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Supporting the Growth of Electric Vehicle Market Through the E-DRIVETOUR Educational Program

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2023)

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This paper focuses on one of the current great challenges of electric vehicle technology, the implementation of a highly technical curriculum, especially under the COVID-19 restricted environment. The presented training program is designed to cater to the automotive market regarding basic electric vehicle skills for engineers. The most notable part of the training program is the blended teaching approach. The trainees attended typical online lectures being available in a synchronous and an asynchronous manner. Significant part of the training are the two teaching mobilities during which the students participate in technical experiments and work on projects based on Augmented Reality and developed on the principles of a project-based learning approach. The training is completed via a short industrial internship period. The paper elaborates lessons learnt from the piloting educational procedure and a thorough discussion on the sustainability of the program and its importance for the electric vehicle market.

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Acknowledgements

This project is a highly collaborative endeavour requiring intense contributions of a huge number of individuals. We regret that we cannot cite all their names here and want to express our thanks to them in this way. Some of them, however, gave particularly valuable input to the work programme published in this article without being cited as co-authors. Special thanks are therefore due to George Katranas, Panagiotis Maroulas, Krzysztof Gorski, Iwona Komorska, Costin Badica, Ionut Muraretu, Matteo Marino, Christos Ioakeimidis, Dimitris Margaritis, Fotis Stergiopoulos, Dimitris Bechtsis, Di-mitris Triantafyllidis, Panagiotis Tzionas, Triantafyllia Anagnostaki, Sofia Sarakinioti, Vasileios Kartanos and Emmanouela Maroukian.

The E-DRIVETOUR project [22] is financially supported by the European Commission in the Erasmus+ Programme under the project number 612522-EPP-1-2019-1-EL-EPPKA2-KA. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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  1. International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Theodoros Kosmanis & Dimitrios Tziourtzioumis

  2. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G-SCOP, 38000, Grenoble, France

    Andreas Riel

  3. ECQA GmbH, 3500, Krems, Austria

    Andreas Riel & Michael Reiner

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  3. Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble, France

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Kosmanis, T., Tziourtzioumis, D., Riel, A., Reiner, M. (2023). Supporting the Growth of Electric Vehicle Market Through the E-DRIVETOUR Educational Program. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Riel, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1890. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42307-9_13

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