🎯 Project Goals & Anticipated Impact

This Erasmus+ project sets out to spark true technological advancement in vocational education. By incorporating AR (Augmented Reality)–based welding simulators and digital learning methods, teaching becomes more efficient, engaging, and sustainable.

📌 Objectives to be achieved:

• 👨‍🏫 Training of 18 teachers and 👨‍🎓 22 students

• 🧭 Development of two training programmes for students:

  • a 5-day foundational course

  • Erasmus+ mobility programmes (2 and 4-week formats)

• 🧠 Hosting three international seminars with over 90 participants across three countries, including key institutions such as MEN, Welding Institute, SIMP, KO, and their counterparts in Hungary and Italy

🔬 Why is AR technology beneficial?

• ⚡ Enables step-by-step analysis of the welding process — boosting teaching efficiency

• 🏫 Allows hands-on instruction without dedicated workshop spaces, covering up to 40% of practical education needs

• 📈 Introduces AR simulators that increase education quality and speed by 30–50%, thanks to innovation in vocational training

👩‍🏫 Outcomes for teachers:

• 🧪 Hands-on experience with AR welding simulation technology and its educational potential

• 🌿 Insights into the simulator’s environmental, economic, and safety benefits, and its application in both theoretical and practical training

• 🎓 Skill development in selecting, configuring, and integrating simulators to maximize learning outcomes

👨‍🎓 Outcomes for students:

• 🚀 Use of AR welding simulators as an entry point to real-world welding environments

• 🔧 Knowledge of welding fundamentals, safety protocols, and techniques for joints and positions in MIG/MAG, MMA and TIG methods

• 💪 Strengthening of manual skills through “muscle memory”, while reducing early-stage anxiety via gamified learning

• 🤖 Acquisition of skills relevant to robotic and collaborative welding systems (COBOTs) — preparing for Industry 4.0

🌱 Sustainability and Digital Learning Benefits:

• 📉 Reduced material usage, lower energy consumption, and minimal emissions

• 🔈 Improved working conditions (e.g., less noise)

• 📊 Digital performance tracking, making progress easy to monitor and assess

🧭 Looking ahead:

Project partner organizations will develop professional internship programmes (2-week and 1-month formats) under the Erasmus+ framework to support long-term skill development and mobility.

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