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From February 19 to 21, Liepāja State Technical school participated in the education fair “Skola 2026” held at the International Exhibition Centre in Ķīpsala, attracting thousands of young people from across Latvia. During the three days, visitors to the school’s stand had the opportunity to meet representatives of the management, teachers, and students, explore the … Read more

Here you can download the third project newsletter with some insights into the recent months of the project.

On December 11, our project coordinator Latvian State Technical School actively represented vocational education in Latvia at the Erasmus+ annual closing event “From Experience to Values: Erasmus+ International Cooperation” organized by the State Education Development Agency in Riga. LSTS representative and project coordinator Kate Jēkabsone shared her experience of the cooperation partnership project “Extended Reality … Read more

Liepāja State Technical School is developing a learning tool for construction students and teachers that is unique in the Baltic States – an app for interactive learning. Using virtual reality glasses, it will be possible to immerse oneself in a construction site environment and perform various tasks. The process of preparing this innovative teaching material … Read more

On October 24, Agris Ruperts, Director of Liepaja State Technical College, signed a cooperation agreement with Ojārs Jaksts, Chairman of the Board of SIA “Dzelzsbetons MB,” and Artūrs Lukašenoks, Member of the Board.The aim of the cooperation is to strengthen the link between education and the working environment, promoting the training of young specialists in … Read more

Liepāja State Technical School is developing innovative teaching materials for future construction industry specialists, the college’s communications specialist Maija Lakstīgala told the LETA news agency. The school, in collaboration with the development platform “YOU+” and SIA “UPTK”, continues to implement the Erasmus+ project “Extended Reality for Green Skills Training in the Construction Industry,” which aims … Read more

On October 13, 2025, project coordinator Kate Jēkabsone, together with representatives of the YOU+ development platform, participated in the technology inspiration conference “IT Day in Liepāja 2025” where visitors had the opportunity to get acquainted with the upcoming XR teaching materials. During the event, both students and other interested parties were able to test XR … Read more

On September 29 one of the most important project activities took place –filming at a construction site to develop training materials for virtual reality (XR) glasses. The filming took place in a real environment – a construction site – so that the material obtained can then be converted into an XR environment where students can … Read more

Our Spanish project partner Gregorio from Skills Divers presented our paper ‘XRGREEN.CON: ENHANCING GREEN SKILLS IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR THROUGH EXTENDED REALITY’ at this year’s edition of the EDULEARN conference. EDULEARN25 is the 17th annual international conference on education and new learning technologies which took place from 30 June to 2 July 2025 in Palma, … Read more

Here you can download the second project newsletter with some insights into the recent months of the project.

Our Partner Skills Divers was proud to host the 3rd Consortium Meeting of the project, which took place in beautiful Cartagena in March 2025.Over two inspiring days, project partners gathered to brainstorm new XR-based training exercises, discuss progress, and shape the future of green upskilling in construction.Highlights included: A big thank you to all the … Read more

As part of our third partner meeting in Cartagena on 25/03/2025, we had the opportunity to visit the Centro Tecnológico de la Construcción (CTCON) for an interesting afternoon of brainstorming on how Extended Reality (XR) is revolutionising training in circular economy and sustainable construction. During the visit we shared: Many thanks again to CTCON for … Read more

On 20 February 2025, our Croatian project partners Assoc. Prof. Dr. Neira Torić Malić and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Silvija Mrakovčić from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Rijeka (UNIRI) presented our project at the E-Learning Day 2025 at the University of Rijeka.

During the meeting, the discussion focused not only on the learning content and topics that could potentially be introduced in the new learning tool, but also on how XR could improve learning, what are the advantages and disadvantages of XR technology compared to traditional teaching/learning/training methods and how XR could be used in practical education/theoretical … Read more

Here you can download the first project newsletter with some insights into the first months of the project.