About the project
"Internet of Things: Emerging Curriculum for Industry and Human Applications "
Reference number: 573818-EPP-1-2016-1-UK-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
This project is financed by the Erasmus+ programme, which aims to contribute to the Europe 2020 strategy for growth, jobs, social equity and inclusion, as well as the aims of ET2020, the EU's strategic framework for education and training. Erasmus+ also aims to promote the sustainable development of its partners in the field of higher education and contribute to achieving the objectives of the EU Youth Strategy.
The wider objective of curriculum development project ALIOT is to provide studies in the emerging field of Internet of Things (IoT) according to the needs of the modern society; to bring the universities closer to changes in global (Information and Communication Technology) ICT labour market and world education sphere; to give students an idea of various job profiles in different IoT domains.
Project duration: 3 years (15 October 2016 – 14 October 2019).
Project consortia includes Royal Institute of 
Technology (Sweden), Leeds Beckett University and Newcastle University (UK), Institute of Information Sciences & Technologies of the National Research Council (Italy), University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Ukrainian part of ALIOT consortia is represented by 10 partners, including the leading educational and scientific and production companies, state agencies and NGO.
National coordinator is National Aerospace University n. a. N. E. Zhukovsky "KhAI", c. Kharkiv.
Specific project objectives:
- to introduce a multi-domain and integrated IoT programme for master students in UA universities by September 2019;
- to introduce a multi-domain and integrated IoT programme for doctoral students in UA universities by September 2019;
- to provide the mechanism for intensive capacity building measures for UA ICT tutors by September 2019;
- to establish a multi-domain IoT Cluster Network in Ukraine by September 2019. This network will provide an environment for knowledge sharing and transfer as well as cross-fertilisation of innovative IoT-related research ideas and practices between the academic and industrial sectors.
Partnership:
- Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom
- University of Coimbra, Portugal
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Institute of Information Sciences & Technologies of the National Research Council, Italy
- National Aerospace University n.a. N. E. Zhukovsky “KhAI”, Ukraine
- Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine
- V. Dahl East Ukrainian National University, Ukraine
- Odessa National Polytechnic University, Ukraine
- Ternopil National Economic University, Ukraine
- Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine
- Zaporizhzhya National Technical University, Ukraine
- G.Ye. Pukhov Institute for Modelling in Energy Engineering, Ukraine
- IT ALLIANCE Education Industry Science, Ukraine
- SmartME University, Ukraine
Web-site: http://aliot.eu.org/