Abstract:

A significant mobility of teaching staff as well a large exchange of educational experience, took place during the last twenty years in Europe. The explosive development of new technologies helped the communication of professors and the development of common research in many fields of educational aspects and activities, mostly in new inter-scientific areas with focus to environmental protection.
Under the consideration that in European engineering education there is a lack of coherent under-graduate education and training in the field of sustainable development, the authors present in this paper an Erasmus project which developed to support the Engineering Universities’ curricula with the introduction of an Eco-Design module at the basic level.
This Eco-Design module has been implemented during the last year, totally or partially, in all the seven institutions of higher education, members of the partnership.
The first results of the implementation are presented for further discussion.

Keywords:

eco-design, reuse, recycling, life-cycle, sustainable development, engineering education.