On 3RD and 4th March the Consortium partners of 3D4KIDS project met in Barrow-in-Furness (UK), for the last Transnational meeting of 3D4KIDS project – “Secondary Education for and Through 3D Printing”, hosted this time by the coordinator of the project.

The Italian and Spanish partners were unable to attend the meeting because of COVID-19.
For this reason, they attended the meeting through a well and organized skype call.

The aim of the project is to promote the use of 3D printing in secondary schools. 3D4KIDS is funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ program, Key Action 2 (Strategic partnerships for innovation and the exchange of good practices) and the consortium of the project’s partners is composed by: Furness Academy (United Kingdom), IES José Luis Castillo-Puche (Spain), Srednja šola za oblikovanje Maribor (Slovenia), CEIPES (Italy), CETEM (Spain), STYRIAN TECHNOLOGY PARK (Slovenia) and Pristálica (Spain).

During the meeting the partners discussed about the past activities, and the ones to carry out before the end of the project (30 March 2020).

In addition, all the pilots organised in the various schools and the feedback received were shown.

This meeting was important because the results that the consortium of partners has collected over all 3 years have emerged even more.

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During the pilot, CEIPES’ 3D experts explained some technical infomation about the use of 3Dprinting and the great potencial of this technology in the teaching and learning system.

In particular, the students and teachers tested the exercises developped, the methodology for pilot and also the platform where all 3D models and exercises are allocated.

They also had the opportunity to experiment in a practical way with the 3D printer, by printing a new small object.

Thanks to teachers and students feedback Ceipes’ project Manager had the confirmation that it is possible to develop new kind of lesson that involved the traditional face-to-face methods and the new didattical tools, in this way the learning activities become even more attractive. On another hand the tactical manipulation of the printed objects was very useful for children who have Specific Learning Disorders.

The students who participated in the pilot phase, were very enthusiastic about the activity carried out recognizing the potential in using this kind of technology during the lesson and they gave to Ceipes these feedback thanks to the Inital and final evaluation questionnaires they filled out.

Now, Ceipes is working on the results of this test to understand in depth the strengths and weaknesses of the project and to improve the tools created.

3D4KIDS project aims at promoting the use of 3D printers in secondary schools. It is a project funded by the European Commission within the Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2 (Strategic Partnership for innovation and the Exchange of good practices).

The consortium partner that is carrying out the project activities is composed by: Furness Academy (United Kingdom), IES José Luis Castillo-Puche (Spain), Srednja šola za oblikovanje Maribor (Slovenia), CEIPES (Italy), CETEM (Spain), STYRIAN TECHNOLOGY PARK (Slovenia), Pristálica (Spain).

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3D4KIDS aims to promote the use of 3D printing in secondary school and it is funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2 (Strategic partnerships for innovation and exchange of good practices). 

The consortium of the project’s partners is composed by: Furness Academy (United Kingdom), IES José Luis Castillo-Puche (Spain), Srednja šola za oblikovanje Maribor (Slovenia), CEIPES (Italy), CETEM (Spain), STYRIAN TECHNOLOGY PARK (Slovenia) and Pristálica (Spain).

During the meeting the partners discussed about the last activities, and the ones to carry out before the end of the project (30 March 2020).

In particular, the following topics have been discussed:

• The online and multilingual platform that will contain the 30 3D printing exercises developed so far and its own App version.
• The design of the networking database which will contain the data of schools and teachers in accordance with the GDPR document;
• The methodology for the development of the pilot phase;
• The various pilot phases that each school will conduct in their own country.
• Project dissemination and management activities;
• The ETwinning Platform.

The partners will meet again on 3rd and 4th March in Barrow hosted by the project coordinators for the last meeting.

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3D4KIDS aims at promoting the use of 3D printers in secondary schools. It is a project funded by the European Commission within the Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2 (Strategic Partnership for innovation and the Exchange of good practices).

The consortium partner that is carrying out the activities is composed by: Furness Academy (United Kingdom), IES José Luis Castillo-Puche (Spain), Srednja šola za oblikovanje Maribor (Slovenia), CEIPES (Italy), CETEM (Spain), STYRIAN TECHNOLOGY PARK (Slovenia), Pristálica (Spain).

During the meeting the partners involved, could discuss about some key points of the project, especially about:

• The methodologies that the partners developed for the creation of 3D printing exercises;
• the exercises developed in 3D by each partner that will be tested during the pilot phase of the project by the teachers and the students. In this phase the technical partners CETEM showed us all exercises printed in 3D;
• the online platform that will be developed to contain the exercises and to add new ones;
• the design of the networking database that will contain data from schools and providers according to the GDPR document.
• the metodology for developing the pilot phase;
• dissemination activities and project managment and financial issues;
• the ETwinning platform.

