

VI-TRAIN: Virtuell Training for traditional Crafts
About
Cultural Heritage (CH) is in the focus of the European Union as motor for employment, economic drive and development. In order to guarantee longevity & usability of European Heritage it is inevitable to keep up with the requirements of society like new technology and digitisation.
The Covid19 crisis added some urgency to the issue as training organisations strongly suffer from restrictions and new rules, which are threatening traditional education and training activities. Especially in regards to hands-on-training, where instructors need to get really close to learners in order to teach practical skills.
The consortium of VI-TRAIN takes on the challenge of developing innovative training for traditional/threatened crafts and handling of building damages, which will boost the digitisation of training in (built) Cultural Heritage. A big focus is given to crafts that are almost nowhere trained any more. Lots of those crafts do need a lot of experience and guidance by experienced craftspeople. This training in particular will be boosted by various digitisation support.
The anticipated objectives of VI-TRAIN are:
• to identify appropriate means of distance learning for the training of craftspeople (manual work),
• to identify appropriate means of online cooperation in training, regarding functionality, GDPR and data security
• to derive success criteria for highly accepted digital solutions
• to develop and test a virtual/3D-crafts training system by using sensors and VR/AR
• to develop and test a virtual/3D-buidling damage identification training system
• to investigate and test options overcoming restrictions, e.g. move sickness,
• to develop a train-the-trainer system for application of selected tools in training of traditional crafts
Contact: coordination@vi-train.eu