Alliance4XR

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Project challenge & objective: 

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 cocreating and testing a well-tailored teaching and training methodology and material for empowering Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Vocational Education and Training (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.

Role of CMMI:

CMMI will be involved in the development of Alliance4XR’s teaching and training curricula, that will be suitable for professionals and engineers in marine and maritime professions. In addition, CMMI’s contribution to the project regarding the development of the teaching and training material will include identifying green and digital skills that can be supported and enhanced through XR, based on market needs, emerging professions and existing teaching and training material (matching of green agendas to green and digital skills).

Moreover, CMMI’s role in Alliance4XR includes:

• Demonstrating that the project’s methodology for promoting the usage of XR technologies to enhance green skills can be replicated by HEIs, VET, and other institutions in practice, across diverse contexts.
• Achieving large-scale demonstration, by ensuring that the teaching and training material developed in the project will be demonstrated to HEIs, VET outside the consortium partners. This will be implemented by organising “Vocational excellence” events targeting professionals, providers of training services, maritime industries, vocational centres, and business sector representatives, under CMMI’s Centre of Vocational Excellence for Blue Professions (Blue Cove).