Sampler Education Pilot Project
Status meeting 4
DHI Stockholm, 11th november 2008
General
• Agenda – comments?
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General
9-9:20
Status work packages 9:20 – 11:00
Estimated
time
9:20 – 9:30:
Work package number and title
Coordinator
AOB
9:30 – 9:40
WP 1: Translation course materials, exams forms and evaluation key,
methods and templates
WP 2: Course materials on waste sampling
9:40 – 9:50
WP 3: Course materials on groundwater sampling
IS
9:50 – 10:00
WP 4: Course materials on soil sampling
JN
10:00-10.10
WP 5: Course materials on wastewater and sludge sampling
RS
10.10-10.20
WP 6: Course materials on basic sampling
JBH
10.20-10.30
WP 7: Implementation and testing of course materials
JL
10.30-10.40
WP 8: Evaluation of course materials and tests
AM
10.40.10.50
WP 9: Coordination, quality management and reporting
JBH
10.50-11.00
WP 10: Valorisation
JBH
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Implementation of textbooks and exams 11:00 – 12:15
Lunch break
Evaluation of training courses 13:15 – 14:15
Exam questions and textbooks 14:15 – 14:45
Break
Valorisation 15:00 – 16:00
Any other business 16:00 – 17:00
MW
•Minutes from meeting 3
• comments?
•Economy and administration
•Invoice for language check and graphics to be forwarded to textbook authors
•Second payment has been transferred
•Request for final payment will be submitted with the final report
WP 1 – Templates
Deliverables
Status
D1.1
Text book template
Ready
D1.2
Exam questions template
Ready
D1.3
Template for CD structure
Ready
D1.4
Revised template system
Comments and changes to guidance
documents, textbook template, exam
questions template and CD structure to be
implemented, planned ready by 1/1-2009
WP 6 – Course materials on basic sampling
Deliverables
Status
D 6.1
Input to templates and vocabulary
Ready
D 6.2
Outline of textbooks
Ready
D 6.3
Draft textbook and illustration collection
Ready (april 08)
Revised vesion 01
Ready (sept. 08)
Collection of multiple choice (150) and practical
questions (6)
Draft oct. 08
Revised version 01
Planned to be ready
1/1-2009
D 6.4
D 6.5
Evaluation from reference group
D 6.6
Final textbook
Planned to be ready
for print 1/2-2009
D 6.7
Final textbook (CD and print), illustration
collection (CD) and exams questions collection
(CD)
Planned to be ready
1/3-2009
WP 9–Coordination, quality management and reporting
Deliverables
Status
D9.1
Detailed quality management plan
Ready
D9.2
Interim report with activity and financial reports
Ready
D9.3
Final report with activity and financial reports
Planned to be ready
20/3-2009
WP 10 - Valorisation
Deliverables
Status
D10.1 Description of education need and required
curriculum
D10.2 Project web for external information established
done preproject
D10.3 Intra web for project partners established
Ready
D10.4 National paper presenting the project in each
country (5)
Not ready - Must be
ready in marts 09
D10.5 Oral presentation at target group meeting or
conference of the project in each country (5)
Done in 4 of the 5
country
D10.6 Business plan for exploitation
Not ready – planned
for jan 09
D10.7 Intellectual property rights agreement
Not ready – planned
for jan 09
D10.8 Paper presenting the project in international,
scientific paper (1)
D10.9 Oral presentation of the education system at
European, scientific conference (1)
Not ready – no plans
D10.1 CD with the full education system (exams
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questions separate and pass word protected)
including project reports
Not ready – planned
for March 09
Ready
Poster presented at
ConSoil 08
WP 10 - Valorisation - DHI
DHI
Status/plan
Project and intra web
Ready
Business plan
Initiated
Intellectual properties rights agreement
Initiated
Publisher negotiations
Initiated
Scientific paper (1)
-International
-National
Planned to be published in
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”Vand og jord” – January 2009
Oral scientific presentation (1)
•Århus March 2007
•Holbæk Oct 2007
•ConSoil 2008 (poster)
Production of project CDs
Planned for March 2009
Interactions with the European and
national authorities
•EU groundwater directive
•Danish implementation of
Annex 2
Participation in thematic monitoring
activities as arranged
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www.sampler-education.dhi.dk
WP 10 - Valorisation - partners
Vitus
Bering
Contribute to business plan, intellectual properties agreement,
national papers (2), national oral presentations (2), input to project
web, interactions with national authorities, post project courses
SGI
Contribute to business plan, intellectual properties agreement,
national papers (2), national oral presentations (2), input to project
web, interactions with national authorities, post project courses
AEL
Contribute to business plan, intellectual properties agreement,
national papers (2), national oral presentations (2), input to project
web, interactions with national authorities, post project courses
PSI
Contribute to business plan, intellectual properties agreement,
national papers (2), national oral presentations (2), input to project
web, interactions with national authorities
Aquateam Contribute to business plan, intellectual properties agreement,
national papers (2), national oral presentations (2), input to project
web, interactions with national authorities, post project courses
VTT
Contribute to business plan, intellectual properties agreement, input
to project web, interactions with national authorities
Exam questions - 1
Requirements of the Nordtest Sampler Certification scheme
•Requirements for examination topics based on course requirements
•70% of total mark to pass
•Multiple-choice (MC) questions weighted 50% of total mark, calculation problems/cases
weighted 50 % of total mark
•3.5 hour exam
General sampling course (Sampling – Basic)
•MC questions (minimum 30)
•Calculation problems (3)
Specialist sampling course (Sampling of soil, waste etc.)
