ORANGE: CREATIVITY, INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY Erasmus Project

Project Title

ORANGE: CREATIVITY, INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

<< Background >>

O-City project has developed a virtual platform, called O-City Planet, which comprises a web application O-City World (o-city.org) and an e-learning platform with the aim to stimulate their orange economy. The O-City World is an online application to visualize the natural and cultural heritage of our cities through multimedia items (photo, videos, animations, …) that will be developed as educational projects in the classrooms of training centres and institutions.

<< Objectives >>

O-City pursues 3 objectives:Digital transformation of traditional economic sectors through the training of professionals and the economic promotion of cities by cultural tourism.Introduction of innovative educational tools through training plans in both professional and personal skills designed to facilitate the work of teachers in their classrooms.Discovery and promotion of the culture, heritage, traditions and natural environment of the world’s cities.

<< Implementation >>

In the O-City project two major tools have been implemented:The World of Cities O-City.org, a responsive web application to visualize the natural and cultural heritage of cities. This (distributed management) application involves different actors such as municipal public managers, university heads, teachers, etc.The O-City educational platform, designed for teachers, which offers open courses distributed in 4 training modules in business, technical (multimedia), cultural and soft skills.

<< Results >>

E-learning platform: creation of 17 courses aimed to teachers, with activities that can be directly used in the classrooms. The 6 technical courses include how to implement E-SCRUM as agile methodology to be used in Project-based learning (PBL). We had 214.222 visits to our courses from June 2021 to December 2021.O-City World: there are 139 cities, 27 Universities, 433 heritage elements and 149 creative items represented. 518 students have been involved in the development of city nodes.

Project Website

https://o-city.webs.upv.es

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 992472 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE
• CONSORZIO MATERAHUB INDUSTRIE CULTURALI E CREATIVE
• MANTIS PASCHALIS
• INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL COMPETENCIAS EN EL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE 2015-2030
• MARKEUT SKILLS SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
• BSC, POSLOVNO PODPORNI CENTER, DOO
• ZAVOD CARNICA – ZAVOD ZA KULTURO IN TURIZEM