TACTIC
DroughT impACt on the vegeTation of South African semIarid mosaiC landscapes: Implications on grass-crop-lands primary production (ESA-EO Africa-2021-TACTIC)
Semiarid rangelands are one of Africa’s most complex and variable biomes. They are a mosaic of land uses, where extensive livestock is the main economic activity, and agriculture, soil for livelihood, or conservational uses are also crucial. They are highly controlled by the availability of water, e.g., pasture and rainfed crop production. Although the vegetation is adapted to variable climatic conditions and dry periods, the increase in drought intensity, duration, and frequency, changes in agricultural practices, and other socioeconomic and environmental factors precipitate their degradation.
Through the integration of Earth Observation data into models, we can evaluate, on the one hand, the water consumed by semiarid ecosystems and their vegetation water stress and, on the other, its primary production. Thus, allowing us to assess the interaction of both processes, improving our knowledge about the vegetation’s behavior in the face of drought.
TACTIC will map water consumption and primary production of semiarid mosaic crop-rangelands at the optimal spatiotemporal scales, setting up an open-source cloud framework to monitor these processes’ interaction in the long term and analyze system tipping points. This information can help reduce the uncertainty associated with the administration and farmers’ decision-making processes.
Objetivos generales
TACTIC’s main goal is to reinforce the provision of semiarid mosaic ecosystem services supporting decision-making with quantitative, distributed, and quality information. The specific questions are 1) Which are the optimal spatiotemporal scales when monitoring semiarid mosaic vegetation cover, actual ET, and biomass?, 2) What is the evolution of these variables and their anomalies?, 3) What impact drought events have? and 4) the implementation of this monitoring framework as an open-source tool for long term analysis.
papel de la universidad de córdoba
Together with the University of Western Cape, managing and developing Tactic.
datos de contacto
Investigadora principal: Ana Andreu
Email: ana.andreu@uco.es
Web: https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/research/eo-africa-rd-research-projects/
firEUrisk
Forest Fires risk reduction: towards an integrated fire management approach in the E.U. (H2020-LC-CLA-2020-101003890)
FirEUrisk will develop and evaluate a novel 3-stage management strategy that will update the current approaches to fight wildfires. This plan of action is risk-centred and will cover every relevant aspect of this issue while also considering the environmental context and socioeconomic circumstances.
- Fire risk assessment. Analysing the resilience of communities. In this stage, new methods to evaluate fire susceptibility will be proposed. These approaches will take into account the main pillars within this issue: nature and people.
- Fire risk reduction. Addressing the political and economic causes. The strengths and weakness of current fire guidelines and management strategies to offer improved alternatives to tackle the social drivers behind extreme wildfires will be analysed.
- Fire risk adaptation. New conditions, new strategies. Future climate and demographic scenarios will be modelled.
Objetivos generales
FirEUrisk aims to improve wildfires risk assessment in Europe. A science-based strategy will be developed and will include new tools for assessing the danger and vulnerabilities of communities and landscapes, reducing their wildfire risks and adapting them for a resilient future.
Papel de la Universidad de Córdoba
UCO is one of the 38 partners of the Consortium. UCO team is made up of researchers that develop their work in fire economic impact assessment with SEVEIF algorithms and fire danger assessment through the use of the Suppression Difficulty Index. UCO tests the results and validate the new methodologies in its Demonstration Area of Sierra Morena.
DATOS DE CONTACTO
Investigador Principal: Juan Ramón Molina Martínez
Correo electrónico de contacto: jrmolina@uco.es
Página web del proyecto: https://fireurisk.eu/
GreenX4Drug
Green Enantioselective Halogenation for Drug Discovery and Manufacture (H2020-MSCA-RISE-823939)
The aim of this project is to bring together subject matter experts from the academic and non-academic sectors to develop and exemplify the use of new catalysts and new green reactions to manufacture important halogenated compounds that could be used in drug discovery and drug production. In order to achieve this objective the proposal brings together 3 partners with complementary skills:
– University of Naples (UNINA): expertise in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery.
