The bootcamp for the Erasmus + OPENUS4ALL project took place between 27 and 29 November’24 at the Fábrica, Centro de Ciência Viva in Aveiro, with the participation of CIDTFF members, Fábrica members, teachers from Alicante and teachers from Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Mário Sacramento and 2 DEP trainee students.
On November 27, in the morning, the programme involved interventions by various members of the CIDTFF and/or DEP, Teresa Neto, Cecília Guerra, Vanda Santos and Joaquim Pinto, exploring aspects relating to the conceptualisation of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) approach and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The afternoon was dedicated to exploring the concept of Open School by Lúcia Pombo and Margarida M. Marques, who presented the EduCITY project as an example, where participants had the opportunity to explore two demo games, which integrate various types of augmented reality, and got hands-on with the platform, experimenting with creating games for the city of Alicante
After experimenting with the EduCITY app and platform, the bootcamp participants pointed out that these are open, digital-based tools that they recognise as useful in the context of the Erasmus+ project. It was therefore proposed to use the EduCITY app and platform to develop mobile games with augmented reality in each of the partner countries – Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey – games that will become the final products of the STEAM projects promoted by OPENUS4ALL, promoting coordination between the two projects.
The morning of 28 November was dedicated to a guided tour oto Fábrica and a presentation of the OPENUS4ALL methodology and platform by the project coordinator, Maria Del Carmen Perea Marco from the Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche (Spain). In the afternoon there were workshops on ábrica team and was dedicated to the problem of plastics in the context of environmental sustainability. In this context, three STEAM Education workshops were organised, where methodologies and prototypes were developed to address this issue.
