IDEAS Project Research Articles

Exploring the Application of a Co-Creation Model in Archaeological Tourism: Two Case Studies developed under TURARQ's project within the frame of Link Me Up - 1000 ideas project

This paper discusses two projects that revolve around the conceptualization of tourism products within the framework of interpreting and understanding archaeological sites through a sustainable approach as part of TURARQ's initiative. The primary objective was to explore the application of a co-creation model, specifically the Project Based Learning methodology of "Demola" with the support of the "Link me Up" project, in the field of archaeological tourism. The first project, Show Me the Past, involved the development of a mobile app that utilized an agile requirement analysis to create a prototype. The second project, Showcasing Prehistory, focused on entrepreneurship, inclusion, heritage, and sustainability, using a diagnosis of the social issues affecting the Mação territory. The outcomes of the first project included the creation of a Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) application, which allows users to visualize virtual objects in the real environment of discovery. In the second project, empathy maps were developed, encompassing archaeotourism, the local community, theme parks, and special needs. The findings indicated that these programs generated high levels of participant satisfaction and positively impacted competency development. However, further studies are required to ascertain the number of participants who have transitioned into entrepreneurs because of their involvement in these projects.

Improving Children's Rehabilitation Service Quality and Experience Through Innovative Programming: A Developmental Evaluation of the Bright Ideas Program.

Evidence-informed practice (EIP) is a widely accepted approach to providing rehabilitation services, however there are barriers to implementation. Bright Ideas is an innovative program developed by KidsAbility's Rocket Discovery Centre, aiming enhance uptake of EIP through incubating ideas identified by KidsAbility staff linked to organizational priorities of enhancing service access and outcomes. To evaluate Bright Ideas by identifying perceived successes and challenges associated with the program with the aim of supporting clinical innovation and the adoption of evidence-informed practices in children's rehabilitation centres. A developmental evaluation approach was utilized to complete a real-time evaluation of Bright Ideas. Bright Ideas program materials were reviewed to describe the program. A focus group and interview were conducted with staff who led Bright Ideas projects (n = 7) to gain insight into their experiences. Additionally, interviews were conducted with the program coordinators (n = 2) to understand the evolution of the program. Data was analysed using qualitative content analysis. Successes that drive the Bright Ideas program and roadblocks it has encountered were identified across three dimensions: the personal level (involving Bright Ideas project leads), the programmatic level (focusing on the Bright Ideas program), and the organizational level (pertaining to KidsAbility as a whole). Key roadblocks included a lack of knowledge about the program organizationally, restricted time resources, competing organizational priorities, and an absence of infrastructure to scale ideas from Bright Ideas into the organization. Bright Ideas is an innovative program aiming to make impactful change by enabling staff to lead implementation-driven projects. Our findings highlight many successes of the program and use the Theoretical Domains Framework and Behaviour Change Wheel to make recommendations to support its sustained implementation at KidsAbility.

Engaging in online peer-led group reflective practice through the share your research ideas project: students’ and tutors’ reflective accounts

ABSTRACT This paper presents the retrospective reflective accounts of three master’s alumni and their tutor who openly shared their thoughts on their experience of engaging in online peer-led group reflective practice through the ‘Share Your Research Ideas’ (SYRI) project. This project ran at the University of Manchester during the second half of the academic year 2019–2020, a time of the COVID-19 pandemic. It consisted of a series of online seminar sessions, which offered a space for students to reflect individually and in groups upon their experience of undertaking educational research. The contribution of this reflective piece is threefold, it aims to: 1) illustrate how the ‘Peer-Led Group Reflective Practice’ (PLGRP) pedagogical approach can be monitored and facilitated in an online learning environment, 2) identify the influence of such a pedagogical approach on those students who engaged in the project and, 3) show how reflective conversations between tutor and students over time as well as the learnings obtained from them can inform course design and shape subsequent learning experience. Thus, our goals are to document how the reflective conversations undertaken during and after the SYRI project contributed to significant student experience and life-long learning and to draw implications for future practice.

Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies

Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies

A Management Strategy for Multi-Source Heat Pump Systems

The recent H2020 IDEAS project is oriented to the study of multi-source heat pump systems by investigating their behavior through dynamic simulations and on-field experiments in real small and large-scale prototypes respectively. One of the main aims of the project is the exploitation of available free energy sources, solar, air and ground using the heat pump technology. The key point in the investigated multi-source heat pump system is the optimal management of the renewable sources and the keeping of the ground storage available also in case of undersize of it and in case of buildings with unbalanced thermal load profile. In the last year of the project the algorithm for the control of sources and devices in the IDEAS system has been developed to maximize the use of renewable energies and at the same time to minimize the consumption of auxiliary energy. The present paper shows the details of this part of the project highlighting limits, potential and properties of the management system with a discussion of the results obtained from the on-field experiments. In the last part of the project, the implementation of weather forecast and artificial intelligence in the algorithm is planned.

Building for the future

Building for the future The IDEAS project is an innovative building-integrated RES utilising solar energy, thermal storage and heat pump technologies to generate electricity, heating and cooling. This hybrid energy efficiency application will benefit multi-purpose public and commercial buildings across a range of urban and rural climatic conditions. This will enable families, communities, and businesses to contribute to creating a low-carbon, sustainable future.

A Heat Pump-Based Multi-source Renewable Energy System for the Building Air Conditioning: The IDEAS Project Experience

The current paper presents the state-of-the-art of the ongoing IDEAS research project, funded under the Horizon 2020 EU framework programme. The project involves fourteen partners from six European countries and proposes a multi-source cost-effective renewable energy system for the decarbonisation of the building envelope. The system features a radiant floor fed by a heat pump for the building thermal management. The heat pump can exploit sun, air, and/or ground as thermal sources through the use of photovoltaic/thermal solar panels, air heat exchangers, and shallow ground flat-panel heat exchangers. Thermal energy storage is achieved by means of phase change materials spread along several system components, such as: radiant floor to increase its thermal inertia, solar panels for cooling purposes, ground to enhance soil thermal capacity. Within the project framework, a small-scale building, featuring a plethora of sensors for test purposes, and two large-scale buildings are meant to be equipped with the renewable energy system proposed. The small-scale building is currently in operation, and the first results are discussed in the present work. Preliminary data suggest that while multi-source systems coupled with heat pumps are particularly effective, it is complex to obtain suitable thermal energy storages on urban scale.

Playing with Fandom

Th is article addresses fandom from the perspective of LEGO Fans. Building on datafrom a large study of the LEGO Ideas platform, we investigate fandom as materialnarratives of play, nostalgia, and intertextuality. LEGO Ideas is a platform thatallows users to submit ideas for future LEGO products, and based on the supportof other users in the form of votes and comments on issues such as suggested priceand target market, LEGO decides whether or not to produce a suggested product.As such, LEGO Ideas is an online community for fans of LEGO, but a surprisingnumber of projects employ other fan narratives such as Star Wars, Marvel, GilmoreGirls, Beatles, and Doctor Who to name a few. When analysing the number ofprojects submitted to the platform, as many as 69% build on popular texts, brandsand celebrities. Further, two thirds of the approved projects build on popular textsand celebrities with established fan cultures.In this article we argue that fandom becomes a way to create bridges betweena variety of users and corporate interests. Although all the active participants onLEGO Ideas self-identify as AFOLS (adult fans of LEGO), they do not necessarilyagree about what constitutes an interesting LEGO Ideas project. One way to reachout and draw attention to a project, however, seems to be by employing fandomin general as leverage; that is, materialising fans’ narratives in LEGO is a drivingforce – not just for social interaction among the users – but also in getting their ideas considered for production by LEGO. Th us, when AFOLs bridge the apparentgap between toys and (often) adult fan cultures, they facilitate multiple ways ofengaging with both, in ways that underline the play and intertextuality of popularculture.

