Exclusive digital applications, Timisoara in VR and journeys in the digital world at the European Researchers' Night 2024 and Open Campus Night 2024
On September 27 and 28, the Politehnica University of Timișoara, together with the Digital Education Department and UPT Creative Campus, through the Spotlight Heritage Timisoara cultural project, participated in the European Researchers' Night 2024 and Open Campus Night 2024.
The two dynamic events, which focus on experiential learning, gave thousands of people the opportunity to discover Timisoara in the digital world and beyond, discovering unique digital applications, dynamic installations and VR and MR applications created within the Spotlight Heritage Timisoara project, becoming virtual tourists in the digital world!
All these have been realized by students and professors from Politehnica University of Timișoara, in partnership with international students and international faculties from the European University Alliance E³UDRES², local and international artists and not only, creating a complex portfolio of objects, applications, installations and creative projects.
Timisoara European Researchers' Night 2024
On September 27, at Nokia Campus, a new edition of the European Researchers' Night took place this year, hosting dozens of partners and guests who invited the general public to an unforgettable experience of the world of science.
This year, the Digital Education Department, together with the Spotlight Heritage Timisoara cultural project created an immersive space for the participants, where the public could discover different digital projects and installations created by students from the Politehnica University of Timisoara, in partnership with international students from the European University Alliance E³UDRES².
Over 1600 people, ranging from energetic and enthusiastic children to curious parents who wanted to try and experience the digital applications and installations, and the students had the opportunity to present their projects and examples from the I Living Labs study program.
These included:
- The stories of people and 5 historic neighborhoods in Timisoara;
- Interactive edutainment, mobile and mixed reality interactive applications;
- Spotlight Heritage Timisoara's latest Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (AR/MR) apps;
- Games in AR, through which they could interact with historical objects from the city's cultural heritage, from the archive of the National Museum of Banat.
The Open Campus Night was organized on September 28 and brought the UPT Technical Museum to the forefront, offering the public the opportunity to discover the museum's exhibits, physics and chemistry experiments and more.
For all those who could not attend the European Researchers' Night, Spotlight Heritage Timisoara, through the Digital Education Department, in partnership with UPT Campus Creativ, prepared for them another unforgettable evening. More than 300 visitors had another chance to interact with the digital applications and installations realized over the years.
In addition to the attractions already presented at the European Researchers' Night 2024, the public also discovered:
- Spotlight Heritage Timisoara – Patterns of Poetry: discovering Timisoara through poetry and color (artist: Marius Jurca, 13m10j);
- 𝐿𝐡𝐲𝐮𝐮 𝐀𝐈 Garden: a dynamic virtual garden with virtual plants and mushrooms (artists: Anna Dumitriu & Alex May, in collaboration with CAPABLE Project and BioArt Revolution);
- History of Information Technologies: they visited MECIPT-1, the first university computer in Romania, as well as all the other technological devices to see with their own eyes the technological evolution of our era;
- The History of Computers through Plan Zero - Retro IT - Computer Museum, which invited visitors to discover old computers, both Romanian from the CIP/HC range, as well as a number of laptops from the 80s and 90s, most of them functional;
- The ExperimentariumTM Interactive Physical Phenomena Presentation Center – discovering physical phenomena and experiments that allowed participants to become active explorers, increasing their confidence in their own ability to understand how the universe works;
- International science applications, presented by UPT partners from the E³UDRES² European University Alliance and E³UDRES² Ent-re-innovators partners.
Projects with an impact on the European community
The Politehnica University of Timișoara openly and actively supports personal and academic development for all its students and partners, which is why international partnerships with partners such as the European University Alliance E³UDRES² and E³UDRES² Ent-re-innovators, are a part of UPT's offering as many opportunities as possible through study programs such as I Living Labs – which has extracurricular course units in which teams of students work on a challenge.
The E³UDRES² European University Alliance and its partners aim to actively develop all partner institutions and their regions by creating opportunities for students, staff and citizens to get involved in their community.
The digital components of the Spotlight Heritage Timisoara project is accessible online at https://spotlight-timisoara.eu/ and through mobile applications that can be downloaded from Android and Apple stores or by searching for "Spotlight Heritage Timisoara".
- Link apps for Android users: https://is.gd/SjiIgv
- App link for iOS users: https://is.gd/y6JxeV
Information about the event is also available on:
- Website: https://spotlight-timisoara.eu/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpotlightHeritageTimisoara/
- Twitter: @spotlight_TM21
- Instagram: @spotlight_tmInstagram: @spotlight_tm
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