– KelAda Pharmachem: expertise in green chemistry, chemical batch process development and scale-up.
– University of Cordoba (UCO): expertise in process engineering of continuous flow processes.
OBJETIVOS GENERALES
– Objective 1: Development of new, efficient “green” organocatalysts.
– Objective 2: Exemplification of utility these catalysts to create a halogenation platform.
– Objective 3: Synthesis (using halogenation platform) and testing of drug candidates.
– Objective 4: Scale-up of syntheses of key compounds in order to demonstrate industrial viability.
PAPEL DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE CÓRDOBA
The University of Cordoba is in charge of the Work Programme 4: Development of continuous flow variants and scale up.
DATOS DE CONTACTO
Investigador Principal: Rafael Luque Álvarez de Sotomayor
Correo electrónico de contacto: q62alsor@uco.es
Página web del proyecto (enlace CORDIS): https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/823939/es
PCE
Project Culture Européenne (2021-1-FR01-KA220-SCH-000032613)
Universidades, centros de profesorado y centros educativos de Alemania, Lituania, Francia, Eslovenia, Hungría, Bulgaria, Holanda, Irlanda y España se han unido en este proyecto en un intento de definir qué es la cultura europea y utilizar los materiales que se deriven de este proyecto para ser utilizados en Educación Primaria y Secundaria.
OBJETIVOS GENERALES
Definir el ‘concepto de cultura europea’.
Diseñar materiales para la implementación en el aula.
Implementación en Educación Primaria y Secundaria.
PAPEL DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE CÓRDOBA
Participar en la definición del concepto ‘cultura europea’.
Diseñar materiales para la implementación en el aula.
Implementación en el aula de Educación Primaria.
Organizar el evento multiplicador final del proyecto y una reunión transnacional.
Investigadora Principal: M.ª Elena Gómez Parra
e-mail: elena.gomez@uco.es
FROOTS
Fast-tracking ROOTStock breeding in olive (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019-896689)
Adaptation to environmental conditions is key to maximise crop productivity under limited water and other stresses related to climate impacts. Combining stress resistance with desired agronomic characteristics through regular plant breeding in fruit trees such as olive requires a huge amount of time and resources and might not be feasible by just using the current available genetic pool. However, the use of rootstocks could overcome some of these stresses that are challenging tree crops worldwide and allow to unlock the genetic potential of wild relatives of olive. The objective of FROOTS is to speed up the rootstock breeding process in olive trees by developing accurate, fast phenotyping and grafting methodologies for the early selection of new olive rootstocks, in first instance for drought resistance. This will be done by using techniques that are known to the applicant due to his background in plant breeding and disease resistance screening and analysis techniques, in collaboration with the hosting group, which has a strong track record in the study of olive germplasm resources, genetics and breeding, as well as proven ability to train students and scientists. The approach and techniques used in FROOTS will allow a faster development of rootstocks resilient to new challenging environments and pests, therefore reducing the environmental impact and future proofing our olive orchards. The training will allow the applicant to be trained as a fruit tree breeder, increasing the capability in this research area. The project presents a multidisciplinary approach as it brings together plant propagation, germplasm resources, genetics and statistics. It includes secondments at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), opening the possibility for further collaboration between the institutions.
Objetivos generales
The EU-funded FROOTS project will build on the use of rootstocks to develop accurate, fast phenotyping and grafting methodologies for the early selection of new olive rootstocks. The ultimate aim is to speed up the rootstock breeding process in olive trees.
Papel de la Universidad de Córdoba
This project will be carried out in the University of Cordoba, where most of the activities will be conducted under the supervision of Prof. Barranco. The applicant will benefit from considerable local and surrounding expertise regarding drought resistance and plant phenotyping methods, in vitro plant propagation and rootstock-scion mechanisms and compatibility, and olive germplasm resources and breeding. In addition, the University of Cordoba will participate in the training of the applicant and the exploitation and dissemination of the results.
