Concept of VTECH

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Project No: 610281-EPP-1-2019-1-AL-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Project duration: November 2019 - November 2022

VTECH is an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project led by 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 Balkan countries.

Project specific objectives: 

• Capacity building of academic staff to incorporate Virtual Technologies in teaching; 
• Develop teaching methodologies availing of technology and/or ICT tools; 
• Equip students with competencies to use/access tools, software and platforms; 
• Increase interaction between teachers and students; 
• Increase the level of understanding and reduce the grasping time and the effort that students need to learn information by using 3D concepts instead of 2D ones; 
• Offer a better delivery of basic knowledge even for complex issues, higher learning efficiency and better learning experience by AR/VR techniques; 
• Establish Virtual Technology HUB for developing teaching materials for basic learning courses and serve as a HUB for other HEIs; 
• Foster cooperation between academy and industry by organizing open days, joint product developments, thesis supervision etc.; 
• Develop capacities for future joint research and innovative ideas with the support of Virtual Technologies. 

Project Outcomes: 

• +10 academic staff from each university will be trained to develop and use VT in their daily university work. 
• Administrative staff at each HEI will be trained to support VT teaching at their universities; 
• VT supported courses will be introduced at partner HEIs equipping students with transferable skills in innovative and critical thinking; 
• Creative spaces and VT labs will be established at each partner HEI and will be open to other HEIs in region, contributing this way in the regional higher education capacity building; 
• Joint academy - industry thesis supervision, open days and round tables with industry will be organized as effective tools in establishing and strengthening the links among students, alumni, industry and academia and producing sustainable future networks that will contribute effectively to objectives of both Higher Education sector and industry in partner countries.

VTech Project 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. 

• Aleksandër Moisiu University of Durrës
• European University of Tirana 
• Polis University
• Epoka University
• University of Prishtina
• University for Business and Technology
• South East European University 
• Mother Teresa University
• University of Ljubljana 
• University of Tartu
• Lodz University of Technology