Digital Training Toolbox for Entrepreneurial Training in Augmented Reality Erasmus Project
General information for the Digital Training Toolbox for Entrepreneurial Training in Augmented Reality Erasmus Project
Project Title
Digital Training Toolbox for Entrepreneurial Training in Augmented Reality
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 2017
Project Topics
This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses
Project Summary
The AROMA project was motivated by the EU’s Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan and in particular by the need to amplify Europe’s entrepreneurial potential. A survey, which was one of the project outcomes and served as a base for the design and the development of the project materials, confirmed several motivating expectations. Though the augmented reality (AR) technology gradually finds its way into business, education and common life, it can be still considered like relatively unknown and there is a gap and need to promote the awareness about the technology. Generally, many experts expects the technology can help to rise the efficiency, could accelerate training, make learning and training more dynamic and could also enable to solve problems faster. Moreover, digital skills and ICT competencies are generally considered as key and crucial to develop in today’s education and training. This situation supports the need of providing training in augmented reality to relevant audience using a practical and hands-on approach.
The overall objective of the AROMA project was to develop an on-line course “Augmented reality and Business Skills” and supporting materials (the course curriculum, supporting train the trainer course, case-studies, live-demos) that altogether form a digital training toolbox through which the project’s target audience, especially those entering the topics, can be provided with training in augmented reality technology, can learn about its principles, possibilities and get some practical experience with it. A special feature of the course is a connection with training in business skills and competencies, for which the technology may serve as an important tool. The aim was to motivate a novel breed of entrepreneurs that should able to exploit the technology in different business scenarios and hopefully find the way how to use it for their activities. All the materials as a comprehensive digital toolbox should facilitate vocational education (VET) trainers in their creation of their modular training, compiling other relevant case-studies etc. Designed innovative educational curriculum integrating training in augmented reality and multilingual training in business skills can be flexibly applicable in various contexts. An integral part of the toolbox is the created AROMA e-Learning Management System maintained also after the project completion.
The project brought together 8 European partners with a specific mix of profiles, backgrounds and expertise relevant for various aspects of the project including vocational education provision, augmented reality technology expertise, pan -European entrepreneurship association, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supporting organisation, higher education and adult learning as well as the world of work.
The pedagogic methodology of the AROMA project is based on the ‘train the trainers’ and modular approach and all the outcomes are freely available from the project website sites.google.com/view/ka2project/. The project targeted primarily on vocational education trainers with the expectation that though this community the AROMA results might reach out to the end target audience all those interested augmented reality technology in context with setting-up business or specialized training and skills development e.g. existing entrepreneurs, start-up entrepreneurs, social enterprises, stakeholders, business incubators and centres, and secondary to any adult learners, and higher education students.
EU Grant (Eur)
Funding of the project from EU: 257750,75 Eur
Project Coordinator
UNIVERZITA PALACKEHO V OLOMOUCI & Country: CZ
Project Partners
- IRIS ORGANISMOS KATARTISIS A.E.
- EUROPEAN CONFEDERATION OF YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS AISBL
- RPIC-ViP s.r.o.
- SMEBOX AB
- UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI
- MACDAC ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY BUREAU LTD – MECB
- MEDIA CREATIVA 2020, S.L.