DrRachel Farrell

The partnership project IMMERSIVE-EU contributes to a need expressed by a group of youth organisations seeking to improve the quality of their work, particularly in relation to issues related to the transition of EU to young people. They also wish to share the training and the answers with other organisations working in the field of youth. It also seeks to contribute to a need analysis and solutions expressed by 270 young people done in November December 2023. Several documents of EU have already referred to these needs and in particular to the 37. Proposal: Citizen’s information, participation and youth to the Objective: Make the European Union more understandable and accessible and strengthen a common European identity. The project seeks answers to three questions: First: What should a European youth know and understand about EU to be a well informed and responsible citizen contributing to a sense of belonging in a diverse and inclusive EU? The project contributes from different groups: (1) migrant, refugees, (2) secondary school youths, (3) students in mobility VET-Erasmus and Ukrainian students in EU (4) university students -degrees unrelated to EU. The second question concerns teachers, students/ graduates from degrees related to EU and well informed and committed citizens- What should be transmitted of EU and how? The third question relates to how can the use of digital and immersive technologies help the EU understanding and transmission. The partners contribute to guidance in (1) content: Joint European Master Euroculture (2) lead digital and immersive technologies and transmission: School of Education, University College Dublin with partners - META and Microsoft and (3) coordination of the youth groups activities and learning processes - European NGO led by EDIW, also project coordinator. Young people will be main actors: create messages and stories, scenario building, engage in the immersive experiences, debates and communication - dissemination plans.

Title: Innovation alliance to infuse Extended Reality skills into Higher education and Abstract Multiple recent studies and surveys are underlining a gap in extended reality (VR/AR) theory and practice training modules within engineering schools and vocational training centres. This gap is causing a continuous shortage of relevant skills within a booming industry and thus, hindering faster and better development of commercial products and services. In this context, the Alliance4XR is set on co-creating and testing a well-tailored teaching and training methodology and material for empowering HEIs and VET to successfully address the challenge of XR digital skills in the engineering sector in a sustainable way. This methodology and material will enhance the capacity and knowledge of HEIs, VET in successfully addressing the technological and access to-market challenges that students and trainees face when entering the engineering sector. The methodology will be co-defined, deployed, tested, quality assessed and improved through local initiatives with the active involvement of HEIs, VETs, business and industry stakeholders. This digital skills gap for extended reality and engineering will be bridged by mapping the syllabi horizontally on a European level, identifying the needs for AR/VR teaching, devising the material and providing training and teaching packages with demos, sample data and customisable software.

Five key ideas exist in the area of Artificial Intelligence: Perception, Representation and Reasoning, Learning, Natural Interaction and Societal Impact. This research project aims to consider the contribution (positive and negative) of AI in the field of education and address the ‘readiness’ of Teacher Education to utilise AI as a tool for supporting student teachers’ development in teaching and learning.

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Centre of Excellence in Global Citizenship Education