On 21 January 2025, the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair “Engineering for Society” and ROMATSA SA, hosted the Learning Information Systems for Aviation workshop. The event brought together academia and the Romanian air navigation services provider to review and shape the digital teaching tools being developed within the AVIONIC project.
Workshop focus — the Avionic Learning Platform
The central topic of the workshop was the Avionic Learning Platform, the main pedagogical deliverable of the Creative Digital Teaching and Learning for Green Air Transport and Logistics (AVIONIC) project. Participants saw a live presentation of the platform’s modules, its scenario-based learning design, and the way it integrates aviation-specific content with interactive teaching methods.
The format was deliberately designed to invite feedback from industry stakeholders. ROMATSA, as Romania’s air traffic services provider, brought operational expertise that helped identify where the platform’s content can be refined and where it can be expanded to cover additional aviation domains.
Why involve industry early
Aviation education has a long tradition of being shaped jointly by academia and industry — but in practice, this dialogue often happens too late, when curricula are already designed and digital tools are already built. The AVIONIC workshop model reversed that pattern: industry stakeholders were brought in during the development phase, with concrete deliverables to review and improve.
This approach has two practical benefits:
- the adoption path is smoother, because industry partners are already familiar with the tool before it reaches the broader market
- the final product is more relevant to actual industry needs and operational contexts
Outcomes and next steps
The workshop produced a clear list of feedback points that the AVIONIC project team integrated in the months that followed. The Avionic Learning Platform continued to evolve until its formal launch at the project’s closing conference in Madrid in September 2025.