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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.

From 17.09.2024 – 19.09.2024, all project partners met in Rijeka (Croatia) for the second transnational partner meeting (TPM) in the course of the project. The meeting was perfectly prepared and conducted by our Croatian partners from the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Civil Engineering. In addition to various administrative tasks, the results of the surveys … Read more

Gregorio from the Spanish project partner “Skills Divers” has analyzed the state of the art of XR in construction education. The following document summarizes the main objectives, content and conclusions of 17 scientific papersfrom 2016 to 2024 that focus on the use of XR in the construction industry and related educational fields (civil engineering, architecture, … Read more

After the national curricula analysis, a survey, which is available in English as well as in all partner languages, was created by PP5 (University of Rijeka) and sent out by all project partners in their respective country. The aim of this survey, which was sent out to students, teachers and companies in the construction industry, … Read more

Exploring Innovative Sustainability Practices at the Conference “CIRCULARITY IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR”! We have been part of an inspiring event on sustainable construction and circular economy, with thought-provoking discussions and networking opportunities! Antonio Trigueros (CTCON) set the stage by outlining the event goals, followed by key contributions from: Silvia Pérez (CETENMA) on the Circular Economy … Read more

From 25.03.2024 – 27.03.2024 all project partners from Finland, Austria, Spain and Croatia came together at the invitation of the project coordinator in cold Liepaja (Latvia) for the kick-off meeting of the project. In addition to the two-day project meeting, in which various project-related matters such as project management, the joint curriculum, the XR toolkit, … Read more