:00 C.E.T. The main objective of the meeting was the analysis of the project performance, planning of project activities and reaching the agreements on the following questions:
- approval of meeting report of 26/11/2020;
- evaluation and further planning of webinars;
- discussion of the state of the art with development of case studies;
- discussions of the steps for further study of EU teaching methodology;
- planning of the pedagogic workshops;
- detailed overview of activities from WP1 and WP2;
- purchase of equipment for learning labs: overview per partner university;
- administrative issues related to the publications and subcontracting;
- state of the art with quality control measures and reports from Reference Groups;
- dissemination of the project;
- administrative and financial management;
- discussion of the project evaluation by National Erasmus+ Office in Ukraine;
- any other questions from project partners;
- approval of the date for next coordination meeting.

Access to the consortium meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

EU partners continues to deliver the series of webinars on different topics of Industry 4.0

On December 15th 2020 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven gave two webinars which were focused on the application of cloud technologies by industry.

1st webinar “ProfiCloud: IoT framework for remote industrial applications” presented the possibilities and application of the ProfiCloud platform which is industrial cloud platform that has the direct integration into PROFINET, the world’s leading industrial Ethernet.

This webinar discussed the possible applications, some technical aspects, and presented a large scale demonstrator originally developed in the INCASE Interreg 2 Seas project. Part of the demonstrator was shown during the webinar.

2nd webinar “PROFIenergy: smart energy savings using PROFINET” presented the PROFINET system that is the world’s leading industrial  Ethernet.  The European, especially German automobile manufacturing industry, is one of the users applying it in a very  large-scale  networks.  As  energy aspects of manufacturing  have become important, PI (“PROFIBUS & PROFINET International”) developed an energy saving profile: PROFIenergy.

This webinar discussed  how  networked devices can go into  energy saving states, presented a tool to calculate energy savings in industrial applications, and discussed a demonstrator.

Date and time of the webinar: December 15th, 2020,  from 10:00 to 12:00 CET.

Access to the webinar by the link.

Materials of the webinar:

• abstract of the webinar “ProfiCloud: IoT framework for remote industrial applications” from Philippe Saey, Mathieu Troch, Dimitri De Schuyter, Arne Verhoeven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven;
• abstract of the webinar “PROFIenergy: smart energy savings using PROFINET” from Philippe Saey, Mathieu Troch, Dimitri De Schuyter, Arne Verhoeven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven;
• presentation "ProfiCloud: IoT framework for remote industrial applications" by Philippe Saey, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven;
• Video-presentation: ProfiCloud: IoT framework for remote industrial applications;
• presentation “PROFIenergy: smart energy savings using PROFINET” by Philippe Saey, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven;
• Video-presentation: PROFIenergy: Smart Energy Saving using PROFINET.

On December 1, 2020, the webinar and master class (online on Zoom platform) "Education Industry 4.0 on the online learning system Festo LX” were held in frames of the Erasmus+ project 609939-EPP-1-2019-1-BE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP "Boosting the role of HEIs in the industrial transformation towards the Industry 4.0 paradigm in Georgia and Ukraine (HEIn4)”. The speakers were Mr. Ievegn Ryzhenko, FESTO Group Ukraine, and Prof. Iryna Nyenno, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University. All participants of the event were granted with free access to the Festo LX system for 2020 with the possibility of certification and formation of own courses. Education on the platform provides the opportunity to form the own competencies after learning of so-called "nuggets" - or bits of values in learning. Pilot training on the course "Value Stream Analysis and Mapping" has already been successfully completed by the Project Coordinator, Doctor of Economics, Prof. Irina Nyenno. It is also planned to certify the course "Introduction to Automation and Robotics ".

The monthly coordination meeting of project partners was held on-line via Skype for Business on 26/11/2020. The main objective of the meeting was the discussion of the project performance and reaching the agreements on the following questions:
- approval of meeting report of 22/10/2020;
- evaluation and further planning of webinars;
- overview of the project workpackages and plan of project activities;
- discussion of the internal area of the project website;
- purchase of equipment for learning labs: overview per partner university;
- administrative issues related to the publications and subcontracting;
- state of the art with quality control measures (Reference Groups);

- dissemination of the project;
- administrative and financial issues;
- analysis of the evaluation reports from preventive project monitoring in Georgia and Ukraine;
- any other questions from project partners;
- approval of the date for next coordination meeting.

Access to the consortium meeting by the link.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes;
• Planning of webinars (v. 03122020).

HEIn4 partnership makes efforts to implement the project in the conditions of COVID_19 restrictions and continues to work in online format on the study of European practices in the subject area of HEIn4 project.

