{"id":23395,"date":"2022-12-05T17:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.upt.ro\/?p=23395"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T10:38:46","slug":"digital-skills-for-education-innovation-international-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.upt.ro\/en\/comunitate\/digital-skills-for-education-innovation-international-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"The seventh edition of the Digital Skills for Education & Innovation International Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds of participants were together both online and physically on Friday, December 9, 2022, at the 7th edition of the international workshop dedicated to digital skills in education and innovation. The event was a real success, with 27 speakers, European experts, experienced teaching staff, as well as student entrepreneurs and people from the creative industries.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

The <\/span>Digital Skills for Education & Innovation<\/b> was organized by ID\/IFR and e-Learning Center<\/b> and Multimedia Center<\/b><\/a> \u2013 he Politehnica University of Timi\u0219oara, Romania (UPT)<\/a>, in collaboration with European University Alliance <\/a>E\u00b3UDRES\u00b2 partners<\/b><\/a> and Entrepreneurship and Innovation Network for Smart and Sustainable European Regions <\/a>EINS<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and IEEE Romania Association<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>

The presentations of successful actions in the field of education and innovation, the future education and innovation plans provided by universities, schools and companies, as well as various concepts on<\/span> Digital Competences, Open science, Digital Entrepreneurship, Augmented\/Virtual\/Extended Reality, Experimental Media<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Blockchain <\/span><\/i>but also presentations of some startups<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>supported by UPT, were the points of interest of this workshop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This year's edition focused in particular on the creation of communities that support the same values, on supporting them in the development of skills in the field of education and innovation, but also on the role of European Universities, especially in the context of projects supported by the partnership E\u00b3UDRES\u00b2 partners<\/strong><\/a> and EINS<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>

Practical examples of the use and integration of digital elements, virtual and augmented reality (AR & VR & XR) applications in medicine, education and in the promotion of cultural heritage and creative industries were another point of great interest of this event.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOpen Badges Participant<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tParticipation was free, the presentations were held in both Romanian and English and the participants received Digital Skills for Education & Innovation Participant Open Badges<\/i><\/b> for online participation and in addition, Certificates of Participation <\/b> for physical participants, in the hall.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Projects of major interest for the European community<\/b><\/p>

The workshop also included case studies about the impact that digitization has on education and culture, with examples from Timi\u0219oara but also from Europe, as well as about the initiatives and projects that can shape the education of the future.<\/span><\/p>

Among the examples of good practice offered are the projects Traace<\/a>, Augwearedu<\/a>, Acadigia<\/a>, OpenDigCompEdu<\/a> <\/i>and EBSI4RO \u2013 Connecting Romania through Blockchain,<\/i><\/a> <\/i>\u00a0E\u00b3UDRES\u00b2 partners<\/a> and EINS <\/a><\/i><\/span>and the culture and digital heritage project, Heritage under spotlights \/ Spotlight Heritage Timisoara<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Top presenters and topics of current interest<\/strong><\/p>

The event was opened by\u00a0Prof.dr.ing. Radu Vasiu<\/b>, President of the Senate Politehnica University Timi\u0219oara, Romania. Among the guests who honored the event with their presence at the opening was also\u00a0 P<\/strong>rof. Cristian-Gyozo Haba<\/b>, <\/strong>IEEE Education Romania Chapter Chair, who shared the experience gained over the years of activity in the field of education and technology and spoke about the impact that European universities have in the field of innovation and education.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Prof.dr.ing. Radu Vasiu<\/strong> continued with a presentation on university actions for a smart and innovative region, talking about the revolutionary initiatives of the European University Alliance E\u00b3UDRES\u00b2 partners<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Network E\u00b3UDRES\u00b2 partners<\/a> for smart and sustainable European regions\u00a0\u00a0EINS <\/b><\/a><\/p>

The initiatives are based on actions to co-create new ways for entrepreneurial universities to stimulate and develop entrepreneurial education, but also on advanced support for innovation. The President of the UPT Senate also spoke about the business accelerator projects, implemented by the Politehnica University of Timi\u0219oara especially for students, to improve knowledge beyond the current state, in areas such as IT, creative industries, tourism, health, energy.<\/p>

Prog. Eng. Radu Vasiu ended the presentation with an interactive exercise, through which he found out what are the most important activities of the European Universities project E\u00b3UDRES\u00b2 partners<\/a> for the present audience.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ilona Buchem<\/strong>, Professor for Communication & Media Sciences, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany spoke about the perspectives and results from a virtual exchange program, carried out during the summer term 2022 with university professors and students from three universities in Germany, Israel and the USA. The goal of the virtual exchange was to bring students together to collaborate in international teams, learn from each other, and give each other feedback in social robot learning experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Ent-re-no-va-tors project and its impact in universities was presented by\u00a0 Dr. Raquel Barreira <\/strong>from the Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal. Raquel continued the presentation with a question to the participants related to digital innovation and citizen engagement during the research process.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Thomas Jorgensen<\/strong>, Director of Policy Coordination and Foresight, European Universities Association gave an online presentation on institutional transformation in a changing legal context. The question "Are universities trailblazers or rule takers?" was the basis of the theme discussed in this presentation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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He spoke about the role of universities in strengthening regional innovation ecosystems Asst. Prof. Dr. Sjoerd de Vries<\/strong> from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, EIT HEI Prometheus. The presentation focused on the project Prometheus,<\/em> which proposes the development of a common ecosystem with the local communities between the 8 partners and the 31 associated partners of the project. The main objectives of these communities are to strengthen relationships, collaborative innovation, develop entrepreneurship and strengthen and facilitate lifelong learning.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0Dr.<\/strong> Diana Andone<\/b>, Director of the UPT e-Learning Center, then took the floor, presenting the numerous actions for the digital transformation of universities and the vision for the development of<\/span>digital competences for education and innovation <\/span>among teaching staff, students, as well as for UPT collaborators, through the initiatives and projects carried out by the Politehnica University of Timi\u0219oara. The director of CeL presented various practical examples of the use and integration of digital elements, augmented and mixed virtual reality applications in education and culture, focusing on ways to attractively promote museums, exact sciences and arts among young people, with the help of robotics, AR, VR and MR applications from the USA, Europe and Timisoara.<\/span><\/p>

In addition to the many resources offered, the director of CeL mentioned as examples of good practices:<\/p>