Working Group 5 – Education and Dissemination

Working Group Leader

Barkan Ugurlu

Working Group Leader

Andre Seyfarth

Focus and Aim of WG5: Education and Dissemination

The relevance and presence of wearable robotics is increasingly hard to ignore – and, with more advances, we will also need more qualified professionals to work on the development, maintenance, and promote the integration of wearable robots into everyday life.

The goal of this workgroup is to support the Education and Dissemination of wearable robotics. We will do this by focusing on two aspects:

1) the formation of the future professional in the field, and

2) the education of the general public in wearable robotics.

To most effectively achieve our goals, we aim to include discussions with key stakeholders (educators and employers), as well as actively engage in outreach activities.

In the introductory plenary session, we presented the aim, scope and organization of the working group to the large group of specialists participating in the meeting.

In the discussion plenary session, we performed a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis about the current education of professionals in wearable robotics; the results will be made available at the next meeting. This period of reflection was followed by a discussion about individual experiences in education in this field, especially regarding challenges related to interdisciplinarity.

In this brainstorming meeting, we presented proposals for the scope of our working group’s activities, highlighting the focus on the formation of future professionals in wearable robotics, and dissemination of the field to the general public.

We received feedback on already existing initiatives for profiling professionals in rehabilitation robotics.

Members

Adam Poulsen, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Amalric Ortlieb, EPFL, Switzerland
Amartya Ganguly, Marsi Bionics, Spain
Andre Seyfarth, “Institut of Sport Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt”, Germany
Annalies Baumeister, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Cristina, AYESA AIR CONTROL, Spain
Evagoras Xydas, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
George Adamides, Agricultural Research Institute, Cyprus
Ileana Ciobanu, “Elias University Hospital, Bucharest”, Romania
Indrek Must, “IMS Lab, Institute of Technology University of Tartu”, Estonia
Isabel Barbancho, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Lana Popović-Maneski, Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia
Loris Roveda, ITIA-CNR, Italy
Luisa Maria Garcia Jorge, IPB and INESCC, Portugal
Marina Mijanovic Markus, “University of Montenegro, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering”, Montenegro
Matúš Pleva, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Nearchos Paspallis, UCLan Cyprus, Cyprus
Nevena Ackovska, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Macedonia
Nuno Miguel Fonseca Ferreira, Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Portugal
Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petros Stefaneas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Ramon Sancibrian, “Department of Structural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cantabria”, Spain
Romain Valette, , France
Samer Mohammed, University Paris-Est Créteil – UPEC, France
Shiqian Wang, Reboocon Bionics B.V., Netherlands
Sofia Almpani, NTUA, Greece
Stefano Toxiri, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Suzanne-Marie Psaila, University of Malta, Malta
Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Vesna Kirandziska, Faculty of computer science and engineering, Macedonia
Zoran Pandilov, “Ss.Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Republic of Macedonia”, Republic of Macedonia