Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships
Partnership for Digital Education Readiness
PARFORCE: Partnership for virtual laboratories in civil engineering
Bauhaus University Weimar (BUW) - Chair of Advanced Structures has been awarded with 287.470,00 EUR from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to take lead in constituting a strategic partnership between Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), University Aveiro (UA), University Osijek (UNIOS), and Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS). The strategic partnership is within the framework of the Erasmus+ strategic partnership for digital education program (2022-2023), under the project title “PARFORCE: Partnership for virtual laboratories in civil engineering”.
PARFORCE aims at developing a joint platform for digital/virtual laboratory experiments to support European civil engineering higher education, and thus, making an essential contribution to the understanding of teaching materials by students. The main objective of the project is to make various laboratory experiments available virtually, which are not a part of standard education at each university but are carried out at specialized institutes. The results and experiences of the proposed project will be presented, at the end of the project, in special sessions at various national and international conferences in the form of presentations and publications.
The objectives of this strategic partnership are:
- Development of a concept for performing experiments in a VR environment including the definition of minimum standards necessary for implementing the concept in HE of civil engineers.
- Elaboration of an openly accessible platform for VR experiments.
- Preparation of VR experiments by each project partner and their integration into the open platform.
- Provision of approved e-learning scenarios (teaching methods and learning media) for digital and collaborative learning environment, taking benefit from the partner expertise and facilities for newly introduced jointly taught M.Sc. and PhD courses in CE.
- Implementation of collaborative online international learning opportunities for M.Sc. students at partners universities in form of jointly supervised courses.
- Increasing the quality and attractiveness of the study programs at the project partners through inclusive, sustainable, and integrated internationalization and digitalization of curricula which will ultimately improve the international competitiveness of the partners in the global competition for highly qualified and socially committed scientific talents from all over the world
Erasmus+ is the education, youth and sport program of the European Union. Erasmus+ brings together existing EU programs for lifelong learning, youth and sport, as well as European cooperation programs in higher education. The seven-year program aims to enhance skills and employability and to promote the modernization of education, training and child and youth services.
The creation of these resources has been funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2020-1-DE01-KA226-HE-005783.
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