The CIDA, in collaboration with educational associations and European entities, has been an active part of the ARVET project. This project, carried out between 2021 and 2023 with funding from the Erasmus KA-202 program, focused on promoting the use of digital tools, including digital beacons and Augmented Reality (AR), to facilitate practical teaching in Vocational and Educational Training (VET) aimed at students with disabilities.
Led by FUNDEUN and involving institutions such as the General Directorate of VET and Special Regime Teachings of the Valencian Community and training centers in Spain, Romania, and Finland, the project sought to provide an innovative methodology and tools that would enable students with disabilities to perform manipulative tasks autonomously.
The CIPFP Canastell, along with other participating centers, has conducted tests with students in Special Education and Basic VT programs in Vehicle Maintenance and Kitchen and Restoration. These programs used selected AR tools for specific activities, such as learning to use a digital multimeter, operating a forklift, or using an industrial coffee maker.
Mª Ángeles Ferrández, vice-director of the center, explained that two groups were established to compare learning methods: one that followed traditional methods to learn the use of the digital multimeter and another that used AR tools to learn how to use the industrial coffee maker. At the end, both students and teachers participated in surveys to assess the effectiveness of both methods.
This education training applied innovation project has as objective to include the technology into the VET degrees program, Higher VET degree transport and logistic and international trading.
The immersive reality applied to vocational training students allows them to see the loading and uploading operations of containers in the port without leaving the classroom. This is an example of what the use emerging technologies though the innovation can mean for the educational world.
This is where the importance of educational innovation lies a commitment embraced by the CIPFP Ausias March and IES El Grau centres, both located in Valencia. They are coordinated by the centre of Excellence IES Pere Boïl in Manises, in collaboration with Valencia Port Foundation and the company Quaser Dynamics.
Through this project, titled INMERSIVE REALITY IN PORT OPERATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE, SEVERAL 360º 3D videos has been created where the students have actively participated in the organization and structuring of the videos to accurately depict the reality for subsequence exploration. The goal is to incorporate the result in the curriculum of the vocational training degree that they are undertaking.
The use of this technique facilitates the teaching-learning process while simultaneously reducing the travel cost for students and teachers to companies. It enables visits to hazardous work environments such as ship loading and uploading docks and hard-to-reach spaces during the training process in educational centres.
The collaboration among teachers from different centres has also boosted the students’ motivation and eased their transition into professional life. Bringing real-world experiences to student during the training process will enable them to enhance their employability and, in turn, reduce the training period within the company and its work environments.
A real example completely realistic and an immersive experience in first-person that will facilitate learning in an unconventional way.
At CIDA, we are committed to bring visibility to innovation projects like these.
The Advanced Digital Innovation Center for Vocational Training of the Valencian Community (CIDA) participate in the event:
METASKILLS4TCLF — ERASMUS-EDU-2022-PI-ALL-INNO-BLUEPRINT – KICK OFF MEETING
Which will be held next Tuesdasy and Wednesday, september 26-27, at the facilities of the Footwear Technological Center in S. João da Madeira and the Portuguese Association of Footwear, Components, Leather Goods and Their Substitutes in Oporte – Portugal.
The new METASKILLS4TCLF proposal, in which 30 partners participate, is solid and ambitious, and responds to all the objectives of the Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation in the field of Skills. In addition, it continues with the project in which the DGFP of the Valencian community also Skills4Smart TCLF Industries 2030.
This event aims to:
Innovative digitalisation in competences for new needs in the Textile, Clothing, Leather and Footwear sector with RX simulators on a European campus.
Strong partnership of digital competencies in TCLF sectors, with stakeholders.
Smart digitization in terms of skills, for the forecasting and monitoring of new TCLF needs.
New modular curricula and “Inside Fashion” training modules (both for vocational training and for workforce development), all tested in pilots.
Innovative modular content, VR training and learning tools.
An European Virtual Reality Campus.
A training package for trainers and teachers to strengthen the supply and demand of qualifications.
An awareness campaign on attractiveness and inclusion in TCLF industries and the corresponding tools
The Erasmus+ project dissemination day for schools in Alicante will be held on 12 July 2022 at the CIPFP Valle de Elda. The link for registration is as follows: Servicio de Formación del Profesorado (gva.es)
This project is aimed at facilitating the autonomous performance of individual manipulative tasks in VET practices to the group of students with disabilities. The development of a teaching tool based on the combined use of digital beacons and augmented reality (AR) in production lines with manipulative workstations, will mean, in addition to the elimination of the costs of support staff for students with disabilities , an innovative teaching tool of great use for the rest of the students without disabilities. More information.
On March 3rd, we celebrated in the facilities of Distrito Digital, in the magnificent Crystal Hall and in CIDA facilities, the first RetODS Innovation Day with students who come from Higher Level of VET degrees in the Valencian Community.
The event was organized by the Center for Advanced Digital Innovation FOR VET (CIDA) under the auspices of the General Directorate of VET, on which we depend. The day was opened thanking the entity Sociedad de Proyectos Temáticos de la Comunitat Valenciana for allowing us to use their facilities and the facilities to contact companies belonging to that entity. Also the assistance of the General Manager of Innovation and European Programs, Carmen Navarro, who explained the programs that education goverment facilitates for the centers of our Community to develop their entrepreneurship programs (Empren program), improvement of educational quality (Qualitas program), methodological innovation (Innovatec program) and accreditation of competences (Acredita program).
And indispensable were the companies, that were a representation of innovative companies in the technology and digital sector, located in the digital district that have been the promoters, drivers and facilitators of the challenges that the students had to solve:
Aire Networks, national telecommunications operator.
Teralco Group, digital transformation in companies.
Accenture, consulting and innovative solutions for companies.