Supervisor: Diego Barranco Navero e-mail:dbarranco@uco.es
Investigador Principal: Carlos Trapero Ramírez e-mail: carlostrapero@uco.es
Página web del proyecto: (en desarrollo)
LIVING SOILS
Sustainable Agriculture and Life (2019-1-TR01-KA202-076825)
Aunque resulta casi imperceptible, cada año se pierden grandes cantidades del suelo destinado a uso agrícola y que resulta imprescindible, no sólo para el sector alimentario, sino también para el textil y el energético y, por supuesto, para el medioambiente. Esta pérdida anual apenas llega a medio centímetro y puede pasar desapercibido para el ojo humano. Sin embargo, cuando se echa la vista atrás se percibe el enorme deterioro que está sufriendo este recurso a lo largo de los años. Esto es debido a que la capacidad de regeneración del suelo está muy lejos de ser suficiente para contrarrestar la erosión y degradación. Actualmente, es tal la descompensación entre el nivel de regeneración y el de pérdida que el suelo está catalogado como un recurso no renovable. Es necesario que pasen decenas o incluso centenares de años para recuperar el suelo que se está perdiendo en un solo año.
En este sentido, el proyecto LIVING SOILS nace con el objetivo de crear una red de cooperación entre distintos países para intercambiar y difundir buenas prácticas en el ámbito de la agricultura, que ayuden a rehabilitar los suelos y reducir su deterioro.
Para ello, se fomenta la Agricultura de Conservación, que comprende una serie de principios para favorecer un uso más eficiente de los recursos naturales y mejorar su conservación, como el no laboreo y la siembra directa sobre rastrojos, el mantenimiento de cubiertas vegetales sobre el suelo para evitar la erosión y la rotación y diversificación de cultivos.
Entre los participantes en el proyecto, se encuentran varias entidades públicas turcas, agencias de desarrollo local y la Universidad de Iconio (Konya) de Turquía, la red de cooperativas italiana Lega Regionale delle Cooperative e Mutue, una entidad alemana orientada a la
formación DEULA-Nienburg GmbH, la Federación Europea de la Agricultura de Conservación (ECAF) con sede en Bélgica y la Universidad de Córdoba, que participa a través del grupo AGR-126 «Mecanización y tecnología rural» que cuenta amplia experiencia y reconocido prestigio en la investigación aplicada de la Agricultura de Conservación en España y Europa.
Alrededor de 50 especialistas intervienen en el proyecto. Entre ellos se intercambiarán experiencias de éxito que hayan tenido lugar en cada uno de los países, tanto en relación con técnicas agrícolas como maquinaria. Además, se realizarán sesiones de formación para profesionales del sector de otros países. Finalmente se pretende que el resultado del proyecto sirva como punto de referencia para que profesionales del sector agrícola conozcan la importancia de implementar estas prácticas en su trabajo y cómo hacerlo.
La mayoría de los países que participan en el proyecto comparten características similares ligadas al sector agrícola. Son países mediterráneos, con climas semiáridos y suelos con bajo contenido en materia orgánica. Además, tanto España como Italia y Turquía tienen intereses comunes a la hora de adaptar la maquinaria de siembra para implementar técnicas agrícolas más respetuosas con el suelo. Requiere una gran inversión y un cambio radical en la forma de trabajar la tierra.
Además de ayudar a proteger el suelo de la erosión, el empleo de restos de cultivos anteriores como coberturas es una buena forma de compensar las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero del sector agrícola. El dióxido de carbono que las plantas transforman en carbohidratos al realizar la fotosíntesis, queda al final almacenado en el suelo en forma de materia orgánica.
Para llegar a las personas que trabajan en el sector agrícola, se mantiene el contacto con cooperativas y asociaciones de agricultores y técnicos, entre ellos muchos jóvenes. Iniciar estos cambios permitirá a largo plazo ahorrar costes y mantener la producción, a la vez que se ayudará a conservar este recurso natural suelo, tan castigado por décadas de agricultura intensiva.
