The project, gathering an educational multi-actor partnership: universities (as newest research and

development dissemination actors, responsible with the training course development — course development, implementation and evaluation), high schools (as teachers’ working real environment — teachers and their students as beneficiaries of the training program), teacher training institutions (as experienced institutions with adults’ training focused on educational activity, involved in the project for specific course delivery and teaching materials development), educational authorities (the actor responsible with the legislation related to organisation, implementation and evaluation of the educational process for the realisation of educational aims at pre-university level, involved in the project in the design and implementation of the training tool), and specialized institution in the content of the renewable energy systems implementation (knowledge-providers). The partnership involves education providers and beneficiaries from eight countries:

• Universities: Transilvania University of Brasov — the coordinator; University of Applied Sciences, Aachen, Germany; Hogeschool Gent, Belgium; Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands;

• High Schools: Marie Curie Highschool, Dzialoszyn, Poland; College for Natural Sciences, Brasov, Romania;

• Teacher training institutions: ASPETE, Patras, Greece; Associazione Kelidon, Milano, Italy; Teachers’ Centre, Brasov, Romania;

• School authorities: District School Inspectorate, Brasov, Romania; Izmir Province National Education Directorate, Turkey;

• Specialized institution: Romanian Agency for Energy Conservation.

The aim of the project is to develop a complex training tool in the field of sustainable energy,

consisting of:

• Teacher training materials: hard copy manual; a user friendly eLearning package — CD supported — for (self)training on experiments containing a laboratory guide, and a practical training kit. The training manual is aimed to ensure the continuation of the project after its end-date, further providing the information;

• A course for in-service training of the high school teachers, in the field of sustainable energy: training methodology, integrating face-to-face training activities with ICT — based ones. This course is aimed to test parts of the training tool in the partnership, with high school — teachers groups.

Also the testing of the training tool parts in the real class environment was envisaged. A specific part of the project is dedicated to evaluating, internally and externally, the project’s activities and outcomes. The teachers’ in-service training course concept is schematically presented in Figure 1. The activities during project life time are distinguished here: the evaluation of the training needs, the in-service training course curriculum design and testing (in-service training course). As a result of the in-service modules, teacher-students have to propose the implementation of the renewable energy systems subjects implementation in the real classroom environment.

• A core of trainers by selecting the human resources for the project, to improve and update the existing infrastructure in the partner institutions for the optimum development of the project and to disseminate the project outcomes through the partners and attendees of the course.

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Figure 1. The concept of course design in the SEE EU Tool project