UPT at the European Researchers' Night: Nighttime explorations, digital education, experiments and interactive tours at the UPT Technical Museum. Admission is free
Politehnica University Timișoara, through the Department of ID/IFR and Digital Education, together with the Multimedia Center and the cultural project Spotlight Heritage Timișoara, invites you to participate in a new edition of the European Researchers' Night event in 2025!
On September 26, between 6:00 PM and 11:00 PM, we are waiting for you at UPT Technical Museum / ExperimentariumTM (Splaiul Spiru Haret) for an evening full of experiments, journeys through virtual worlds, but also a look at the future of education, through the research results of the E³UDRES² Ent-re-novators project.
Admission is free – visitors will become virtual tourists of the city and will discover the history, culture and heritage of Timișoara through unique alternative methods, having the opportunity to interact with a complex real-virtual world, through the use of state-of-the-art digital technologies!
What you can explore:
- A fascinating foray into the history of computer science, with a close look at MECIPT-1, the first Romanian university computer, presented by our experts.
- The stories of people and 5 historic neighborhoods from Timisoara;
- Interactive edutainment, mobile and mixed reality applications;
- Latest apps Heritage in the spotlight/Spotlight Heritage Timișoara Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (AR/MR));
- AR games, through which you can discover the history and multiculturalism of the city, but also interact with objects from the city's cultural heritage;
- Nokia VR Bell Labs Museum – a virtual reality application that offers participants the opportunity to visit the history of telephones (application created by students of the Multimedia Technologies master's degree launched during the event) Nokia Bell Labs 100).
- Fun times with science and technology applications
All installations are included in the cultural project Spotlight Heritage Timișoara, part of the European Researchers' Night event.
Spotlight Heritage Timișoara/Heritage under the spotlight is a digital cultural initiative of the Politehnica University of Timișoara carried out in partnership with the National Museum of Banat, part of the Cultural Program Timișoara 2023 European Capital of Culture. Cultural project co-financed by the Municipality of Timișoara through the Project Center, the Timiș County Council, the Ministry of Culture, EEA and Norway Grants.
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