CEI Extraordinary Call for Proposals
2020
Application Form
Extraordinary Call for Proposals 2020 _ Application Form
1. General Information
1.1. Title
Title and acronym, as appropriate, of the Activity
E- INNOVATION: Digital solutions for classical Physics experiments
1.2. Applicant
Country, name and brief description of the Applicant's organisation
Romania, Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara (Politehnica University Timișoara): a
university of advanced research and education, one of the traditional Romanian schools,
nationally and internationally recognized through the work of outstanding teachers and
academics. The mission of Politehnica University Timișoara resides in meeting the
competence requirements of the society by providing superior training at undergraduate,
graduate and postgraduate levels.
1.3. Legal status of the Applicant
Legal status of the Applicant (public body, private entity, NGO, international organisation or other, and
reference to type of documentation attached as registration proof)
Public university
1.4. Intended date and place of implementation
Please refer to the exact date and place of the proposed Activity
10.10.2020, Politehnica University Timișoara, Fundamental of Physics for Engineers
Department, Timișoara Romania
1.5. Requested CEI Grant
Up to a maximum amount of 40.000,00 €
10.140,00 €
1.6. Selected core sector
Please refer to point 2 of the Call for Proposals (Areas of intervention) and tick the selected core sector of
your project (only one)
1. Healthcare and telemedicine
2. Education and e-learning
3. Support to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
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2. Description of the activity
2.1. Origin and background (max 1500 characters)
Please provide a brief description of the motivations that led to the presentation of the current proposal
There are special times for education, when education has to go “online”, as laboratory
classrooms are unavailable, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemics.
Still,“INNOVATION is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat” (Steve
Jobs).
The general context for the current proposal is to overcome the logistical difficulties of
the small department “Fundamental of Physics for Engineers”, rising from the lack of
access to especially equipped classrooms: the classroom meetings with students have
been suspended and the educational courses are taking place online.
Due to the extraordinary nature of the Call, the quick implementation date and to the fact
that we want a large number of students to benefit from the proposed educational
solutions, there will be two persons responsible for the organization, implementation and
management of the activities: lect.dr.ing. Beatrice Costache (Fundamentals of Electrical
Engineering and Electronics) and lect.dr.phys. Marius Costache (Physics).
Physics is the foundation of any engineering activity and Physics laboratory courses
need practical experiments, not simple simulations as provided by most software offers.
2.2. Description, objectives and expected results (max 4000 characters)
Please describe clearly and in very practical terms the intervention logic and the activities of your project
vis-à-vis the selected core sector. Clearly indicate related expected results and which is the benefit that
your Activity will bring to which target groups(s). Please make sure to be as specific as possible.
Applying theoretical knowledge in engineering practice is a challenge for nowadays
students. Engineering education should take advantage of every new technology, fixing
any novel acquisition through demonstrations and practice.
SELECTED CORE SECTOR: EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING.
The project aims at offering an effective educational tool for TEACHERS, to acquire data
and carry out experiments in their home environment and sharing them online to the
students, to help them understand real physical phenomena. Thus we try to overcome
the logistical difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemics and avoid the use of virtual
experiments and simulation data, creating a material basis with digital solutions for
classical Physics experiments.
TARGET GROUP: STUDENTS FROM CEI EU AND NON-EU MEMBER STATES.
We target at ensuring quality education and quality distance learning and expect to form
practical abilities and useful engineering skills for students studying “General Physics”
and “Fundamentals of Electricity” (courses compulsory for first and second year
students) of several CEI member states (Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Poland).
EXPECTED RESULTS: PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS WITH THE AID OF ARDUINO
MICROCONTROLLER.
The proposed educational activities (computer assisted Physics) will be implemented
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using the ARDUINO microcontroller, a programmable open-source circuit-board, based
on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read an input signal
(pressure, light) and turn it into an output signal (activation of a motor, turning on of a
LED), collecting and displaying digital data. The Arduino IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) is a free-software licensed application written in C and C++, operating in
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The large choice of available sensors (temperature,
humidity, magnetic, pressure, IR emission/receiver, ..) offer flexibility in describing a
large range of fundamental physical phenomena.
There are several STEPS FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE PROPOSAL:
- purchase of the Arduino equipment;
- development of several Physics experiments (for example, study of the
gravitational force, Newton’s laws of motion, friction forces, Optics, Faraday’s law
of induction, Ohm’s law);
- tutorials describing the experiments, to be easily accessible to students;
- online realisation of experiments in the online presence of students (using an
online streaming platform);
- public dissemination of results in dedicated websites and research journals to
ensure the benefits of developed solutions to a large number of persons.
