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VAM Realities project successfully completed

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The end of the year marks the completion of the VAM Realities. The project kick-off back in January 2020 in an aim to provide higher education institutions with skills to guide SMEs into the adoption of VR and AR technologies and the integration of these technologies into their business operations.

In its 16 months of implementation the project has developed a suite of resources for higher education institutions, which include:

  • the VAM Realities State of the Art XR Technology Report: State of the Art Report that provides an overview of the most important and efficient VR/AR/MR technologies currently available to companies and what kind of hardware and software is successfully used in the various industries.
  • the VAM Realities European Survey Report: The report highlights the findings from a Pan-European Survey with 300 SMEs aiming to map the knowledge and needs of companies in regard to XR technology and how they are already benefiting from these technologies.
  • the VAM Realities platform: an online platform offering unique networking opportunities within the field of XR technologies. The platform hosts the VAM Realities Network, an online repository of more than 350 registered XR experts and XR enthusiasts from Europe and the whole world. The platform also hosts the EU XR projects showcase, where you can get access to more than 40 EU-funded XR-related projects from all around Europe.
  • the SME Online Skills Gap Detector: an online self-assessment tool that allows companies/SMEs to find out how well prepared they are – or not – for the increasing importance of VR/AR/MR in their industries.
  • the VAM Realities University Business Cooperation Handbook: a practical handbook which addresses how Higher Education Institutes can support manufacturing SMEs to adopt and integrate XR technologies successfully into their business operations.

You can find more information about the VAM Realities project at the project’s website: https://vam-realities.eu/

The VETENTRE Project reaches its fruition

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After a fantastic two-year journey that engaged more than two hundred European practitioners in VET education, the consortium of the VETENTRE project is proud to launch not only policy recommendations and a toolkit with strategies for VET educators and VET education providers but also an innovative fully self-learning platform.

The VETENTRE project will be officially completed by the end of this month. The project kicked-off in December 2020 aiming to support VET educators to design programmes and activities that promote the entrepreneurial mindset of trainees. To this end, VETENTRE developed a set of resources for VET educators and trainers, as well as adult educators, and other trainers to empower VET educators to develop their entrepreneurial mindset and to make VET education more attractive across Europe, focusing on the entrepreneurial skills of trainers and their capacity to design programmes and activities for learners.

The resources developed by the project include:

  • Entrepreneurship Toolkit for VET: VETENTRE has developed a Toolkit for VET educators that includes resources for integrating entrepreneurship in VET and supporting VET educators to develop entrepreneurship competencies. The Toolkit is aligned with the national frameworks for VET and Entrepreneurship and the EntreComp Framework that was developed by the European Commission.
  • E-learning space and VET entrepreneurship gamified environment: An E-learning platform and OERs that features a self-paced E-learning Course for VET educators, with online training modules that focus on developing the entrepreneurial competences of VET trainers. The E-learning space also hosts an e-Library with useful resources related to VET education needs and priorities.
  • VET and Entrepreneurship curricula: a comprehensive curriculum and training materials infusing entrepreneurship into VET, based on EntreComp and the resources of the VETENTRE Toolkit. The Curriculum includes four Modules supporting VET trainers to better design programmes and activities that promote the entrepreneurial mindset of trainees. Additionally, the training modules have been developed as a self-paced e-learning course, which is open for all VET trainers on the project’s e-learning platform.
  • Policy and practice recommendations derived from VET stakeholder consultations in each partner country.

Over the course of the project, the partners actively engaged VET trainers, VET providers, adult educators, education policymakers, academics, and specialists in all partner countries to identify and document the national and European needs and to ensure the relevance of the project’s results.

These tools and resources have been developed based on the findings of an extensive survey that took place in the beginning of the project in countries of the organisations participating in the consortium and in Europe in general.

The project has also produced a policy recommendation summarising lessons-learned, providing guidance for VET educators and VET education providers and decision-makers. This set of recommendations will be building a bridge between policymakers, organisations, and providers working in VET and add to the dialogue on European-wide policy and its initiatives related to VET, adult learning, and lifelong learning.

For more information on the VETENTRE project, you can visit the project’s website at vetentre.eu, or on the project’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/VETEntre/.

SLAAC project combating fake news about environment

Check out SLACC’s First Newsletter

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As the SLACC project is steadily picking up speed, the team is excited to share the latest highlights with you. For starters, the transnational research report on the existing approaches to climate education and fake news about climate issues is now officially completed! Read our newsletter to access the report and learn more details about the upcoming activities.

