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Our previous 3 Erasmus+ SPs have revealed that blended activities improve the intensive programs we offer to our students and that softs skills are key competences for nuclear engineers in a sustainable future.
Integrating these aspects however asked a lot of efforts of the academic and technical staff to cope and integrate it in the practical activities. But it also offered new opportunities in collaboration and outreach. From student’s perspective the relevance of the activities was not always clear and the quality of the output during the trainings was strongly influenced by degree of durability competences of the group members. These competences compromise inclusive collaboration, ethical and sustainable reflection, system thinking and sustainable actions. Among international student groups good communication is key to work on and improve these competences.
There are many formats of communications where engineers are involved in going from technical meetings, ICT tools, instructive video’s, mobile applications, written reports to even social media. Also, the target public can differ from experts in different disciplines to general public, from junior to senior, from one region to another even within Europe. The combination of both should be optimized in order to send and receive the correct message to a specific audience.
Recently, in many universities the role of AI in education is discussed on a high level and probably students are more exploring it than the professors. The applications of AI are numerous and can help certain communication goals or not.
In this new SP idea, we aim that students and professors learn from and with each other what the impact can be of a certain communication strategy for sending and receiving the right message, to explain the data and experiences they learned in the technical workshops correctly and to explore the opportunities of tools like AI, GIS,… in scientific communication to non-nuclear experts. This will be done during an intensive staff training, pre-training activities and F2F training for students in differ-ent disciplines (Environmental radioactivity, Security/RP, waste management, nuclear energy and nuclear medical applications). At the end of each F2F training a communication session/event to a non-expert audience (dissemination) will be organized.
We reach out for partners and associate partners to be involved in this SP.