2.3. Target group(s)1
Please indicate which target group(s) from which CEI Member State(s) will benefit from your Activity.
Please provide also tentative numbers
Target group Tentative
number
Albania
Belarus
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Hungary
Italy
Moldova Erasmus students 20
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Poland Erasmus students 5
Romania Students, Teachers, Education Operators 500
Serbia Erasmus students 20
Slovakia
Slovenia
Ukraine
TOTAL 545
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Target groups: 1) students; 2) teachers; 3) education operators; 4) doctors; 5) patients; 6) health operators;
7) citizens; 8) entrepreneurs; 9) other (please specify).
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2.4. Compatibility with the requirements of the Call (max 1500 characters)
Please explain how the proposed activity meets the requirements of the Call, in particular the provisions of
Chapter 2 (Areas of Intervention) and Chapter 6.3 (Eligible Activities and Eligible Expenses)
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemics has suspended the educational meetings in
classrooms, rousing the challenge to find alternative ways of providing quality education
to students.
The small department “Fundamental of Physics for Engineers” of the Politehnica
University Timișoara (a public university) proposes digital solutions to classical Physics
experiments to be carried out in home environment, overcoming the logistical difficulties
due to the fact that laboratory classrooms are unavailable. Several Physics experiments,
based on real data collected with the Arduino microcontroller, will be developed and
shared online to the students, to form useful engineering skills.
The recently launched "COVID-19 Extraordinary Call for Proposals, for projects in fields
of healthcare, education & MSMEs" is warmly welcomed, the current proposal aiming to
enable through the CEI-grant the PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT FOR E-LEARNING
PURPOSES, and develop and disseminate experiments in the area of Physics, to
facilitate transfer of scientific knowledge between and among education experts and
operators belonging equally to CEI EU Member States and CEI non-EU Member States.
We aim to act quickly and efficiently in the INTERVENTION AREA 2. EDUCATION AND
E-LEARNING/DISTANCE LEARNING and provide effective remote educational tools for
teachers and students of CEI Member States (Romania, Moldova, Serbia and Poland).
2.5. CEI visibility (Max 1500 characters)
Please describe which actions you are planning to ensure adequate CEI visibility, including dissemination
activities in the post-implementation phase
CEI visibility can be ensured through the design of a dedicated website, publicly
available on the Politehnica University Timisoara official website. Dissemination through
social media and press articles will also be targeted.
The use of ARDUINO microcontroller in didactics is a new and up-to-date research
domain, being used to enliven and enhance lessons and make them more attractive to
students. Experiments can be described in academic journals, indexed in prestigious
international databases, such as Web of Science– the highest degree of recognition and
visibility a scientific/didactic wok can obtain. To ensure the maximum CEI visibility, each
published paper will contain in the “Acknowledgement” section the sentence “This
activity has received funding from the Central European Initiative”.
We intend to propose papers to academic journals such as ROMANIAN REPORTS IN
PHYSICS or REVUE ROUMAINE DES SCIENCE TECHNIQUES. The CEI-logo can be
added to books dedicated to the dissemination of the project’s results. The tutorials can
be published by the POLITEHNICA Publishing House (Timișoara, Romania), founded in
1996 to support the educational process. International visibility of the Central European
Initiative and CEI-logo can be achieved also through the publication in a book series
dedicated to the project, ensured by TRIVENT-PUBLISHING House (Budapest,
Hungary), “Exact Sciences” Series, with the title “Engineering the E-Challenge:
Improving Creativity and Engineering Skills through Experiments”.
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3. Organisation and administration
3.1. Legal representative of the Applicant Institution
First Name and Family Name: Florin Drăgan
Official position: Rector of Politehnica University Timișoara
Institution: Politehnica University Timișoara
Address: Victoriei Square, No.2, 300006, Timișoara, jud. Timiș, Romania
Telephone: +40256403011
Fax: +40256403021
Email:
[email protected],
[email protected]Website: https://www.upt.ro
3.2. Person responsible for the implementation and final reporting
First Name and Family Name: Beatrice Costache
Official position: Lecturer, Dr-Ing.
