The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly (DECE), and specifically the Creative Technologies Learning Lab research group, participated in the organization of a summer school on materials engineering addressed to higher education students and held at the Technical University of Lodz in Poland. The summer school took place on July 9 – 16, 2023. It was attended by 12 students and 8 mentors from European universities.
The summer school offered rich activities to participants through 10 laboratory sessions. The activities of the summer school were facilitated by digital learning services designed and developed by the Creative Technologies Learning Lab research team for the benefit of students and faculty. The digital services enhanced the interactivity of learning contributing to collaboration, learning activity structuring, learning delivery, and access to digital learning content. The summer school as well as the digital learning services were implemented in the framework of the research project DigiMat: Excellence for Digital Education in Materials Engineering funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission. Apart from the University of Thessaly, higher education institutions from Poland, Estonia, and the Czech Republic participate in the research project.