Mediapro, leading company in the audiovisual sector.
Minsait by Indra, information technology digital transformation consulting firm.
Barrabés, company promoting innovation program in tourism.
Tilúa, assistive home automation.
The aim of this day was to promote entrepreneurial vocations in the students of FP and that students give innovative solutions to the challenges and problems posed by companies, working in record time and collaboratively in teams, between people from different backgrounds that had never met before. A real challenge that they solved in a magnificent way, giving a lesson to their teachers and facilitators who work with them in the classrooms. They changed their educational environment and faced for the first time a professional environment, accompanied by professionals from a different sector than their own who, on the other hand, facilitated and helped them in the resolution of this task.
Our role, as an Administration, is to contribute to spread objectives that improve people’s lives and to establish alliances to achieve them. On this occasion, the objectives that were being worked on the following
Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda
To give them visibility and that they could easily relate to the challenges, we had the help of four teachers from IES La Costera de Xàtiva who knew how to make students to understand how this Agenda allows citizens to improve the lives of others and our environment. A sample, once again of what the education system is capable of doing, linking the needs of businesses, the environment and the lives of people.
The companies presented the students with four different challenges related to the Objectives:
1 – How to improve teacher training in underdeveloped countries? How to solve the problem of difficult access to technology and the Internet?
How could you demystify that the STEAM world is made for them? How could you highlight the attractiveness of STEAM professions (science, technology, art, engineering, mathematics) in VET to increase the number of women in them?
How to improve people’s safety when traveling in individual mobility vehicles?
Audiovisual media for everyone: How to make audiovisual content 100% accessible?
VET students demonstrated that, with quality education, it is possible to improve health and wellbeing, gender equality and the reduction of inequalities and, through the use of affordable and non-polluting energies, apply them to industry and innovation to develop decent jobs and economic growth. The companies were able to discover the enormous talent of the VET students. They gave in a short period of time, just for one day, innovative, creative, ingenious and sustainable answers. At the same time they showed their social commitment and social skills, something so necessary to perform a profession. The participating centers were:
IES José Antonio Cavanilles of Alicante, with students of the CFGS of Telecommunications and Computer Systems.
CIPFP Batoi de Alcoi, with the CFGS of Social Integration.
IES La Torreta de Elda, with the CFGS in Automation and Industrial Robotics.
IES Severo Ochoa de Elche, with the CFGS in Web Applications Development and the CFGS in Marketing and Advertising.
IES Maciá Abela, in Crevillente, with the CFGS in Physical Conditioning.
IES San Vicente del Raspeig with the CFGS in Network Computer Systems Administration.
IES Salvador Gadea de Aldaia with the CFGS of Styling and Hairdressing Management.
CIDA Advisors who have been in the work rooms have proven that it is possible to establish partnerships to achieve shared objectives between business and vocational training. This was demonstrated by the results obtained with the excellent work done by all of them who gave as solutions:
These are the solutions that emerged as products created by the students and that the jury valued for each of the rooms.
Finally, the companies promoting the event proceeded to give the prizes to the winners as a token of the excellent work done, surrounded by the smiles of satisfaction of all attendees.
A great job that we will repeat in future editions expanding the number of participants, both educationally and professionally, to show the enormous talent found in our vocational education training.
This event is addressed to students of Vocational Education Training of the Valencian Community participating in the Innovatec program. Proposed and coordinated by the VET Regional Goberment, in collaboration with Distrito Digital and dynamized by CIDA.
The aim of the event is that the leading companies of technology and digital sector propose to VET students from different professional VET fields, some of the challenges that they will encounter in their work environment. These challenges are linked to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Teachers and professional specialists from the most advanced technological sector of companies will work hand by hand to propose solutions that allow them to discover the talent offered by the most modern and innovative VET.
From the Advanced Digital Innovation Center we will coordinate the activities of this day with the aim of connecting companies and VET centers and give visibility to the enormous potential found in this training to meet the needs of different professional sectors.
Objectives of RetODS Innovation Day
To become familiar with the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
To raise awareness of entrepreneurship opportunities based on business needs and social challenges.
To discover the talent of VET students in a team competition.
To use in a collaborative way and with learning-by-doing methodologies the spirit of entrepreneurship as one of the key competences for the professional development of students.
To discover solutions to social, environmental and economic problems that improve the future of society.
To create solutions with the possibility to become a real social project.
Who can participate in the RetODS Innovation Day?
The RetODS Innovation Day is addressed to students of Higher Level Training Cycles of the Valencian Community and who are working with active methodologies within the Innovatec program.
They will work in groups of students from different professional families and different vocational training centers in the Valencian Community to give innovative, creative and ingenious answers to some of the challenges presented by companies in the Digital District.
The RetODS Innovation Day aims to generate innovative and entrepreneurial projects of enormous social impact, as well as to raise awareness among students about the opportunities for entrepreneurship based on the needs of companies and social challenges.
RetODS Innovation Day program
RetODS Innovation Day Awards.
Participants will receive a gift from the organization.
In addition, the teams that come up with the best solution to each challenge will receive a prize.
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) framework programme for research and innovation (R&I) for the period 2021-2027.
It is the instrument for implementing the EU’s R&D&I policies. The overall objective of the programme is to achieve a scientific, technological, economic and societal impact of EU investments in R&I, fostering the competitiveness of all Member States.
The Horizon Europe Programme will have a three-pillar structure: Excellent Science, will fund research projects designed and led by researchers. It will also support the career development and training of research staff.
Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, will fund research, strengthen industrial technological capabilities towards major global challenges (health, climate change, renewable energies, mobility, security, digital, materials, etc.). Innovative Europe, aims to make Europe a pioneering power in market-creating innovation and the growth of innovative SMEs.
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