Development of the effective research collaboration of universities and industry is one of the priorities of HEIn4 project. On November 24th 2020 Mr. Rafael Pedrosa from the Instituto Politécnico do Porto has gave the webinar on the topic “Research Collaboration involving HEIs and Industry - R&D contracts”. Rafael Pedrosa  presented the existing practices of collaboration with industry: general approaches, involvements and motivation of researchers , IPR aspects and trends in development of such collaboration. Participants of the webinar learnt the IPP practices and discussed relevant challenges – all this will serve for the modernization of the cooperation strategies at HEIn4 partner universities in Georgia and Ukraine.

Date and time of the webinar: November 24th, 2020,  from 10:00 to 11:00 CET.

Access to the webinar by the link.

Materials of the webinar:

• Abstract of the webinar “Research Collaboration involving HEIs and Industry R&D contracts” from Rafael Pedrosa, Instituto Politécnico do Porto;
• Presentation “Research Collaboration involving HEIs and Industry - R&D contracts”;
• list of participants.

On November 12th and 13th 2020, within the framework of the Erasmus+ project "Boosting the role of HEIs in the industrial transformation towards the Industry 4.0 paradigm in Georgia and Ukraine", a practice-oriented seminar took place at the Donetsk National Technical University. The seminars were organized by "FESTO" - the leader and famous company in the field of professional technical training in automation and mechatronics. The main topic of the studying seminar was "Key requirements for modern production in the context of Industry 4.0. Mechanisms of smart factory and production of the future".

Teachers of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ecology and Chemical Technologies were the main participants of the seminars. 12 teachers from 4 departments participated in two days sessions. Skills of reading and assembling pneumatic and electrical diagrams, the use of different types of distributors in the diagrams were successfully developed by all participants. According to the results of the seminars, it is planned to take active part in the training webinars of European partners for Ukrainian teachers.

Documents and materials of the seminar:

• Programme;
• Participants;
• Attendance list;
• Training materials;
• Certificates.

EU partners continues to deliver the series of webinars on different topics of Industry 4.0

During the webinar Katholieke Universiteit Leuven presented the “Smeart Health: IoT framework for clinical trials – Co-Creation environment” and “EDUCAT - An open, modular and adaptive framework for clinical trials”. The webinar from KUL was focused on the novel approaches for data management and “cloud” database.

Instituto Politécnico do Porto gave the webinar on the topic “Open Design, Open Process and Open Production”. The webinar was focused on the Open Approach settled in a platform towards the fast-growing community. Due to relevant role of Manufacturing, during this webinar, Open Design, Open Process and Open Production perspectives were presented as a Neo-Industrialization and its potential relation with Industry 4.0.

Date and time of the webinar: November 10th, 2020,  from 11:00 to 12:00 CET.

Access to the webinar by the link.

Materials of the webinar:

- abstract of the webinar “Smeart Health: IoT framework for clinical trials – Co-Creation environment” from Mathieu Troch, Arne Verhoeven, Philippe Saey, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven;

- video-presentation IoT  Smart Health Framework;

- presentation “Smeart Health: IoT framework for clinical trials – CoCreation environment”;

- presentation “EDUCAT An open, modular and adaptive framework for clinical trials”;

- example of “EDUCAT – short measurement visualization”;

- video “IoT Smart health Framework”;

- abstract of the webinar “Open Design, Open Process and Open Production” from Hélio Castro and Paulo Ávila, Instituto Politécnico do Porto

Iryna Nyenno, professor of the Department of Management and Innovations, Head of the Centre “Innovation Office”, co-coordinator of the HEIn4 project at the I.I.Mechnikov National University, was invited as the trainer to at Autumn School “transfer of Technologies and Innovations: European and Ukrainian Experience”. 

Topic of training given by Prof. Iryna Nyenno: Change of Universities Business Models in the Context of Transfer of Ideas to Society Under Conditions of Industry 4.0.

Autumn School “Transfer of Technologies and Innovations: European and Ukrainian Experience” will provided the extract of possibilities for financing of innovations including prototyping by Tech Labbino, support of enterprenership in the educational system by British Council and many other useful initiatives and experiences.

Autumn School was arranged online on November 3rd and November 4th 2020. Live broadcast by this link.

Programme of the Autumn School “Transfer of Technologies and Innovations: European and Ukrainian Experience”

Presentation “Change of Universities Business Models in the Context of Transfer of Ideas to Society Under Conditions of Industry 4.0”, Prof. Iryna Nyenno

European partners continue the series of webinar planned to mitigate the impacts on COVID_19 pandemic on the project.

