I-TRACE, Immersive TRAining for aerospaCE Erasmus Project

Project Title

I-TRACE, Immersive TRAining for aerospaCE

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 : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Launched in November 2018 and over its 24 months of duration, the project had the priority objective of experimenting in the education chain (secondary and tertiary education and training segments), the application of new training methods and teaching methodologies focused on the use of virtual reality (augmented, extended, mixed), in order to assess the innovation of these technologies and related forms of learning, both in terms of innovation of curricula and benefits for trainees. The constant collaboration between the partners and the direct involvement of stakeholders, first of all, the companies of the aerospace supply chains of the different partner countries (Italy, Spain, Poland, Norway), has allowed to obtain all the expected results.
The intellectual products developed, are the following: 1) COMPARED RESEARCH ON KEY COMPETENCE FACTORS IN THE AEROSPACE SECTOR: the output aims to systematize the results of the needs analysis carried out in the field in the different countries of the partnership, through the administration of a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews to HR managers of companies in the sector. The action of qualitative analysis in the field has involved a total of 14 companies, Poland, 8 Italy, 5 Spain, 3 Norway. 2) REPERTORY OF GOOD PRACTICES ON THE USE OF TECHNICAL COMPETENCES: the digitization of production processes, as well as the innovation of production techniques in the field of advanced mechanics and aerospace, require the availability on the market of skills and profiles able to metabolize and govern these innovations. This also implies the need for the actors of the training system to increase their ability and speed of response in providing training proposals that meet and anchor the demands of economic operators. The repertoire of good practices represents a common and available knowledge base to enhance experiences carried out in different educational contexts, through immersive training that can constitute a methodology capable of reducing the learning time of future “professionals” in the sector. 3) GUIDELINES FOR THE DESIGN, MANAGEMENT, EVALUATION OF TECHNICAL CURRICULAR TRAINING INTERVENTIONS THROUGH THE METHODOLOGY OF IMMERSIVE TRAINING: the guidelines will bring to value the results of the pilot training courses carried out by the partners with target groups of students, teachers and trainers in each country and within secondary and tertiary training courses. The output will be a milestone of the project also in a perspective of sharing and debate with operators, companies, institutional actors.
In the European panorama, as well as in the Italian context, I-TRACE has been characterized by a strong innovation and originality, aimed at starting a joint reflection between VET providers, industrial leaders, companies, policy makers to assess the extent of innovation of the immersive training methodology and its possible applications in educational contexts at different levels of technical education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 284139,25 Eur

Project Coordinator

Associazione di promozione sociale FO.RI.S & Country: IT

Project Partners

• POLITECHNIKA RZESZOWSKA IM IGNACEGO LUKASIEWICZA PRZ
• CONSELL GENERAL DE LES CAMBRES OFICIALS DE COMERC INDUSTRIA I NAVEGACIO DE CATALUNYA
• Istituto Tecnico Settore Tecnologico “E.FERMI”
• UNIVERSITETET I STAVANGER
• Institut Illa dels Banyols
• CADLAND SRL