•MC questions (minimum 30)
•Cases (3)
Sampler Education Pilot project
•Total mark of exams 60 points (100%) and min. 42 points (70%) to pass
•General sampling course
•1.5 hours for 30 MC questions; 1 point each
•2 hours for 3 calculation problems; 10 points per calculation problem
•Specialist sampling course
•1.5 hours for 30 MC questions; 1 point each
•2 hours for 3 cases; 10 points per calculation problem
Exam questions - 2
Sampler Education Pilot project
•Templates for
Question database (3)
Evaluation key (2)
Exams (2)
•Formats follow the textbook guideline
•Document control for
Question database
Evaluation keys
Exams
•Exam question database – a CD-ROM
Structure developed to document and store examination material
Templates
Questions (stored in question databases using the appropriate template)
Exams and corresponding evaluation keys
Exam questions - 3
Sampler Education Pilot project
• Recommendations to NICe
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Examination time too long (comment from PSI)
Open book exam?
Handling of exam questions database and development of additional
questions (comment from PSI)  under valorisation
Rules for admittance to exam and exam supervision (comment PSI)
• Recommendation to exam questions templates
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Comments regarding templates?
Workflow – store questions in a database document, copy from database to
prepare an exam...etc.
Comments regarding the guideline document
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Textbooks - 1
Sampler Education Pilot project
• Status:
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Language check is finished for volume 1 and 5
The remaining volumes will follow
• Books - things to be done:
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Changes suggested by David Barry have to be implemented
Insert figures from Martin (including revisions suggested by David)
Glossary – terms not used should be deleted
Design of textbook cover ??
• Templates - things to be done:
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Textbook template will be updated with the relevant formatting changes
and textbook guideline document will be updated accordingly (Anke)
• Recommendation to textbooks, templates and guideline
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Experience from course implementation (Jussi)
Suggestions from course evaluation (Andris)
Other things ?? (All)
• Recommendations to NICe ??? (All)
WP 10: Valorisation – Business plan
Business plan for exploitation
Content
• Validity
• Partner
• Intellectual property rights
• Publication
• Dissemination
WP 10: Valorisation – Publication of textbooks
Possibilities:
1. Selling the books on our own
• Each of us is responsible to print and sell our book
• Coordinated sale of all books (e.g. From web sites – one
administrator)
(who coordinates the sale – who pays printing of the books)
2. Find a publisher to help us
• Selling the rights to a publisher (authors will get royalty –
typically 10 – 15%). The publisher will take over all rights
and expenses)
• We keep the rights -The publisher will setup, print and
market the book – We pay the expenses for printing etc. –
and gets a high percentage of the sales
Prices – thumb rule: 1,5 DKK pr page (for students)
Printing prices
Via DHI:
Price for 5x10 books – ca. 13 € per book
Price for 5x50 books – ca. 7 € per book
Price for 5x100 books – ca. 6 € per book
Format: 21 cm x 16 cm, ca. 100 pages, 4 colors
Scanmedia (Thailand)
Price for 50-100 copies – ca. 1342 €
Format: 15.8 x 21 cm, ca. 100 pages, cover print in full colors, inside print in 1 color
Price for 50-100 copies – ca. 2700 €
Format: 15.8 x 21 cm, ca. 100 pages, cover print and inside prints in full color
Toptrykgrafisk (Denmark)
Price for 50 copies – ca. 870 €
Format: 29.7 x 43.3 cm, ca. 132 pages, color?
WP 10: Valorisation – Intellectual property rights
From the proposal:
Freely available form project web:
• Templates and methods for easily translational training system
• The principles developed to ensure full competence acquirement
and exams compatibility
English textbooks
• Protected by copyright (90% author / 10% DHI)
Translation of textbooks
• Project partner – freely translate the English books
• Copyrights to translated textbooks belong to the translating
partner
• Outside the project group – license agreement with the copyright
owner
WP 10: Valorisation – Intellectual property rights
Exams questions and evaluation key
• ”..will be made available on a separate, pass word proctected CD
only to representatives of course units and educational
institutions documenting that they are in charge of a training
course for samplers”
• Exam questions guidance document + Andris comments
• Who is in charge of the questions and evaluation keys?
• What do we do ????
Content of IPR agreement
Purpose
Content
Duration
Property right
– English version of textbook
– Translated version of textbook
• Publication
• Administration
• Signature
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Completing and closing the project
Final
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report:
Project period: until 31st march 2009
Period of eligibility of costs ends 31st of march 2009
Deadline for final report: 31st may 2009
Input from partners: (very similar to interim report)
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Completed quality control report (template distributed)
Dissemination report from each partner
Subcontracting agreements and invoices
Financial tables (as done in interim report)
Time schedule
What
Deadline Who
Finalise textbooks
15/1-2009
All
Finalise guidance document and templates
15/1-2009
DHI
Finalise exams questions and evaluation keys
15/1-2009
All
Finalise guidance document and templates
15/1-2009
DHI
Finalise quality management plan and submit to
DHI
15/1-2009
All
Finalise implementation report including
recommendations
15/1-2009
AEL
Finalise overall evaluation of textbooks, exams
question and implementation
15/1-2009
PSI
Produce CD with exams questions and evaluation
keys
31/3-2009
DHI
Produce CD with products – books, figures etc.
31/3-2009
DHI
Print of textbooks
31/3-2009
To be decided
Time schedule
What
Deadline
Who
Business plan
31/1-2009
All, initiated by DHI
1/3-2009
All
- IPR-agreement
- Plan for publication
Dissemination
- Report on dissemination – against
deliverables
Final report to Cirius
- input from partners
31/3-2009
5/3-2009
All