On October 27 2020 the Instituto Politécnico do Porto gave the webinar “ Industry 4.0 – From the sensor to the cloud” dedicated to present the possibilities of practical application of modern Industry 4.0 technologies in industry and thus gave one of the examples of ongoing research activities at IPP. Pesenter: João Costa.

The target audience of the webinar was the academic and research staff of Georgian and Ukrainian universities.

The webinar started at 10:00 ECT and was delivered on the Zoom platform, access via the link.

Training materials: "Industry 4.0 – from sensor to the Cloud", João Costa

The webinar from the industrial project partner Daughter Enterprise “Festo” for the academic staff of the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine accomplished the seminar-training “Industry 4.0 on modern enterprises. Basics, key elements and practical application” delivered by Festo during the October 01 and October 02 2020 in Dnipro.

During the webinar the experts from Festo presented the system for distant education Festo LX and granted free access to all training materials until the end of 2020, gave final highlights on the topics of seminar-training and answered the questions from the participants.

At the final the participants of event were awarded with the Certificates confirming the participation in the seminar-training and raising of qualification in the subjects of Industry 4.0.

The webinar was held on a Zoom platform at 10:00 Ukrainian time, details for access were provided by project Co-coordinator in Ukraine.

Training materials: "Festo LX – The online portal for teachers and learners to access and create a customized learning experience", Ievgen Ryzhenko

The monthly coordination meeting of project partners was held on-line via Skype for Business on 22/10/2020. The main objective of the meeting was the discussion of the project performance and reaching the agreements on the following questions:
- approval of meeting report of 17 09 2020;
- webinars: overview of passed webinars;
- webinars: overview of planned webinars;
- website and tracing of passed activities;
- study of Teaching Methodology: input of EU partners;
- purchase of equipment: overview per partner university;
- monitoring by NEO;
- planning of further project activities apart from webinars;
- publications and subcontracting;
- administration and finances;
- any other business.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

Preventive monitoring of the project by the National Erasmus+ Office in Ukraine took place on October 21st 2020 in on-line format on Zoom platform. The purpose of the monitoring was to learn how the cooperation among project partners is organized and channels of communication established, to familiarize with the performed activities and achieved results so far, to discuss any problems faced by the project and to provide practical recommendations for the smooth performance of the project.

Participation in the monitoring meeting by the following link.

Documents and materials of the meeting:

• Programme of the project monitoring in Ukraine;
• Participants of the project monitoring in Ukraine;
• General presentation of the project performance in Ukraine;

• presentation of the project performance at the Donetsk National Technical University;

• presentation of the project performance at the Lutsk National Technical University;

• presentation of the project performance at the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine;

• presentation of the project performance at the Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University.

The webinar from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology  was led by Prof. Antonio Maffei, Head of the Department of Digital Smart Production, https://www.iip.kth.se/dsp

The programme of the webinar included general overview of KTH work in the area of Industry 4.0 and will focus on 3 development projects which are implemented in the framework of ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnerships:

-          Tiphys: an international school for manufacturing PhD students, online based, featuring VR support and co-creation of learning material;

-          MAESTRO: introduction of sustainability issues into renewal of engineering education;

-          ICARUS: a toolbox for the 4th industrial revolution for engineering educators.

You can take part in the webinar by this link.

On October 15th and 16th 2020, within the framework of the Erasmus+ project "Boosting the role of HEIs in the industrial transformation towards the Industry 4.0 paradigm in Georgia and Ukraine", a practice-oriented seminar was conducted at the Lutsk National Technical University. The topic of the event was "Key requirements for modern production in the context of Industry 4.0. Mechanisms of smart factory and production of the future". The seminar-training was attended by teachers from 4 faculties of Lutsk NTU: Technological Faculty, Machine-building Faculty, Computer Technologies Faculty and Business Faculty. The training was organized and conducted by the world-famous company in the field of automation and training "FESTO".

Documents and materials of the seminar:

• Programme;
• Participants;
• Attendance lists;
• Training materials;
• Certificates.

Preventive monitoring of the project by the National Erasmus+ Office in Georgia took place on October 14th 2020 in on-line format. The purpose of the monitoring was to learn how the cooperation among project partners is organized and channels of communication established, to familiarize with the performed activities and achieved results so far, to discuss any problems faced by the project and to provide practical recommendations for the smooth performance of the project.

EU partners have delivered the 1,5 hours webinar giving the examples of practical application of Industry 4.0 technologies in real industry and benefits provided by Industry 4.0 for businesses. 

