New international research mobilities for MUREM students thanks to a Unite! Seed Fund project

DEM professors have received a Unite! Seed Fund grant so that MUREM (Research Master in Mechanical Engineering) students can carry out their Final Thesis and research assignments in collaboration with 3 Unite! universities, namely: Aalto (Finland), Lisbon (Portugal) and Darmstadt (Germany).

The project that provides the framework to do this is called CLERT-I4.0, which stands for "Collaborative Learning Environments for Research-based Teaching on Industry 4.0" and was approved and funded in the call "Unite! Seed Fund for Teaching and Learning at Unite! Focus Areas" that had opened last summer.

In this project, it is planned that 5 of our students will be able to do short mobilities (maximum 2 months, physical and/or virtual) in the laboratories of the other participating universities. There will also be virtual collaborative learning tools through the MetaCampus of the Unite alliance! University.

In the pilot phase, which will extend from the spring to the autumn of 2025, it is planned that twenty students will participate, of which 5 will spend their time at the UPC. The objectives include strengthening research and teaching collaborations with Unite! partner universities, improving the learning experience of participating students, providing access to research infrastructures and laboratories of the alliance, giving an international dimension to MUREM and encouraging research vocations in areas of Mechanical Engineering.

The vision is that these activities can be maintained and new universities from the alliance can be added in subsequent years.

The participating team includes professors Massimo Cenciarini, Tania de los Santos, Jordi Romeu (coordinator of MUREM) and Joaquim Minguella (coordinator of the CLERT-I4.0 project), although the action is open to all research groups participating in MUREM and in general to the entire field of Mechanical Engineering.