OzU’s First Erasmus + Project as Coordinator

The Erasmus + Project “Open Educational Resources on Enabling Technologies in Wearable and Collaborative Robotics” (WeCoRD) was launched in September 2019 under the leadership of Özyeğin University as the consortium leader, and Ford Otomotiv Sanayi A.Ş., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, and  Universiteit Twente as the project partners. 

 

Led by Dr. Barkan Uğurlu, the OzU technical team made up of Dr. Özkan Bebek, Dr. Zeynep Karapars, Instructor Ali Gökkurt, Dr. Ramazan Ünal, and Dr. Ebru Kılıç Bebek, will work on the integration of enabling technologies in wearable robotics with graduate programs and relevant professional education programs in collaboration with the international partners over the course of 36 months. In this context, WeCoRD project aims to enhance the EU higher education capacity in teaching enabling technologies in wearable and collaborative robotics for medical and industrial applications to fill in the skill gap between, on the one hand, the industry and the labour market needs and, on the other hand, the quality, and quantity of the graduates.

 

 

WeCoRD brings together five internationally renowned institutions from Turkey, Belgium, Russia and the Netherlands to combine their advanced expertise on enabling technologies in a validated innovative course offer of excellence, extended with professionally produced open educational resources, and an online Virtual Lab aimed at accessibility and fostering implementation across Europe. The project partners will select the most relevant methods, tools, and findings in engineering, design and medical research to introduce them into curricula by producing four dedicated transdisciplinary modules. These will equip graduates with the right skills and with the mindset of future technology leaders.

 

The project’s kick-off meeting took place at Özyeğin University on November 22-23, 2019 with the participation of all project partners.