OBJETIVOS GENERALES
El proyecto tiene como objetivo crear una red de cooperación entre países con experiencia demostrada en agricultura sostenible, para intercambiar y difundir buenas prácticas en Agricultura de Conservación, para mejorar las capacidades institucionales de todos los socios a nivel transnacional, para contribuir al desarrollo profesional de la personal técnico y agricultores del sector.
La realización de una producción agrícola con técnicas de Agricultura de Conservación, mejora y preservación de los recursos naturales como suelo, agua, aire, reducción de los impactos de los efectos y causas del cambio climático, desarrollo de conocimientos y habilidades sobre las técnicas de reducción de los riesgos involucrados en las actividades agrícolas, la formación de la conciencia ambiental, la rentabilidad de la producción agrícola y el aumento de la productividad y la garantía de la seguridad alimentaria son los resultados esperados a corto y largo plazo de este proyecto.
PAPEL DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE CÓRDOBA
Dentro de las actividades a realizar, los expertos de otros países visitarán la UCO en dos ocasiones. Una para una reunión técnica de los participantes en el proyecto y otra para recibir un curso de formación práctico sobre Agricultura de Conservación en las instalaciones del Campus de Rabanales. Cabe recordar que España es líder europeo con unos dos millones de hectáreas en cultivos extensivos y leñosos, y que la finca Experimental Rabanales de la Universidad de Córdoba aplica el sistema de conservación en sus cultivos desde hace más de una década.
Los representantes de la UCO participarán en total en 5 Encuentros Transnacionales, 3 Actividades de Aprendizaje, Enseñanza, Formación y en diversas actividades de difusión.
Como resultado final del proyecto se elaborará una publicación donde se recogerán las Buenas Prácticas Agrarias acordadas en el consorcio, para su posterior divulgación entre el sector agrario de cada país participante.
Investigador principal: Emilio J. González Sánchez
E-mail:emilio.gonzalez@uco.es
Página web del proyecto: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100074648813814
DC BOX
DC BOX: Digital Curator Training & Tool Box (2021-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000032253)
New technologies and digital communication are transforming societies, changing lifestyles, consumption patterns and power relationships in economic value chains. In this changing landscape, the role of culture is more important than ever. Over the last decades, the application of digital technologies to the production and management of Cultural Heritage (CH)-related data has progressively been replacing traditional methods of data gathering, organization and management. As well, the digital revolution, still in action, have found its way even for the CH sector. Today, almost all museums and cultural places are accompanied by digital tools. Actions like researching, publishing (on-line), exhibiting, communicating or participating are likely to be supported by digital tools, which improves the works of museums and strengthen the public exchange. Thus, developing digital strategies has become a cross-sectorial task, which is influencing the whole ecosystem around the museum as a standalone entity [1]. The opportunities offered by digital solutions for CH are countless; indeed, they do not only make exhibits and artifacts accessible to a wider spectrum of visitors, but they allow to go beyond the physical constrains. Collections can be brought online, creating new environments for exchange and enable participation. Also, to foster the development of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) [2], CH should be a facilitator for local CCI start-up projects and support small creative entrepreneurship in the area of learning, art galleries and workshops, etc. In this scenario, CCI across Europe are severely affected by the CoVid-19 crisis. Cultural institutions for public use/enjoinment, especially museums, have gone from a total closure to reduced accesses according to social distancing measures. The pandemic had a twofold impact: the impossibility of experiencing the physical dimension of places of CH and the increasing attempts to ‘put online’ not yet structured cultural products and services. Considering the vulnerability but also the potential of Culture in crisis time, the project aims to face CoVid-related challenges by working on the second above-mentioned impact while using the former as a new normality to deal with in the 21st century. Considering this background, it emerges the need to shape, design and professionally encourage the figure of the Digital Curator (DC). This figure represents the turnkey toward a real digital transformation, because them can play an essential role in enabling cultural experiences, knowledge creation, preservation, and use and re-use of cultural heritage across the Europe [3-4 -5] The Digital Curator is an emerging professional profile: its relevance has been emphasised by the prolongation of CoVid-19 pandemic and the consequent need to rely on digital, smart and connected museums. Nevertheless, up to date there’s no single, unanimously agreed reference framework to empower learners with skills, competences and expertise a DC should provide, that is a synthesis of technical knowhow and humanistic background.