Both presentations were much practical-oriented:
- “The b-remote project” from Prof. João Costa, Instituto Politécnico do Porto;
- “Code generation from MATLAB, code for industrial applications with PLCs. Industrial use case in ArcelorMittal Gent” from Prof. Philippe Saey, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Materials of the webinar:

• Abstract of the presentation from Prof. Philippe Saey;
• Presentation of Prof. Philippe Saey, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven;
• Presentation of Prof. João Costa, Instituto Politécnico do Porto.

The Regional Webinar has been organized by Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency and Business and Technology University within CBHE HEIn4 project on 7th of October, 2020 involving 16 members of 3 project partner Georgian universities.  Aim of the webinar was to raise awareness and train the audience in response to Industry 4.0 paradigm, inform the attendees about the innovation and technology trends in relation with 4th industrial revolution, Georgia’s innovation and technology potential and best practices from European Union.

Documents and materials of the seminar:

• Abstract of the webinar;
• Agenda;
• Attendance list;
• Training materials.

The seminar-training from Festo “Industry 4.0 on modern enterprises. Basics, key elements and practical application” took a place at the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine in the period from October 01 to October 02 2020.

The seminar-training was focused on the basic insights on Industry 4.0 and the impact of the rapidly developing Industry 4.0 technologies on the content of study programmes and teaching techniques at HEIs. Besides the fundamental and theoretical aspects of Industry 4.0 participants of the seminar-training has got the possibility to learn and to practice some Industry 4.0 technologies on the real equipment that was brought by Festo for this training.

After the 2 full days of physical training on the premises of NMAU the participants of the seminar will continue to learn the recommended web-resources and afterwards Festo will arrange the webinar to accomplish the training and issue the Certificates.

12 academic staff members form 6 departments (Department of Machinebuilding Technologies, Departament of Automation of Production Processes, Department of Theories of Metallurgical Processes and Chemistry, Department of Electrometallurgy, Department of Metallurgical Production Machines and Units, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electromechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computing Engineering ) took part in the seminar-training at NMAU.

Documents and materials of the seminar:

• Programme;
• Participants;
• Training materials;
• Certificates.

The webinar “The paradigms of industry 4.0” was delivered by Prof. Paulo Ávila from Instituto Politécnico do Porto on September 29th 2020 by means of the Skype for Business from 10:00 to 11:00 CET. Participants of the webinar has got the general introduction to the current trends in development and practical application of Industry 4.0 technologies and how these trends are addressed in higher education. Besides the presentation participants were able to put questions and to have the live discussions on the topic of the webinar.

Materials of the webinar are available here.

FESTO seminar-training “The concept of Industry 4.0 in the education of managers and economists: theory and practice” of the ERASMUS + HEIN4.0 project took place at Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University on the 25-26th of September 2020. The event was s a long-term training action concerned with the identification of key competencies of the specialist of the future, the differences between BIG DATA and SMART DATA.

About 20 representatives of the University teaching staff and guests participated in the sessions, deducted to the key competences of the professionals of Industry 4.0. SMART maintenance and the KPI, optimum industry structure and introducing of synchronization. All the participants  synchronized production according to the "CANBAN" system during the second day of the training by action learning and game simulation of the Industry 4.0 challenges.

Documents and materials of the seminar:

• Programme;
• Participants;
• Attendance list;
• Training materials – “Industry 4.0 and transformation of the higher education”;
• Training materials – “KANBAN as the Industry 4.0  component on the modern enterprises – basics, key elements and practical application”;
• Training materials – “Concepts of Integral Quality of the professional Management System” by Prof. Eduard Kuznetsov;
• certificates;
• video-kaleidoscope.

The 2nd coordination meeting of project partners was held on-line via Skype for Business on 17/09/2020. The main objective of the meeting was the discussion of the project performance and reaching the agreements on the following questions:
- approval of the report of coordination meeting held on 10/07/2020;
- presentation and approval of the EACEA survey about COVID_19 impact on the HEIn4 project;
- planning of webinars from EU partners;
- planning of the seminars/trainings by Festo;
- state of the art with the study of Industry 4.0 teaching methodology at EU universities;
- state of the art with literature study on HEIn4;
- selection and purchase of equipment;
- development of project website;
- questions on financial reporting;
- preparation of project monitoring;
- dissemination of project activities;
- planning of further project activities;
- other questions from partners.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Participants;
• Minutes.

Coordination meeting of Ukrainian project partners was held on the September 14 2020 on the Zoom platform. The meeting was organized and moderated by project Co-Coordinator Prof. Volodymyr Shatokha.

