During this Erasmus+ project, the partnership of Belgian and Slovakian secondary schools shared important knowledge and practices about “energy”
applications, realising the defined project goals.  “Energy management” was the new focus to strengthen the existing international strategic partnership, sharing expertise, exchange of good practices and transnational cooperation for the implementation of new technologies.

Our project realised following objectives:
Secondary education teachers and students:

1. get better understanding of energy flows in an actual domestic situation with solar panels, electric car and two electric bicycles;

2. increased awareness about the relation between energy and climate change and the impact of reducing energy consumption, in relation to different national policies (Belgium and Slovakia);

3. improved their competences (insight, knowledge and practice) about engineering, Internet of Things (IoT), ICT, artificial intelligence, mathematics (STEAM) related to energy solutions;

4. improved intercultural competences by working in co-creation with other nationalities realising awareness that these global challenges can only be solved in cooperation across borders.

In this 2 year project (extended to 3 years, because of COVID), we made an integrated smart energy lab setup developed in co-creation between the partner schools. Students measured and analysed energy flows in current domestic applications and students were made aware of their energy and sleep energy  consumption and how to reduce. Students made a set up with renewable energy (solar panels) and measured the generated energy and learned how a battery (from an e-bike) can be loaded. Therefore we added smart devices and IoT-technology to better control and manage the energy flows, in this way increasing energy efficiency and lowering the consumption. Through 5 learning/teaching/training mobilities of 28 students and 10 teachers within the partnership schools, exchange of best practices and understanding of intercultural differences in energy management is realised. During open door days and presentations of final works our project was disseminated to a bigger public such as younger students, industrial partners.