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/assets/eac/culture/library/reports/2014-heritage-mapping_en.pdf
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/digitalsingle-market/en/news/european-commission-report-cultural-heritage-digitisation-online-accessibility-and-digital
[3] https://ec.europa.eu/culture/cultural-heritage/cultural-heritage-eu-policies/european-digital-heritage
[4] https://ec.europa.eu/culture/cultural-heritage/cultural-heritage-eu-policies/cultural-heritage-and-education.
[5] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/factual-summary-report-open-public-consultation-digital-culturalheritage
Objetivos generales
The main goal of DCbox is to create a new generation of European professionals working in the cultural heritage sector, equipped with a recognised, cross-cutting and high-level digital skillset. More specifically, the project is aimed at:
a) better defining the professional figure of ‘digital curator’, owning digital, marketing and communication skills to engage a broader and more variegated audience;
b) taking advantage by positive effects of Digital Transformation in CH and tackling negative effects on museums and archaeological sites brought by COVID-19 through the development of highquality digital contents and virtual visits;
c) creating a cross-European network of Universities, Museums and IT enterprises, acting as a workspace for mutual learning, sharing of experiences and active experimentation in the process of cultural heritage digitalisation.
At the same time, the project deals with distance learning tools for higher education, considering that they have demonstrated a lack of digital readiness, or rather, robustness, particularly for laboratorial and work-based activities, as in the case of the design-oriented courses. Given these objectives and the results, obtained by the implementation plan, DCBox also can depict project outcomes and impacts described as follows:
1) Better and diffused awareness among EU and HE cultural institutions about the digital dimension in the museums: their already available skills, successful practices, adequate transformation strategies, their potential to act as promoters of community-based strategies based on heritage.
2) Better training opportunities, enhanced skills and general knowledge for students about the capacity to actually set up, maintain, improve and promote a permanently digital curated, managed and boosted museum.
3) Greater interest and involvement of HE staff in distance or digital learning and didactic activities, which can leverage students’ participation and engagement as a driver to obtain effective tools for hands-on courses (such as design, drawing and all the ideate/practical courses) or work-based learning practices.
4)Reinforcing stable and continuous collaborations between different public research institutions, cultural associations, organizations dealing with services in museums and archaeological heritage in order to promote the training of highly-skilled staff, and to define agreements and strategies about digital transformation in the museums.
Papel de la Universidad de Córdoba
Creation of Learning Modules: Based on a formal/informal education format (e.g. EOR, virtual and real time lessons, virtual collaborative rooms etc.), these modules will be the basis of a career-based learning programs for Digital Curator professionals (DCH curricula). In particular, the learning modules give to the students the theoretical background in order to complement their already available skills. This output constitutes the basis on which the following VIRTUAL LABs (PR4) are established. PR2 objective is the development of a free and open online course (videos and PowerPoint files) containing researched and innovative educational material regarding the nowledge/skills/competencies identified in the previous project result (DEL 1.1; 1.2). The on-line course will have a general path (which can be followed by any kind of profile) which will present the application of sustainable strategies for CH and general digital notions in which they lack knowledge/skills/competencies, independently of their starting level. It will be followed by 4 specific sub-paths related to the 5 LABs chosen by the partnership (referto PR4). Lastly, the categorization of the produced and researched materials will permit to the interested learners (among various MD students, as well as teachers and associated museums staff) to better understand the level of the competencies at which they are and that they can acquire, identifying existing gaps of knowledge and expertise. Both learners and trainers will benefit from this output, since learner will have the opportunity to increase their competences, while trainer and teachers will manage and test an innovative material to train their learners. Learning modules themes:
• ADVANCED 3D DIGITIZATION
•High resolution (4K) images production
• DIGITAL DATA PRESERVATION – POLICY RULES AND LYCENSING
•DIGITAL ACCESS (UNIVERSAL DESIGN – virtual experiences)
•AI in Cultural Heritage domain
• Tracking of user experiences for virtual/digital museums…
• Communication and marketing strategies in CH
• Storytelling for restoration/conservation project (preconditions, principles, strategies, results)
Investigador principal:Antonio Monterroso Checa
E-mail:amonterroso@uco.es
E-DUCATION
E-DUCATION: TEACHING AND LEARNING AFTER 2020 (2020-1-ES01-KA226-SCH-095541)
The E-DUCATION: TEACHING AND LEARNING AFTER 2020 project proposes three lines of work that are based on active online methodologies, evaluation in non-presence systems and the coordination of the educational community in the attention to students, especially those who are at a disadvantage due to the digital gap. Therefore, the project focuses on clearly identified needs of our main target group: school education teachers. This group has had to transit drastically from face-to-face to online education. In a very short period of time, they have had to adapt their methodologies in the classroom to digital communication with students and families, and they have faced a multitude of difficulties at very different levels.