A proposal for a new PhD level curriculum on quantitative methods for drug development.

This paper provides an overview of “Improving Design, Evaluation and Analysis of early drug development Studies” (IDEAS), a European Commission–funded network bringing together leading academic institutions and small‐ to large‐sized pharmaceutical companies to train a cohort of graduate‐level medical statisticians. The network is composed of a diverse mix of public and private sector partners spread across Europe, which will host 14 early‐stage researchers for 36 months. IDEAS training activities are composed of a well‐rounded mixture of specialist methodological components and generic transferable skills. Particular attention is paid to fostering collaborations between researchers and supervisors, which span academia and the private sector. Within this paper, we review existing medical statistics programmes (MSc and PhD) and highlight the training they provide on skills relevant to drug development. Motivated by this review and our experiences with the IDEAS project, we propose a concept for a joint, harmonised European PhD programme to train statisticians in quantitative methods for drug development.

Visualizing Science.

iThe Vandal Ideas Project, a competitive grant program launched in 2015 at the University of Idaho to encourage collaborative work, held an exhibition, "Visualizing Science," at the University's Prichard Art Gallery from February to April 2017. Seven different collaborative teams of artists and scientists, all faculty members, produced the works in the show. The collaborative projects did not deal with data visualization in the scientific sense, but more with how artists and designers can translate scientific methods of inquiry into something visually engaging for a gallery audience in order to produce an emotional response./i.

Housing from 8 to 80: An AD Ideas Project

AbstractFor this issue, Guest‐Editor Lorraine Farrelly and AD launched a student design competition around the concept of the ‘lifetime home’, which was open to undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, interior design and related subjects. Here Farrelly provides an overview of the competition and the ideas and designs from the award‐winning entries that came from students from across the globe.

Experience and the Ultimacy of God: In Memoriam John Edwin Smith

Experience and the Ultimacy of God: In Memoriam John Edwin Smith

Enhancing Materials Research Through Innovative 3D Environments and Interactive Manuals for Data Visualization and Analysis

ABSTRACTSpatial intelligence plays an important role in the success of nanoscience students specific to their visual ability to perceive structures in three dimensions. The NSF-funded IDEAS project makes use of a unique interactive 3D visualization system, based on immersive environment technology, for research and learning in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at UC Merced. In order to determine the effectiveness of the immersive system on nanoscience learning, a pilot project was conducted with undergraduate students, which showed the success of immersive systems in the science learning process. Overall, the immersive environment provided complete control in the construction and analysis of carbon-based nanostructure models. Results also showed the 3D visualization system benefited students with low spatial abilities. To facilitate a better understanding of the structure and properties of nanostructures, the IDEAS project has recently been expanded to allow accelerated simulations for materials research. It is important to integrate these new applications into undergraduate level courses in order to strengthen materials science education, recruit and retain future students, and to adapt modern technologies for future materials science educators. The expansion of the IDEAS project relies on the flexibility of this system to serve as a research tool as well as an innovative resource for science education. To adapt the 3D visualization and computing system and help engage students early in engineering research, our research group gathered practical technical documentation geared towards education of science users, based on both Cognitive Science and MSE Education (MSE-Ed) research. The work presented here involves developing educational resources through the design of audio-visual manuals for effective nanoscience learning. The manuals are being created using commercial software to produce interactive electronic books (ebooks). During the planning of the audio-visual manuals, we discovered that it is imperative to provide adequate educational tools as well as efficient guiding principles for the large number of visual, inductive, and active learners in general engineering education. This interdisciplinary project combines fundamental concepts from materials science and cognitive science, particularly project-based learning and active processing, while considering the concepts of overloading, and the unreliability of natural language, among other topics. This investigation will serve society by enhancing materials science research and education, as well as influencing engineering, chemistry, computer science and cognitive science fields, among others.

