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Let’s mimic aims to integrate biomimicry into Vocational Education and Training (VET) programs to enhance sustainability, innovation, and practical skills among students. Biomimicry, the practice of emulating nature’s time-tested strategies and patterns to solve human challenges, offers a unique and effective approach to vocational training. By incorporating biomimicry into VET curricula, Let’s mimic fosters a new generation of skilled professionals adept at creating sustainable solutions and innovative designs inspired by nature. The project ensures that VET programs are sustainable and relevant, supporting young people to develop green and environmental skills linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project analyses the skills and competences need for adopting biomimicry practices in VET. Students engage in biomimicry design through problem-based learning approaches supported by a digital learning platform designed on biomimicry…

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly (DECE), specifically the Creative Technologies Learning Lab (http://ctll.e-ce.uth.gr ) research group, organised educational activities to design innovative solutions that apply digital technology to sustainability. The action took place in DECE's computer laboratory. Approximately 20 students of IEK Dimitra, accompanied by their teachers, attended the event under the supervision of Volos Branch Coordinator Mr. Dimitris Tsoustoulakis see more

A multiplier event was organised on January 29, 2025 for project eDea, which develops digital solutions for fostering innovation. The event was attended by 21 students and their teachers from the school, who used the eDea digital platform to generate innovative ideas for sustainability see more

An event on game design for nature-based solutions and environmental sustainability was organised on January 16, 2025. The event was attended by 25 students from the Experimental High School of Volos in the context of project BuildAsNature see more

The Creative Technologies Learning Lab research group organised a multiplier event for project eDea, which develops digital services for promoting innovation. The event was attended by 30 students of the Gymnasium of Iolkos that used eDea solutions to generate sustainability solutions see more

We are pleased to announce that our Erasmus+ project NATURE: Serious Games for Responsible Natural Resources Management has been awarded the ERASMUS + “Wings” Quality Award by the State Agency for Educational Development (VIAA). This is a quality award of the EU program for education, training, youth and sport Erasmus+, which is awarded for the development of high-quality projects and the implementation of sustainable projects see more

Project LET’s MIMIC was presented in an online workshop titled Modelling Critical Thinking and Trust in the AI Era. The workshop took place on November 28, 2024. It presented a good opportunity to introduce project objectives, activities, and results to a European audience with direct interest in innovative, digitally-enhanced learning design for wide purposes and for sustainability in particular see more

CTLL participated in training organised in Aarhus, Denmark for project cTour, which develops learning content for circular practices in small scale tourism. Two students from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly attended the event, which was organised on October 15-17, 2024 see more

CTLL organised a multiplier event for promoting the dissemination and uptake of outcomes of project eDea, which aims at building innovation skills through design thinking. The event was attended by 50 students and their teachers from the Public Vocational School of Volos (SAEK), who visited the computer lab of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly see more

CTLL organised a multiplier event for promoting the dissemination and uptake of outcomes of project eDea, which aims at building innovation skills through design thinking. The event was attended by 22 students and their teachers from the 3rd Gymnasium Nea Ionia, Volos, who visited the computer lab of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly see more