Specific programme: Erasmus+ KA2 “Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness”

UPV/EHU status: Beneficiario

UPV/EHU PI: Maria Beatriz Plaza Inchausti

Project start: 15/06/2021

Project end: 30/11/2023

Brief description: 

Cultural Heritage (CH) is in the focus of the European Union as motor for employment, economic drive and development. In order to guarantee longevity & usability of European

Heritage it is inevitable to keep up with the requirements of society like new technology and digitisation.

The Covid19 crisis added some urgency to the issue as training organisations strongly suffer from restrictions and new rules, which are threatening traditional education and training activities. Especially in regards to hands-on-training, where instructors need to get really close to learners in order to teach practical skills.

The consortium of VI-TRAIN takes on the challenge of developing innovative training for traditional/threatened crafts and handling of building damages, which will boost the digitization of training in (built) Cultural Heritage. A big focus is given to crafts that are almost nowhere trained any more. Lots of those crafts do need a lot of experience and guidance by experienced craftspeople. This training in particular will be boosted by various digitisation support.

The anticipated objectives of VI-TRAIN are:

• to identify appropriate means of distance learning for the training of craftspeople (manual work),
• to identify appropriate means of online cooperation in training, regarding functionality, GDPR and data security
• to derive success criteria for highly accepted digital solutions
• to develop and test a virtual/3D-crafts training system by using sensors and VR/AR
• to develop and test a virtual/3D-buidling damage identification training system
• to investigate and test options overcoming restrictions, e.g. move sickness,
• to develop a train-the-trainer system for application of selected tools in training of traditional crafts

Participants of the courses developed in VI-TRAIN can obtain a European certificate by undergoing a certification process provided by ECQA, which is an internationally active organisation specialised in certification of skills and competences. VI-TRAIN nicely enriches the offer of The European Heritage Academy (EHA), which will be in charge of delivering VI-TRAIN training courses after completion of the project. EHA is situated at Charterhouse Mauerbach, the future EU Competence and Community Centre for Architectural Conservation, being set up during INCREAS, a Pilot project for Cultural and Creative Industries, Finance, Learning, Innovation and Patenting for Cultural and Creative Industries (FLIP for CCIs-2).

Erasmus+ 2014-2020; Project number 2020-1-AT01-KA226-VET-092635 (2021-2023)

Web: www.vi-train.eu

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/showcase/vi-train

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