VIrtuell TRAINing for traditional Crafts Erasmus Project

Project Title

VIrtuell TRAINing for traditional Crafts

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Research and innovation; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

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 digitisation 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 an certification process provided by ECQA (www.ecqa.org), 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 – Innovation and Creative Solutions for Cultural Heritage, a Pilot project for Cultural and Creative Industries, Finance, Learning, Innovation and Patenting for Cultural and Creative Industries – (FLIP) for CCIs-2

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 281634 Eur

Project Coordinator

BURGHAUPTMANNSCHAFT OSTERREICH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• UBW UNTERNEHMENSBERATUNG WAGENHOFERGMBH
• UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA
• SECRETARIA GERAL DA PRESIDENCIA DA REPUBLICA
• ECQA GMBH
• NARODNY TRUST NO
• magyar reneszansz alapitvany
• IMC FACHHOCHSCHULE KREMS GMBH