The meeting was very productive and all the partners demonstrate the great results obtained.

As hosting partner, STP and SSOM organized local tours like:

• A visit in the 3DMED startup that deals with making medical material using 3D printing technologies.

• A visit in the Doorson facilities, a company that deals with the construction of sliding and anti-panic doors for public buildings. This has included 3D printing technology in its production process, developing a 3D printer and a material specifically designed for the development of their products together with a collaboration with a local university.

• A tour in the SSOM school, in which we could see the efficiency and quality of the courses provided and the use of new technologies for both the fashion sector, product design and graphic sector.

The next TM will be in Cartagena (Spain) on the 16th and 17th October 2019.

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The project aims at promoting the use of 3D printers in secondary schools. It is funded by the European Commission within the Erasmus+ program, Key Action 2 (Strategic Partnership for innovation and the Exchange of good practices).

The project activities are carried out by the following organizations: Furness Academy (United Kingdom), IES José Luis Castillo-Puche (Spain), Srednja šola za oblikovanje Maribor (Slovenia), CEIPES (Italy), CETEM (Spain), STYRIAN TECHNOLOGY PARK (Slovenia), Pristálica (Spain).

Thanks to the meeting the partners could discuss about some important points of the project like the following:

• The methodologies that the partners developed for the creation of 3D printing exercises.
• The exercises developed in 3D by each partner that will be tested during the pilot phase of the project by the teachers and the students. In this phase the technical partners also gave feedback on the feasibility of the exercises already developed and showed to the partners’ consortium some exercises printed in the 3D.
• The online platform that will be developed to contain the exercises and to add new ones.
• The Exploitation and Protection of Results in order to set the guidelines for Creative Common licenses of any of the results (reports, documents, exercises, etc.) produced.
• The data protection of schools and 3D providers collected for the database aimed at creating a network among stakeholders.
• The dissemination plan.

The meeting has highlighted a great advancement thanks to the results obtained.

As hosting partner, CEIPES organized local tours like:

• The Fablab@school in which, beyond the normal activity of Fablab, it was possible to see the new fields of application and the engineering of new technologies and materials for 3D printing.
• The Eco-fruit company in Bagheria, Palermo where it was possible to see a young Sicilian reality of company growth in biological products.

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Thanks to this meeting the partners could discuss about the start of art of the project, especially about:

• the development of 30 exercises that will be tested in the schools of 4 different countries
• the graphics and the website template that will be adopted for the project
• the models for a database of schools and companies (3D printing providers), aimed to create a network among stakeholders.

The meeting has highlighted a great advancement within the project milestones to reach the proposed results (this is a 3 years long project).

The project activities are carried out by the following organizations: Furness Academy (United Kingdom), IES José Luis Castillo-Puche (Spain), Srednja šola za oblikovanje Maribor (Slovenia), CEIPES (Italy), CETEM (Spain), STYRIAN TECHNOLOGY PARK (Slovenia), Pristálica (Spain).

Moreover, it is participating as associated partner the Secondary school “Giosuè Carducci” from Bagheria (Palermo) in Italy.

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The main objectives of the project are:

– to feed an industry that is in high growth as is the 3DP of their “target groups”: students

– to improve educational transversal skills of the students through the use of 3DP

– to heightened concentration of pupils with Attention Deficit Disorder

– to improve 3DP skills of secondary schools teachers without technologic background as the best way to transfer this innovative knowledge to 21st century students

– to work in a cross curricular way among Departments in schools so that this technology is not confined to a single subject area

– to use ICT and 3DP to develop innovative teaching and learning practices

– to know first-hand the educational systems in every country participating in the project

The project will be promoted by organization coming from 4 different European countries. The consortium is indeed composed by schools, small and medium enterprises, association and research centers coming from Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and Slovenia.

To achieve these goals, the consortium has defined the following intellectual outputs:

-Guide for teachers about how to develop designs of didactic exercises suitable to be 3D printed published under the open Creative Commons Licence.

– Open Catalogue of 3DP format exercises for improving skills of students on the different subjects of schools

– Innovative and intuitive software tool to contain the 3DP kits of exercises including a guide for 3DP focused on school education

– Networking software tool for connecting schools and 3D printing industry service providers that will make the school don’t depend on own 3D printers.

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The networking software for connecting schools and the industry is a very collaborative output. The first year of the project will be dedicated to carefully define its specifications and the rest of the project will be dedicated to be developed and fed and tested by the partnership.

Report of use of 3D printing in EU schools is the application and test of the previous results.  It will encompass not only the execution of the pilot test, but also the planning and feedback. For that Intellectual Output CEIPES will involve the associated secondary schools from Sicily that will participate in the pilot execution for free. The associated ship building company BAES will assist FURNESS during its execution.