Track: Engineering Education

Abstract

The “Virtual E-Learning Community Hub - For Higher Education in the Raw Materials Sector” caters to a central element of the European pillar of social rights, namely to enable high-quality education for all people, and is also in agreement with UNSD Goal 4. In today's transformation society, digitalisation is fast progressing and digital tools recurrently flood the market. A significant number of these tools have been developed for Higher education purposes and were widely used during the Covid-19 period. Digital literacy has increasingly become one of the most important skills in the majority of the world and those who are unable to keep up with the rapid transition into the digital era face the risk of reduced employment opportunities or social exclusion. The hub aims at providing basic training and information to HEI teachers and students to bridge the gap into the digital world, as well as, to serve with an adapted methodological-didactical framework to encourage auto-didactical learning at a high level, with an emphasis on the Raw Materials sector. This virtual hub will help to shift traditional educational paradigms and prepare today the T-shaped engineers needed for tomorrow. The realisation of the VECH is part of a successful research project.