VTECH is an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project led by the Aleksander Moisiu University of Durrës, Albania. The consortium has 11 partners out of which 6 are HEIs form Albania and Kosovo, and 5 partners HEIs from program countries namely Estonia, Poland, Slovenia and the Republic of North Macedonia. The project is envisaged to last for 3 years.
VTECH project’s general aim is to introduce for the first time at Western Balkan universities the concept of Virtual Technologies as a tool for accelerating university modernization, while contributing on developing knowledge-driven society.
By incorporating Virtual Technology in the academic culture of universities, this project aims at increasing the quality and level of efficiency in teaching and knowledge retention through interactive learning methods, thus contributing on skills enhancement and further building of digital society at Western Balkans countries.
Some of the trainings are listed below:
The purpose of this training was to equip students with competencies to use/access tools, software, and platforms of the virtual reality. In addition to providing students with immersive learning experiences and the ability to inspire students’ creativity and spark their imaginations
During this 3-day training held at Epoka University members from different universities were familiarized with basics of VR/AR implemented on mobile devices. All participants learned about rules, methods and basic implementation of them. This resulted on building a simple mobile app which detects planes on 3D space, in real environments.
The host of the HACKATHON was Mother Teresa University (UMT), Skopje, North Macedonia, that in collaboration with ERASMUS + and all partner Universities in this project, organized the event with host organizer Prof.Dr. Bekim Fetaji, Faculty of Informatics, UMT.
The HACKATHON in VR / AR was open to all students from all partner Universities and also other Universities and other interested individuals, or companies from the region had the right to participate. The Jury commission selected the 3 most successful projects and determined the winner and distributed prizes. All participants received a Certificate from ERASMUS + and the winners will receive the awards. The event will be organized again next year in one of the partner Universities.