Objetivos generales
- To provide school teachers and guidance teams with fundamental tools in three aspects: active methodologies for online teaching, adequate assessment instruments to adapt to digital environments, and coordination tools to avoid the risks of digital gap and student disconnection.
- To provide management teams with reliable guides for the implementation of transition strategies and evaluation of online teaching, and to ensure that the centers can guarantee the educational quality they need.
- To offer students, families and socio-educational agents a communication and rapid intervention tool in order to detect and support risk cases in collaboration with teachers, management teams and socio-educational authorities.
Papel de la Universidad de Córdoba
This project is a great opportunity for all the lectures in the UCO team, as it can offer an international view of the need for the digitalization of teaching, exchange of experiences, and the possibility of enriching our career as researchers and teachers. Our role in the project will be to participate in the creation of the different intellectual products with tasks ranging from the design of questionnaires and interviews to gathering from teachers of different countries information about their experience in the use of digital tools, the collection and selection of good practices in the field of digital teaching and the production and organization of dissemination outputs and activities.
Investigador principal: Víctor Manuel Pavón Vázquez
E-mail: victor.pavon@uco.es
Página web del proyecto: : https://educationdigitalproject.org
LIFE AGROMITIGA
Development of climate change mitigation strategies through carbon-smart agriculture (LIFE17-CCM/ES/000140)
LIFE AGROMITIGA will promote a low-carbon agricultural system, providing validated results applicable to EU commitments on climate global alliances. LIFE AGROMITIGA aims to decouple CO2 emissions regarding the use of raw materials and natural resources, through Conservation Agriculture. The project will highlight techniques that promote circular agrarian economy respectful to the environment, improver of natural capital and ecosystem services.
LIFE AGROMITIGA is based on the development of tools and actions that enhance mitigative capacity of soil as a carbon (C) sink. Through the development and adaptation of a validated methodology in the project, the impact of different agricultural practices will be assessed and mitigative capacity of soil management systems in the Mediterranean Basin will be quantified, in herbaceous and perennial crops. The main project implementation area will be the region of Andalusia, contemplating the extension to the Mediterranean Basin (GR, IT, PT).
This project will provide knowledge applicable to international programs about C credits, integrated in programs about reduction of GHG emissions, and data which will contribute to LULUCF accounting. The results will be applied to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the 4×1000 Strategy and the Common Agricultural Policy. Furthermore, LIFE AGROMITIGA is aligned with the COM (2016) 500 final “Accelerating Europe’s transition to a low-carbon economy”.
Objetivos generales
The project has the following objectives, which once reached, will be long lasting:
- To improve the state of knowledge about the contents of C in agricultural soil.
- To design and implement a method to calculate C footprint in the cultivation stage of crops, eligible for international verification standards and C footprint calculation.
- To develop a technological tool to evaluate and quantify the increase of C in soils due to better soil management practices, as a basis for the development and monitoring of policies linked to climate change and emissions trading.
- To demonstrate the ability of Conservation Agriculture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Mediterranean Basin.
- To encourage the development of soil management systems that mitigate climate change, through training and raising awareness of stakeholders linked to agriculture.
