The University of Aveiro (UA) will participate in the project “VRChem: Innovative Integration of Virtual Reality in Chemical Engineering Education”, from 2024 to 2027, which is financed by the Polish National Agency of the Erasmus+ Program, within the scope of Action 2 of the Cooperation Partnerships, and coordinated by the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology of the Krakow Technological University, in Poland.

The VRChem project aims to respond to the needs of contemporary education, by stimulating innovative learning and teaching practices, as well as supporting the digital and sustainable transformation of higher education. In this context, Virtual Reality (VR) technology has a significant potential as a tool that students and members of the academic community can use to simulate equipment and processes.

Mário Vairinhos e Rui Raposo, DigiMedia Researchers, and Vera Silva (from the Department of Chemistry and Associated Lab LAQV) are the UA team, part of an international consortium of 5 universities:

• Krakow Technological University (Poland) – Coordination;

• Technological University de Lodz (Poland);

• University of Aveiro (Portugal);

• Polytechnic of Milan (Italy);

• University of Cadiz (Spain).

The UA team, at Digimedia’s XR laboratory, in partnership with the VOXEL Research Lab at the Technical University of Lodz, will be responsible for the creation of the functionalities of the VR platform that will be made available, on an open basis, so anyone can freely explore the materials.

Find out more about this project here.