RE-OPEN

European HEIs have to cope with the Digital transformation and the challenges created by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many universities have suddenly moved their lessons online leaving aside other activities usually performed in presence, such as laboratories. Practical experiences are crucial for STEM and engineering subjects for the students’ further employability and to acquire pivotal technical and social skills, and experimental skills. Virtual labs and simulations allow to mimic the lab setting but, for how realistic they are, they cannot include every real situation.

Remote labs could be a solution allowing students to access remotely to the physical labs to perform practical experiences. The project objective is to design, test and validate an innovative standard educational model and ICT solution for the Augmented Reality-AR remote labs setting up on renewable energies topics in EU universities. The project main tangible results are:

1.Report on best practices and standard model for remote labs setting up in EU universities (IO1) designed based on the mapping of both remote and physical labs on renewable
energy at EU partners universities;

2.ICT system for the connection at distance of the physical laboratories (IO2) with the support of the Augmented Reality (AR) technique. The system includes a LMS platform
(SCORM) (IO4) as users’ interface to host the experimentation projects, collect and analyse the experiment data and students’ reporting/self-assessment results;

3.remote experimentation modules/projects on renewable energy topic for the performing of remote practical activities (IO3);
4.testing and validation report on remote Laboratories setting up in EU partners universities (IO5).