- To spread and transfer the experience and the soil management philosophy to similar Mediterranean areas.
Papel de la Universidad de Córdoba
As an action coordinator:
Action C.1: Implementation of best management practices and application of the methodology on a pilot scale (at Rabanales reference farm).
Action D.4: Monitoring the use of resources: greenhousegas emissions emissions in the network of demonstration farms at a regional scale.
As an action participant with other partners of the project:
Action A.1: Identification and definition of best management practices for mitigating climate change, and indicators for their evaluation and monitoring.
Action A.3: Selection of farms at regional level and signing of agreements with farmers.
Action D.7: Monitoring of the LIFE program indicators.
Action E.1: Communication and dissemination.
Action E.3: Transfer of technology activities at the national level.
Action F.1: Project coordination.
Investigador principal: Gregorio Blanco Roldán
E-mail: ir3blrog@uco.es
Co – investigador principal: Emilio J. González Sánchez
E-mail: emilio.gonzalez@uco.es
Página web del proyecto: https://lifeagromitiga.eu/?lang=es
VRAILEXIA
Partnering Outside the Box: Digital and Artificial Intelligence Integrated Tools to Support Higher Education Students with Dyslexia (2020-1-IT02-KA203-080006)
It is well known as students with dyslexia encounter several difficulties during their university career, leading to a greater rate of drops out with respect other kinds of students.
Nowadays, tools for dyslexic students are mainly focused on primary and secondary school; conversely no standard methodologies are proposed for Higher Education. Starting from the attitude to visual thinking and creativity of dyslexics and their evidence neurodiversity, VRAILEXIA will develop learning tools and services for University dyslexic students to assure equal access and opportunity of success during their academic career and their lifelong learning experience.
VRAILEXIA through the use of virtual reality and artificial intelligence will implement an e-learning adaptive digital platform (BESPECIAL) for supporting students with dyslexia. As a long-term objective VRAILEXIA will propose a sustainable pattern for HEIs that creates the possibility for everyone to use his/her own strengths counteracting his/her weakness.
Moreover, VRAILEXIA wishes to emerge the mastery of thinking out of the box: exploiting the ability to explore creative and unusual ideas that are not limited or controlled by rules or tradition.
Objetivos generales
VRAILEXIA general objective is based on the motto “Dyslexic think differently: it’s time to change in perception and act in network. Through this objective, VRAILEXIA aims at developing useful contents, both services and tools, to overlap dyslexic’s main difficulties during learning process in HE. The perspective is to let that Universities can develop strategies for inclusion for fostering all students to discover and point on one’s strengths and values. From this reason, it is clear how the potentiality of the project has to be carried out according to a transnational approach in order to obtain common and shared services and tools. Among these services and tools, VRAILEXIA will lead to the realization of: (i) digital platform for supporting dyslexic students based on AI; (II) VR tests for dyslexia profile assessment and platform use effects on physiological aspects; (iii) online tools repository for teaching and learning; (iv) training path for trainers to increase the dyslexia awareness; and, (v) memorandum of understanding for MoU for clustering the actors/stakeholders to assess a European Network to foster common strategies of inclusion within HE. An important objective of the project is to strengthen the relations between the trainings institutions, project members, and the professionals. Each partner is expected to work in close relation with professionals for the implementation of tool and trainings, the aim being that these relations do not end with the project but the creation of Network is the starting point of future plans.
Papel de la Universidad de Córdoba
UCO taking advantages from the skills in development of virtual reality scenarios, will cooperate both with psychologists from UNIPG and experts in Artificial Intelligence coming from the two Universities of France. It is the Leader of WP1: “IN THE BOX – VR Tests for dyslexia assessment through virtual reality”. This WP aims at creating specific assessment tests in VR and to simulate the point of view of dyslexic students to their teachers.
Investigador principal: G. Calabrò || Sara Pinzi (UCO)
E-mail: Giuseppe.calabro@unitus.it || sara.pinzi@uco.es
Página web del proyecto: https://vrailexia.eu/
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