Shock Plan Against the Digital Divide
Duration: 2024
Financing administration: Fons Europeu Next Generation i Pla de Recuperació, Transformació i Resiliencia del Govern d’Espanya. Next Generation Catalunya, Generalitat de Catalunya
Lead Researcher: Dr. Teresa Romeu
Project information: In order to reduce the digital gap, and the currently non-existent trainings, a series of actions are planned aimed at the most disadvantaged groups of citizens and with more possibilities of access to contents and trainings in the field of ICT in in order to provide a foundation in their most basic current digital skills, as well as to encourage and improve any they may have.
To achieve these objectives, it is essential to train the technical staff who will train citizens in the use of ICT, so that they can act as drivers, catalysts and dynamizers against the digital divide, with the territory and for the territory. This task is relevant in that the institutions or entities selected and the trainers will be responsible for facilitating and transmitting this knowledge and training the target audience. This will make it possible to contribute directly towards the goal of achieving a digital society with digitally competent citizens, able to use digital technologies safely for various purposes such as learning, shopping online, obtaining health information and participating in society, being entertainment etc.
It is for these reasons that within this plan there are different specific actions, one of which is particularly crucial is the design, development, implementation, preparation and evaluation of a training proposal intended for the people who will implement the actions to combat the digital gap with citizens.
Participating Edul@b members: Dr. Montse Guitert and Dr. Teresa Romeu
Virtual Reality for the generation of immersive learning scenarios. A critical look at the built environment
Duration: 2024
Financing administration: Fons Europeu Next Generation i Pla de Recuperació, Transformació i Resiliencia del Govern d’Espanya
Lead Researcher: Dr. Monse Guitert
Project information: The project “Virtual reality for the generation of immersive learning scenarios. A critical look at the built environment” is a digital innovation initiative that aims to support educational centers and teachers in the design, development and evaluation of interdisciplinary immersive projects that, taking advantage of virtual reality and network collaboration, contribute to the development of a critical look at the built space, sensitive to people’s needs and committed to the collective aspirations of sustainability and equity.
The aim is to contribute to the digital transformation of educational centers through support in the design, development and evaluation of immersive interdisciplinary projects capable of influencing the organizational culture of the centers and the established conceptions of pedagogical practice. To develop the immersive projects, each school has received digital material, training for its use and support for the generation of immersive 360 tours which, in the end, will be integrated into a digital repository shared with all the centres.
Participating Edul@b members: Dr. Montse Guitert, Dr. Teresa Romeu and Dr. Josep Maria Mominó
Digital empowerment of citizens: Barometer of citizenship digital competence and online teacher’s digital handbook
Duration: 2021
Financing administration: 9.000€
Lead Researcher: Montse Guitert
Amount granted: Ajuntament de Barcelona
Country: Catalonia
Investigadora responsable: Dra. Monse Guitert
Project information: The Barcelona City Council and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) will work on a project that consists, on the one hand, in knowing what the digital skills of citizens are in order to provide an adequate response to their needs and, on the other, in offer teachers guidance and recommendations to be able to become online teachers to act in the current context of pandemic in which we can find ourselves again in a situation of non-presence, where we will have to do everything online, or in a intermittent.
The activities to be carried out in the project are:
- Citizenship digital competence thermometer to know the level of citizenship competence
- Online trainer’s guide / handbook with guidelines, recommendations and resources to be able to apply at many educational levels
Participating Edul@b members: Dr. Teresa Romeu
Conveni de col·laboració entre l’Administració de la Generalitat de Catalunya,mitjançant el Departament de Polítiques Digitals i Administració Pública, i la Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya i la Fundació Blanquerna per al desenvolupament dels nous continguts de l’ACTIC adaptats al marc europeu de competències digitals (DIGComp 2.1) i el sistema d’indicadors d’avaluació.
Financing administration: Generalitat de Catalunya, mitjançant el Departament de Polítiques Digitals i Administració Pública Generalitat de Catalunya País: Catalunya
Period: 2020
Grant Amount: 49.000,00 €
Lead researcher: Dra. Teresa Romeu
Participating Edul@b members: Dra. Montse Guitert
Conveni de col·laboració entre l’Administració de la Generalitat de Catalunya, mitjançant el Departament de Polítiques Digitals i Administració Pública, i la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) i la Fundació Blanquerna per actualitzar l’estructura general de continguts de l’ACTIC
Financing administration: Generalitat de Catalunya, through the Department of Digital Policies and Public Administration.
Period: 2019
Grant Amount: 67.215,50€
Country: Catalonia
Lead researcher: Dra. Teresa Romeu
Participating Edul@b members: Dra. Montse Guitert
Les competències digitals per a la ciutadania
Period: 2018-2019
Grant Amount: 80.000€
Financing administration: Ajuntament de Barcelona
Country: Catalonia
Lead researcher: Dr. Monse Guitert and Dr. Teresa Romeu.
Project Information: The City Council of Barcelona and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) will work on a project to improve the digital competences of citizens, with the aim also of reducing the digital gender divide. The project will be active until the end of 2019 and and will have the participation of the researchers of Edul@b Montse Guitert and Teresa Romeu.
Through Barcelona Activa, the university and the consistory have signed an agreement to digitally empower the population through a program of actions that includes the creation of a map of digital competences that will help people identify their knowledge, skills and attitudes in this area. This map will make it possible to diagnose the level of digital competence of citizens, as well as propose training itineraries adapted to their level of knowledge, interests and needs.