The meeting was devoted to the re-planning of the project Seminar (project activity 5.3) that was originally planned at Dnipro. A project consortium puts a lot of efforts to mitigate the impact of COVID_19 on the project and decided do not postpone the project Seminar and re-planned it even in more effective activity. Travelling within Ukraine is not restricted at the moment and partners have agreed the following scheme to hold the Seminar – Festo will visit each Ukrainian university (HEIn4 partner) and deliver the trainings on different aspects of Industry 4.0. The trainings will consist of the general introduction to Industry 4.0 and then focused on the specific topics selected by each university partner from the exhaustive list of topics available at Festo.

Besides the theoretical training Festo will bring the equipment and thus academic staff will be able to master the obtained knowledge on the real equipment. After the onsite trainings Festo will arrange the follow up webinar with each team in order to summarize the training results and answer the questions from academic staff.

After the successful completion of the training Festo will issue the certificate for each participant.

The initiative of trainings from Festo was approved by all partners who have agreed that all trainings must be performed until the end of October.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Minutes.

EU partners on September 7th 2020 hold the working meeting with a purpose to discuss the topics, framework and planning of the webinars to be delivered for Georgian and Ukrainian project partners.

Webinars will be delivered by EU partners as one of the measure to mitigate the impossibility to arrange the study visits of Georgian and Ukrainian project partners to EU. It is expected that webinars will give the introduction to the latest trends of Industry 4.0 in Europe and guide Georgian and Ukrainian project staff in the study of materials available in Internet until the quarantine restrictions are in place.

EU partners had achieved the progress with planning of the webinars that will be discussed further and agreed with Georgian and Ukrainian partners.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda;
• Planning of webinars from EU.

Coordination meeting of project partners was held on-line via Skype for Business on 10/07/2020. The objective of the meeting was detailed discussion of the agreements achieved on the kick-off meeting and planning of the independent work for a summer period.

More particularly, this meeting was focused on:
- facilitation of literature study on the topic of the project;
- discussion of the equipment necessary for implementation of the project;
- administrative and financial management.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda of the coordination meeting, 10/07/2020;
• Participants list, 10/07/2020;
• Attendance list, 10/07/2020;
• Minutes, 10/07/2020.

Due to the CORONA-19 restrictions the start of HEIn4 project activities and kick-off meeting of project consortium have been delayed. Universities, HEIn4 partners, were officially closed on quarantine with staff forced to work from homes. After a period of uncertainty project partners eventually adapted to new realities Partners have managed to negotiate the text and to conclude the internal Partnership Agreements and passed through procedures required for the state registration of the project in Georgia and Ukraine.

Due to mobility restrictions the project consortium has decided to hold the kick-off meeting in an on-line format by means of Skype for Business. The kick-off meeting was held on June 22nd 2020 with participation of all HEIn4 project partners. 

During the kick-off meeting the project coordinators/administrators from each partners presented themselves and their institutions with brief overview of the existing experience in the project area and expectations from the project. The project coordinator Mr. Geert De Lepeleer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) gave the presentation “Financial Management of the Grant” and explained the eligibility conditions or project activities and administrative requirements to the supporting documentation. Project co-coordinator Prof. Volodymyr Shatokha (National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine) delivered the presentation with detailed overview of the entire HEIn4 project including the project objectives, project activities and expected project deliverables.

Project partners have discussed the project rescheduling and analyzed future risks related to COVID-19 pandemic. Partners have decided to perform the project activities as much as possible via the on-line format, including webinars in September 2020 and preliminary planned the study visits to EU partners for autumn 2020 with a hope on improving of the situation with COVID-19.

The 2nd on-line meeting was held on July 7, 2020 and discuss the thematic area of the project and launch activities which will be possible to implement on-line. 

Before this meeting a List of recommended literature with relevant links was developed to assist acquaintance with cutting edge issues related to Industry 4.0 including didactic aspects. As a follow up, a draft Study of teaching methodology and curriculum in relation to Industry 4.0 was developed by BTU (Georgia) and KUL curriculum in Industry 4.0 context was summarised by LNTU (Ukraine).

The most important results of the kick-off meeting:

• project management team established;
• common vision of HEIn4 project by all partners;
• agreed measures to mitigate the COVID-19 impact on HEIn4 project.

Documents of the meeting:

• Agenda of the kick-off meeting;
• Attendance List of the of the kick-off meeting;
• Minutes of the kick-off meeting;
• Presentation of HEIn4 project;
• Presentation of “Financial Management of the Grant”.

Additional deliverables:

• List of recommended literature;
• Literature study;
• Draft Study of teaching methodology and curriculum in relation to Industry 4.0;
• Review of existing study programmes and courses related to the key Industry 4.0 technologiesю