The IDEAS project: plug & produce at shop‐floor level

PurposeCurrent major roadmapping efforts have all clearly underlined that true industrial sustainability will require far higher levels of systems' autonomy and adaptability. In accordance with these recommendations, the Evolvable Assembly Systems (EAS) has aimed at developing such technological solutions and support mechanisms. Since its inception in 2002 as a next generation of production systems, the concept is being further developed and tested to emerge as a production system paradigm. The essence of evolvability resides not only in the ability of system components to adapt to the changing conditions of operation, but also to assist in the evolution of these components in time. Characteristically, Evolvable systems have distributed control, and are composed of intelligent modules with embedded control. To assist the development and life cycle, a methodological framework is being developed. After validating the process‐oriented approach (EC FP6 EUPASS project), EAS now tackles its current major challenge (FP7 IDEAS project) in proving that factory responsiveness can be improved using lighter multi‐agent technology running on EAS modules (modules with embedded control). The purpose of this paper is to detail the particular developments within the IDEAS project, which include the first self re‐configuring system demonstration and a new mechatronic architecture.Design/methodology/approachThe paper covers the development of a plug & produce system for FESTO AG. The work covers the background methodology and details its constituents: control system, architecture, design methodology, and modularity. Specific detail is reserved for the configuration approach which integrates several tools, and the commercially available control boards. The latter have been specifically developed for distributed control applications.FindingsThe paper details probably the first self‐configuring assembly system at shop‐floor level. This is one of the very first industrial plug & produce systems, in which equipment may be added/removed with no programming effort at all.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper reports the findings and development carried out within the framework of a single project. It also clarifies that the solution is not a general panacea for all the issues within assembly.Practical implicationsThe implications are quite large as the work proves the validity of an approach that could change our way of designing and building assembly systems. In the words of an industrial partner, this is “a new way of engineering assembly systems”.Social implicationsShould this approach be used in industry then the implications could be huge. It would, for example, mean that new services are created, whereby assembly system modules are leased to users through a network of depots, rather than bought at a high cost. The system modules also have a far longer lifespan, implying very good ecological solutions.Originality/valueThe highly original paper describes what is probably one of the very first projects to show that distributed control at shop‐floor level is viable and technologically feasible.

Instructional Strategy for Introducing Argument into Science Education: Focusing on IDEAS Project

Instructional Strategy for Introducing Argument into Science Education: Focusing on IDEAS Project

AIDE: internal dosimetry software

AIDE (Activity and Internal Dose Estimates) is a software for calculating activities in compartments and committed doses due to occupational exposures, and for performing intake and dose estimates using bioassay data. It has been continuously developed and tested for more than 20 years. Its calculation core has been applied in several situations, like performing all dose estimates due to (137)Cs intakes, which occurred during the Goiania accident in 1987; performing quality assurance of the ICRP Task Group on Dose Calculations regarding calculations of activities in compartments and generation of dose coefficients for adults due to intakes by inhalation, ingestion and injection of several radionuclides; and producing the tables of activities in compartments and dose coefficients using the NCRP Wound Model for the NCRP report. It provides several capabilities like performing calculations using modified Human Respiratory Tract Model parameters for the mechanical transport, blood absorption and partitions of deposit in the AI region. The existing systemic models can also be modified or new ones can be entered. All estimate procedures are in accordance with the methods presented in the ICRP-78 Publication, in the IAEA Safety Reports Series no. 37 and in the IDEAS Project Guidelines 2006.