Institution: Politehnica University Timișoara,
Address: Av. Vasile Pârvan, No.2, 300223, Timișoara, jud. Timiș, Romania
Telephone: +40256403391
Fax: -
Email:
[email protected]Website: https://www.et.upt.ro/ro/departaments/bazele-fizice-ale-ingineriei
3.3. Person responsible for financial management and final accounting
First Name and Family Name: Daniela Hudac
Official position: Head of Accounting Office
Institution: Politehnica University Timișoara
Address: Victoriei Square, No.2, 300006, Timișoara, jud. Timiș, Romania
Telephone: +40256403155
Fax: -
Email:
[email protected]Website: http://www.upt.ro/Informatii_UPT_536_ro.html
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4. Budget
4.1. Detailed estimated budget
Please provide a detailed budget estimate, indicating all the amounts in Euro according to the format €
1000,00 and add budget lines as needed.
Please insert for each budget item:
• a short description
• estimated unit cost per participant or per item of equipment or other resource
• estimated subtotal related to that budget item
Budget line Unit cost Subtotal
1. ORGANISATION AND ADMINISTRATION
1.1. Human Resources (man hour/day/month cost as
appropriate)
Minimum cost for human resources in Romania € 400/month
There are 6 months estimated for implementation and €2400/6months
dissemination
There are 2 persons and 6 months necessary for organisation
and implementation of the project:
Lect. dr. ing.Beatrice Costache €2400,00
Lect.dr.phys. Marius Costache €2400,00
Subtotal 1.1. € 4800,00
1.2. Administrative costs (office supplies, postage, website,
etc.)
Website for teachers and students – offered by the €0
“Politehnica” University Timișoara
Subtotal 1.2. € 0,00
1.3. Communication/promotion costs (graphic design, printing,
translations, etc.)
Online promotion material on website for teachers and students €0
– offered by the “Politehnica” University Timișoara
Subtotal 1.3. € 0,00
2. PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT
2.1. (Type of equipment and number of units)
ARDUINO UNO R3 board – 10 units €10 €100
ARDUINO LEONARDO R3 board – 10 units €15 €150
Kit ARDUINO power supply cable + breadboard + 65 jumper €10 €100
wires – 10 units
Components for ARDUINO Starter Kit – 2 units €20 €40
Communication Module for ARDUINO – 10 units €20 €200
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ARDUINO Starter Kit - 2 units €150 €300
Robofun ARDUINO Kit – 2 units €80 €160
ARDUINO 37-in-1 Sensors Kit – 4 units €50 €200
Voltage and Current sensor for Arduino – 8 units €10 €80
ARDUINO Distance Sensor – 10 units €10 €100
Light Sensor compatible with Arduino – 8 units €15 €120
Heart Rate Detection Sensor – 2 units €10 €20
Capacitive Microphone – 4 units €5 €20
Magnetometer compatible for Arduino – 4 units €10 €40
Magnetic Hall Sensor – 4 units €10 €40
Stepper Motor – 2 units €40 €80
Stepper Motor Driver – 2 units €20 €40
LCD TFT 3.5” Arduino shield – 2 units €25 €50
Arduino Shield LCD – 4 units €20 €80
Relay Module compatible with Arduino – 4 units €15 €60
Power Supply for Arduino – 4 units €15 €60
Kit for Physics (Mechanics) Experiments – 1 unit €800 €800
Kit for Physics (Electricity and Magnetism) Experiments – 1 unit €800 €800
Subtotal 2.1. € 3640,00
3. PRODUCTION OF INFORMATION MATERIAL
3.1. (Elaboration, realisation, dissemination, etc.)
Tutorials published at the POLITEHNICA Publishing House, RO €400 €400,00
Book series “Engineering the E-Challenge: Improving Creativity €1000 €1000,00
And Engineering Skills Through Experiments”,
Trivent-Publishing, HU
Subtotal 3.1. € 1400,00
4. ORGANISATION OF ONLINE SEMINARS (WEBINARS)
4.1. (Elaboration, realisation, video production, dissemination,
streaming, etc.)
ZOOM Basic Platform – offered by the “Politehnica” University €0
Timișoara
Subtotal 4.1. € 0,00
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5. TRANSLATION COSTS
5.1 Provided by human resources €0
Subtotal 5.1 € 0,00
6. OTHER (please specify)
Drawing Tablet for PC for online Physics lessons – 2 units € 150 € 300,00
Subtotal 6 € 300,00
TOTAL € 10140,00
Co-financing (if any; if applicable)
Amount: _________
Donor/provider: _______
Budget lines tackled: _______
This form was completed by: Beatrice Costache
Date: 07.04.2020
