AVIONIC Project Closing Conference — Madrid, September 2025

On 19 September 2025, the AVIONIC project team gathered in Madrid, Spain for the closing conference of the Creative Digital Teaching and Learning for Green Air Transport and Logistics (AVIONIC) project. The event marked the completion of a multi-year collaboration between European universities and industry partners, focused on building modern digital tools for aviation education.

Launch of the Avionic Learning Platform

The headline moment of the conference was the official launch and demonstration of the Avionic Learning Platform — the central deliverable of the project. The platform brings together interactive teaching modules, digital case studies, and learning scenarios designed for higher-education courses in air transport and logistics.

Conference participants — including academics, project partners, and industry stakeholders — were guided through the platform’s features and the pedagogical reasoning behind its design. The demonstration confirmed that the platform is ready for integration into university curricula and for use by both students and faculty in the aviation field.

Project wrap-up and lessons learned

Beyond the platform launch, the closing event served as a moment to reflect on what the project achieved across its full duration:

  • a series of student and teacher workshops held across partner institutions
  • the development of digital teaching materials aligned with green aviation goals
  • partnerships strengthened between universities and aviation industry actors
  • documentation and dissemination of pedagogical methods that can be reused beyond the project’s lifetime

The closing conference brought the consortium together one last time in a formal setting, providing space for partners to discuss sustainability of the results and future collaboration opportunities.

Creative Digital Teaching And Learning For Green Air Transport And Logistics

The AVIONIC Project represents the kind of European-level cooperation that helps modernise university teaching in a sector — aviation — where the gap between fast-moving industry practice and traditional pedagogy can be wide. The closing conference confirmed that the project’s outputs will continue to be available to the wider academic community.

Conferința Dialoguri despre Educație

În zilele de 19 și 20 aprilie 2024, am participat la prima ediție a conferinței Dialoguri despre Educație, organizată de Academia Română — Filiala Iași. Conferința a marcat începutul unui forum dedicat reflecției despre transformările contemporane ale educației, reunind cercetători, profesori și practicieni interesați să discute deopotrivă probleme teoretice și soluții aplicate.

Lucrări prezentate

În cadrul conferinței am susținut două lucrări, ambele axate pe instrumente concrete pentru modernizarea actului educațional:

Metoda CARTA: Adaptarea conținutului pentru formarea online

Lucrarea propune un cadru metodologic — Metoda CARTA — pentru adaptarea conținutului educațional la specificul mediului online. Mai mult decât simpla mutare a materialelor din sala de curs în format digital, metoda propune o reconstrucție a logicii pedagogice astfel încât învățarea să rămână eficientă în absența interacțiunii fizice.

Podcastul ca Instrument Educațional: Studiu de Caz Români

A doua lucrare analizează potențialul podcastului ca mediu educațional, plecând de la situația din România. Lucrarea documentează cum un format gândit inițial pentru divertisment poate deveni un instrument serios de educație continuă — accesibil, scalabil și adaptat ritmului de viață al adulților care învață.

dialoguri despre educatie retrospectiva

  • Gazdă: Academia Romana
  • Locatie: Iasi, Romania
  • Data: 19 & 20th of April 2024
AVIONIC Project

About the AVIONIC project

Creative Digital Teaching And Learning For Green Air Transport And Logistics – AVIONIC Project

 

 

Creative Digital Teaching And Learning For Green Air Transport And Logistics

The project activities are folded in three categories: sharing the knowledge on innovative methods for teaching and learning and identification of digital and green skills in air transport; developing new curricula and teaching and learning materials; developing new digital tools for interactive teaching and learning as OER. 

 

The implementation of these activities will be ensure through a solid project management and extensive dissemination of the results. 

More about the project here.

Knowledge Alliance in Air Transport Project

The Erasmus+ project “Knowledge Alliance in Air Transport” (KAAT) coordinated University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and involving 5 partners 11 associates from 5 countries.

KKAT Project Partners

One of the project deliverables was the Report on Qualifications in Air Transport which presents a state of the art on qualifications from air transport industry, including an analysis of 30 qualifications within the field. An important part of this work consists in clarifying the relationships between occupations, skills/ competences and qualifications.

The analysis on qualifications in aviation may be considered as “special” due to safety and security requirements and possibly the existence of environmental externalities. According to various economic studies, however, there is little or no evidence that aviation has unique economic and human resources characteristics, compared to other modes of transport and service industries. 

The key to addressing the dynamic and rapid transformations shaping the aviation sector is the establishment and application of good regulatory practices and, more broadly, good governance – the institutional, regulatory, and policy frameworks in which air transport is designed, implemented and managed.