The Re-historicisation and Increased Contextualisation of Curriculum and Its Associated Pedagogies

Curriculum has traditionally been an historical and technical field. The consequence has been to view curriculum and its associated pedagogical practices as neutral entities, devoid of meaning - in essence arising ex nihilo. However, this naive assumption has fatefully resulted in revisiting the same swamps over and over again. Standardised curriculum and pedagogy function invisibly to reproduce class and inequality and to institutionalise cultural norms. Despite lingering attempts to maintain this technocratic approach that ignores subcutaneous meanings, a strong movement has emerged to reconceptualise curriculum in terms of its historical and sociopolitical context. While it is conceded that this is a step into a larger quagmire, it is a necessary one if true progress is to be made. Nevertheless, this large quagmire provides the possibility of escape, unlike the fatal determinism of forever returning to the swamps. Expectedly, this move to reconceptualise curriculum has its critics. Their arguments are also addressed, in particular the perceived tendency to separate theory and practice. Although curriculum and curriculum practices can be contextualised in many ways, this paper focuses primarily on key political concepts and concealed constructs such as hegemony, reproduction and resistance, resilience of the institution, the non-neutral nature of knowledge, the inclusion/exclusion principle, slogan systems and the hidden curriculum. Only by understanding the complex historical and political nature of curriculum can teaching professionals understand the hidden meaning of their practices. This is the first step for professionals to take in order to achieve Giroux's (1979, 1985, 1992) vision of teachers as transformative professionals (particularly through collaborative frameworks like the IDEAS project) in a climate of standardised curriculum and testing.

A structured approach for the assessment of internal dose: the IDEAS guidelines

The need for harmonisation of the procedures for internal dose assessment has been recognised within an EU research project under the 5th Framework Programme. The aim of the IDEAS project was to develop general guidelines for standardising assessments of intakes and internal doses. It started in October 2001 and ended in June 2005. The project is closely related to some goals of the work of Committee 2 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection and since 2003 there has been close co-operation between the two groups. The general philosophy of the guidelines is focusing on the principles of harmonisation, accuracy and proportionality. The proposed system of 'level of task' to structure the approach of internal dose evaluation is also reported. Some details of the internal structure of the guidelines for the different pathways of intake are provided.

Application of IDEAS guidelines: the IDEAS/IAEA intercomparison exercise on internal dose assessment

As part of the EU Fifth Framework Programme IDEAS project 'General Guidelines for the Evaluation of Incorporation Monitoring Data', and in collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency, a new intercomparison exercise for the assessment of doses from intakes of radionuclides was organised. Several cases were selected, to cover a wide range of practices in the nuclear fuel cycle and medical applications. The cases were: (1) acute intake of HTO, (2) acute inhalation of the fission products 137Cs and 90Sr, (3) acute inhalation of 60Co, (4) repeated intakes of 131I, (5) intake of enriched uranium and (6) single intake of Pu isotopes and 241Am. This intercomparison exercise especially focused on the effect of the Guidelines proposed by the IDEAS project for harmonisation of internal dosimetry.

General guidelines for the assessment of internal dose from monitoring data: progress of the IDEAS project

In recent major international intercomparison exercises on intake and internal dose assessments from monitoring data, the results calculated by different participants varied significantly. Based on this experience the need for harmonisation of the procedures has been formulated within an EU 5th Framework Programme research project. The aim of the project, IDEAS, is to develop general guidelines for standardising assessments of intakes and internal doses. The IDEAS project started in October 2001 and ended in June 2005. The project is closely related to some goals of the work of Committee 2 of the ICRP and since 2003 there has been close cooperation between the two groups. To ensure that the guidelines are applicable to a wide range of practical situations, the first step was to compile a database of well-documented cases of internal contamination. In parallel, an improved version of an existing software package was developed and distributed to the partners for further use. A large number of cases from the database was evaluated independently by the partners and the results reviewed. Based on these evaluations, guidelines were drafted and discussed with dosimetry professionals from around the world by means of a virtual workshop on the Internet early in 2004. The guidelines have been revised and refined on the basis of the experiences and discussions in this virtual workshop. The general philosophy of the Guidelines is presented here, focusing on the principles of harmonisation, optimisation and proportionality. Finally, the proposed Levels of Task to structure the approach of internal dose evaluation are reported.