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UPRAISE
UPRAISE builds Europe's talent for the Virtual Worlds economy, joining advanced digital skills with sustainability, ethics and entrepreneurship.
The challenge, and what the project does about it
Virtual Worlds technologies such as extended reality, AI, digital twins and the Internet of Things are reshaping manufacturing, energy, healthcare, education and the creative industries. Europe is short of people who combine deep technical skills with the creative, ethical and business judgement to apply them.
UPRAISE brings together 26 universities, companies, innovation hubs and training organisations from 11 countries to redesign degree programmes and create modular, micro-credentialed training. The partners also upgrade labs, build an AI-supported platform for personalised study plans, and set up a stakeholder network meant to last beyond the project.
What the project sets out to achieve
- Redesign or create at least 71 university courses and degree programmes in the key technologies behind Virtual Worlds.
- Offer modular, micro-credentialed training for educators, professionals and young people.
- Attract qualified teaching staff and diverse students through exchanges, mentoring and scholarships.
- Upgrade labs and build an AI-supported platform for personalised study plans and shared digital content.
- Set up a lasting stakeholder network for Virtual Worlds skills.
What Think Loom brings to the consortium
WP4: Curriculum and training design | Bulgarian input to the skills observatory, and design of a modular training on AI for educators.
WP5-6: Programme delivery | Delivery and evaluation of the modular training.
WP7-8: Digital infrastructure | Learning content for the shared repository and the personalised study-plan platform.
WP9-11: Outreach and sustainability | Communication in Bulgaria, and work on the skills observatory and micro-credential recognition services.
What the project has produced
Workshops that train vocational teachers to use the module in their own lessons.
Open the result ↗A free interactive module in German, Greek, Bulgarian and English, published as an open educational resource. Led by Think Loom.
Open the result ↗Good-practice recommendations for including learners with ADHD, agreed with partner schools.
Open the result ↗Country profiles and a comparison of how Germany, Greece and Bulgaria support vocational teachers today.
Open the result ↗A lasting network of universities, companies and policymakers for Virtual Worlds skills.
Open the result ↗An AI-supported platform that builds personalised study plans and shares digital learning content.
Open the result ↗Think Loom's modular training for educators within the UPRAISE programme.
Open the result ↗A free digital platform for vocational training across the agri-food value chain.
Open the result ↗Free, ready-to-use training materials for agricultural VET teachers and learners, published once finalised.
Open the result ↗A competence catalogue that adds digitalisation, robotics and sustainability to the profile of farmers and livestock farmers.
Open the result ↗What partners and participants say
The consortium
Where the project is now
Oct 2025: Kick-off in Bologna (past)
May 2026: Partner meeting at Aalto University, Espoo (past)
Nov 2026: Year two under way (now)
Mar 2027: First UPRAISE programmes completed (next)
Sep 2029: Project end (next)
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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