Planned activities

Planned mobility actions

In the 2020/21 academic year, our primary goal is to start up and straighten the network and explore its potential. We want to become operational, visible, and we like to discover additional matching opportunities. We want to know each other education and research possibilities better.

We plan to make several teachers visit to provide the opportunity to:

• Guest lecturing MSc and PhD level,

• Guest consultation BSc, MSc thesis,

• Co-supervise MSc BSc thesis,

• Pilot a twin thesis system (same or similar topics at several partners),

• Project work for student-teams coming from different partners,

• Short term student mobility and

• Student mobility for a semester.

We plan two intensive courses, in Timisoara and Zagreb. We launch the Virtual Doctoral Workshop, which will be the primary arena for continuous networking among students and faculty members of our network partners and beyond.

Special contribution of partners

Each partner implements mutually determined actions. Additional partnership contributions are as follows:

Óbuda University, Budapest

We plan a coordinator meeting 2020 November, together with the CREE council meeting in Budapest. This international event will be a significant contribution to the ergonomics related campaign of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work on behalf of the Federation of European Ergonomics Societies. The Summer University on Ergonomics will be held on 7-9 July 2021, co-organised by the Hungarian and Austrian Ergonomics societies. As we have a leading role in the organisation, we will organize a joint doctorandus workshop here.

IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems

We want to establish Student and teacher exchange (all of our teachers are researchers also) with flexible short and long excursions. Up to now, we haven´t planned a summer school, but we are open starting a summer school on topics like VR/AR.

Technical University of Varna

We implement mutually determined actions and work on the joint program.

University of Zagreb

We plan a PhD workshop during the 8th International Conference Ergonomics 2020, which will be in December 2020 in Zagreb.

Poznan University of Technology

We implement mutually determined actions and work on the joint program.

Politehnica University of Timisoara

We plan a professional and a PhD workshop in Timisoara, during April 2021, when Timisoara will be European Capital Cultural in 2021. We offer our infrastructure facilities to develop learning resources and researches together with partners from the Network.

University of Belgrade

Ergonomics is a system factor that affects the quality of work, quality of production and products. The International Labour Organization (ILO), Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) and other prominent international organisations have been recognized ergonomics as an essential factor in achieving all aspects mentioned above of quality. However, it is crucial to apply a multidisciplinary approach in education to improve all these aspects of quality. Having that in mind, planned activities related to this project connects with the achievement of this interdisciplinary approach, based on:

• Short term and long term visits of ergonomic experts engaged in this project to UB-FME to realize presentations to students on contemporary topics in the area of ergonomics

• Short term visits of expert(s) from UB-FME to other universities that are participants in this project to present novel approaches and methods in the area of ergonomics

• Consultations directed to the improvement of the education process in ergonomics

• Participation in the creation of standard courses in the field of ergonomics that will be applicable in part or in all of the countries that participate in this project

• Receiving and sending ergonomic experts that will contribute through consultation to the realization of high-quality PhD theses of students.

University of Maribor

In the 2020-21 academic year, teachers and Master students from the University of Maribor plan to get better acquainted with the Ergonomics and Human Factors Regional Educational CEEPUS Network. For this purpose, we schedule visits of foreign partners to the University of Maribor and visits of teachers of the University of Maribor to partners abroad. We organize appointments with lecturers, round tables and exchange of educational knowledge. We are extremely interested in foreign teaching practices and practice with membership in European and global ergonomics societies.

From foreign institutions, we expect shearing of ergonomics knowledge which we would like to combine with our expertise on logistics systems. Our expertise is in modelling, processes and technological equipment in modern logistics systems. In this first year we would like to recognize the potential of incorporation of ergonomics topics in logistics curriculum, that would give us a starting point to engage master and PhD students in enriched study programs or to send them abroad to study ergonomics

Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra

We implement the mutually determined actions and will provide the IT support the competency to virtual networking activities.