Toxicology Innovative Learning For Europe
▶Summary
The European Green Deal EU (Action Plan: 'Towards Zero Pollution for Air, Water and Soil', 2021), calls for the EU to better monitor, prevent and remedy air, water, soil and consumer product pollu...
▶Objectives
The project aimed to modernize of Toxicology and Ecotoxicology teaching in Europe and had several objectives: -develop and use innovative and free educational resources (online courses, interactive PBL) in order to develop high quality digital education - provide innovative content on current hot topics in the field of Toxicology/Ecotoxicology to fit with recent evolution of European Policy and with job market needs – stimulate interest of students for those fields and limit school dropout The project meets the needs of: - students by stimulating their interest, putting them back at the center of teaching through the use of active pedagogies adapted to digital practice to recreate interactions between students, between students and teachers, and by stimulating their motivation through playful approaches. - teachers by proposing stimulating online courses which can be integrated in their own courses, or by motivating them to design and create their own new innovative courses. - partners by modernizing part of their curricula. - stakeholders by developing student and lifelong learner competencies adapted to job market - European Commission by modifying curricula and developing courses adapted to the Green Deal.
▶Activities
The Erasmus ToxLearn4EU project was built by a consortium of 7 HEIs and 3 research centers and laboratory. The consortium has organized its work into 5 Work Packages: - WP1: Coordination and quality management - WP2: Communication and dissemination of project results - WP3: Priority and emerging pollutants - WP4: New approaches, methodologies and models - WP5: Risk assessment, policy and risk communication The ToxLearn4EU project proposed a series of complementary activities that follow logically on from each other during the three years of the programme in order to achieve the defined objectives: - creation of 9 Intellectual Outputs (see expected results below; R1 to R9) with approx. 750h of student workload (30 ECTS) - organization of 2 summer schools training 55 students (A1, A2) - management of 6 Transnational meetings to organize the project (TPM1 to TPM6) - organization of a series of dissemination events: 5 dissemination activities (oral communication, poster, webinar) which allowed regular communication on the project progress and its results (E1 to E5) and a final conference (E6)