SLAAC project combating fake news about environment

SLACC Releases Its 4th Newsletter!

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Check out the latest updates from our SLACC project focused on tackling climate fake news! By making continuous steps towards strengthening young people climate ambassadors and debunking populist distortions about the climate crisis, the project has some exciting news in store.Read on to find out more. 

ECO-CENT second newsletter

Keep up with ECO-CENT in their Latest Newsletter

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Climate change is here, and we all need to take urgent actions to mitigate it and support the sustainability transition!

This is exactly why during the last few months we have been really busy with some important activities within the ECO-CENT project, which helps bridge the gaps between VET providers and businesses and facilitates both parties’ contribution to the green transition of Europe.

Find out more about the latest moves of the project in the newsletter below!

VAM Realities delegation examines XR industrial use cases in Milan, Ital

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The VAM Realities project consortium, together with SME representatives from all around Europe, found themselves in the city of Milan, Italy in October, visiting industrial fairs and SMEs developing and working with XR technology.

The delegation started with a visit to AnotheReality, an XR company that develops custom immersive solutions for simulation and training, business, and entertainment. The delegation moved to the premises of the hosts, STIIMA-CNR and held a hybrid round-table with the participation of XR SMEs, including Realmore, 3DQR, and Virtualware. The day concluded with a visit to the Smau Exhibition and a start-up safari at the fair, where participants had the opportunity to interact with local start-ups. Additionally, the VAM Realities delegation visited Moxoff SpA and learned about the XR and AI projects and services currently implemented by the company. Afterwards, the delegation visited the MADE – Competence Center Industry 4.0, a technology centre which supports enterprises in their digital transformation path towards Industry 4.0. The team also visited the BIMU Milan International biennial fair and most important Italian exhibition on metal cutting, metal forming and additive machine tools, robots, digital manufacturing and automation systems. The final day of the trip included a partner meeting for the consortium, as well as an additional visit to the BIMU Trade Fair.

The three-day site visit took place in the context of the VAM Realities SME Coaching Programme, which offers free personalised one-to-one coaching to manufacturing and other SMEs in order for them to integrate VR and AR technology into their processes. You can find more information about the VAM Realities Coaching Programme VAM Realities – VAM Realities XR Coaching Programme (vam-realities.eu).

VAM Realities delegation examines XR industrial use cases in Milan, Italy

Written by cardet-wpadmin on . Posted in Project News.

The VAM Realities project consortium, together with SME representatives from all around Europe, visited the city of Milan in Italy between October 11th and 14th and visited industrial fairs and SMEs developing and working with XR technology.

The delegation started on October 11th with a visit to AnotheReality, an XR company that develops custom immersive solutions for simulation and training, business, and entertainment. The delegation moved to the premises of the hosts, STIIMA-CNR and held a hybrid round-table with the participation of XR SMEs, including Realmore, 3DQR, and Virtualware. The day concluded with a visit to the Smau Exhibition and a start-up safari at the fair, where participants had the opportunity to interact with local start-ups.

On October 12th, the VAM Realities delegation visited Moxoff SpA and learned about the XR and AI projects and services currently implemented by the company. Afterwards, the delegation visited the MADE – Competence Center Industry 4.0, a technology centre which supports enterprises in their digital transformation path towards Industry 4.0. In the afternoon, we visited the BIMU Milan International biennial fair and most important Italian exhibition on metal cutting, metal forming and additive machine tools, robots, digital manufacturing and automation systems. The final day of the trip included a partner meeting for the consortium, as well as an additional visit to the BIMU Trade Fair.

The three-day site visit took place in the context of the VAM Realities SME Coaching Programme, which offers free personalised one-to-one coaching to manufacturing and other SMEs in order for them to integrate VR and AR technology into their processes. You can find more information about the VAM Realities Coaching Programme here.

DigiRUR: Stay rural and successful in the digital era

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DigiRUR project aims to encourage youth rural entrepreneurship by providing a complete package of all the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills needed to start a business in rural areas. The main objective with this project is to encourage youth rural entrepreneurship by providing a complete package of all the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills needed to start a business in rural areas.

The goal of the project will achieved by creating accessible ICT based environment for improvement of entrepreneurial knowledge through web-based platform, open educational resources, digital handbook and to equip VET providers servicing rural areas with versatile digital tools.