Aims and Objectives
Design, create and maintain a sustainable on-demand education platform, mobilising the EdTech and XR community from the EU, providing a central access point to existing solutions and contributing to a leading position for Europe in cutting-edge while ensuring the European values of privacy, ethics, and inclusiveness.
XR4ED will pursue its implementation through a set of SMART objectives split into three main categories:
- Scientific & Innovation Objectives (SO)
- SO1: Enhancing XR technologies for education
- Technological Objectives (TO)
- TO1: To implement an innovative sustainable on-demand education platform, mobilising the EdTech and XR EU community
- TO2: Formulating privacy and ethics standards for the XR EU community
- Business objectives (BO)
- BO1: To boost the use of the platform by reaching out to potential user groups
- BO2: To deliver a pan-European multi-sided platform for education, training, and learning, validated through tendering and a set of representative long-lasting demonstrations
- BO3: Delivering a sustainable ever-growing ecosystem of collaborating organisations in diverse domains, fully utilising the XR4ED platform and renovating XR in education-related sectors
Methodology
Marketplace
Financial Support for Third-Party Projects via Open Calls
XR4ED will support start-ups, SMEs and industry active in the sector of education with Cascade funding. Two types of calls will be announced comprising 10 projects (up to 230K) each in six thematic pillars
- Virtual Field Trips
- Content Creation and Exploitation
- Awareness for climate change and biodiversity challenges
- Training of Young Professionals
- Distance and Blended learning
- Accessibility and Inclusion
More information can be found at the official website: https://xr4ed.eu/