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O4: Nano-Code digitally enhanced curriculum

Leader: R&D Center “Biointech”
Targets: higher education tutors and graduates; wider public
Type: Course / curriculum
Media: Internet
Languages: Bulgarian, English, German, Greek, Turkish

Background

The preliminary analysis of a survey among university graduates regarding the knowledge and skills related to application of Nanotechnology to fight COVID-19 showed demand for:

  • Skills related to working with advanced tools using Nanotechnology to help the medical, technical, and scientific communities to fight the pandemic (incl. detection, sanitation, therapies, and vaccines).
  • Skills, knowledge and competences to put the knowledge into practice in the community to support effective teaching/learning and education policies and initiatives.

Content

The Nano-Code educational curriculum “Nanotechnology to fight COVID 19” is:

  • Organised as Learning Outcomes in accordance with the Nano-Code innovative model for digital higher education to improve the accessibility to learning opportunities for university tutors and graduates.
  • Based on EQF principles.
  • Covering training content organised to fit the trainees’ educational background and demands.
  • Offered as modules, consisting of training units, presented as Learning Outcomes (LOs) constituted of knowledge, skills and the focus on autonomy and responsibility.

The Nano-Code Learning Outcomes are:

  • Structured as Learning Pathways in all partners’ languages.
  • Promoted as innovative content covering various aspects of Nanotechnology fundamentals and their application in different aspects of the fight against COVID-19.

The Nano-Code Learning Outcomes are organised in 6 modules, each containing 2 training units, as follows:

Module 1: Fundamentals of viral particles interaction with solids

  • Viral particles and functional Nanomaterials crossing point
  • Nanotechnology-enabled personal protection equipment

Module 2: Nanotechnology for antiviral disinfection

  • Improved and virus-disabling air filtration systems
  • Inanimate surfaces and disinfection methods

Module 3: Strategies for SARS-CoV-2 detection and disease diagnosis

  • Nanomaterials in design and application of SARS-CoV-2 detection methods
  • Nanotechnology in diagnostic techniques for SARS-CoV-2

Module 4: Nanotechnology and therapeutic solutions for COVID 19

  • COVID-19 therapeutics: Nanotechnology in antiviral treatments and vaccines
  • New platforms to control viral infections: Nano-scale carriers and drug delivery systems

Module 5: Nanotechnology in Food: emerging COVID 19 risks

  • Food and COVID-19
  • Transmission of COVID-19 by food and food packaging

Module 6: Ethical, legal and social aspects of Nanotechnology vs. COVID 19

  • Integration of social and ethical studies into Nanotechnology developments
  • Law and Nanoscience interface: legal doctrines relevant to Nanotechnology

O4: NANOTECHNOLOGY TO FIGHT COVID 19

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Where is the innovation?

The Nano-Code educational curriculum “Nanotechnology to fight COVID 19”:

  • Contributes to the innovative tendencies of using Nanotechnology against COVID-19.
  • Encourages the technological revolution of using Nanotechnology for solving global health problems.
  • Supports the transfer of knowledge and skills in Nanotechnology to support the European future.

What is the impact?

The Nano-Code educational curriculum “Nanotechnology to fight COVID 19” strives for:

  • Enrichment, updating, re-skilling of the target groups’ knowledge and practical attitudes in Nanotechnology.
  • Contributing to the establishment and support of Nanotechnology practical application by empowering university tutors and graduates to use the digital teaching and learning technology.
  • Supporting Learning Pathways to motivate the users to gain Nano-Code knowledge and practical skills.

Transferability potential

The Nano-Code educational curriculum “Nanotechnology to fight COVID 19” transfers:

  • experience in transnational cooperation
  • reinforcement in the knowledge and skills in Nanotechnology to fight COVID-19
  • educational tools to support the effective teaching/learning of university tutors and graduates in Nanotechnology
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