Subsidies for the development of actions for the training and retraining of the active population, linked primarily to professional qualifications in strategic sectors and improvement of skills for the ecological transition, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, and it is agreed to process them as a matter of urgency.
The Fundación Canaria Living Lab para la Investigación (FCLL) is a private, non-profit institution, recently created, which, although based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has the vocation to provide services throughout the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands.
The FCLL’s aim is to promote and support top quality research, contributing to the general benefit of society and improving the competitiveness of the Canarian economy, by generating technological knowledge, carrying out R&D&I activities, developing and managing spaces for data generation and live experimentation (living labs and hotel labs) and promoting their application to the business fabric with a public-private collaboration model. The Foundation’s main objective is therefore fundamental research, industrial research or experimental development and to widely disseminate the results of these activities through teaching, training, publication or knowledge transfer; the generation of data and knowledge, acting as an element of development and innovation, with special emphasis on disruptive technologies (thinking about the future), enabling (thinking about people) and sustainable (thinking about the planet), which clearly connects the requested project with the profile of the organisation.
Consumption patterns and the digital revolution are contributing directly to companies, which are facing critical transformations on a regular basis. This directly affects their strategic orientation towards the market and their exchange relationships with consumers.
The main objective of this training action is to train and educate Canarian society in digital transformation by studying the most up-to-date technologies in these verticals.
The Fundación Canaria Living Lab para la Investigación (FCLL) is a private, non-profit institution, recently created, based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, whose general objective is to offer twelve training programmes aimed at the general public with a desire to improve and develop professionally and in the workplace, people actively seeking employment and mainly professionals considered to be particularly vulnerable groups, such as those under 30 and over 45 years of age.
All the workshops will be given in a mixed way: face-to-face and tele-training in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife, and will have a duration of 60 hours.
The main intention of these training actions is to provide participants with the necessary tools for specialisation in fields related to emerging and cutting-edge technologies. In order to be competitive, it is essential to have up-to-date knowledge and skills that are of great value in the chosen professional sector, in this case the technology sector, in order to improve not only the professionalism of the worker but also his or her entrepreneurial skills. Creative and innovative skills are essential for students, which are essential when it comes to providing new and more efficient solutions to problems and challenges already known within the sector, their organisations and their particular contexts. These workshops offer the necessary tools and knowledge to specialise in the new trends originating from the metaverse, from the acquisition and understanding of theoretical knowledge to the creation of avatars and hyper-realistic environments, as well as the implementation of interactive functionalities between them.
According to the European Commission’s Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) report, Spain is the most digitised large country among the EU Member States. One of the key factors in achieving this position is the integration of digital technologies, which is a great improvement compared to the previous period (2021 report). However, the level of mastery of these technologies is basic. This is why training programmes are needed in digital skills, more specifically in advanced technologies, where there is a gap.
Thus, the training programmes presented in this report aim to train and certify the population of the Canary Islands in advanced information technologies, with the aim of:
- To provide students with knowledge in the area of new advanced information technology.
- Training in skills in demand in the labour market, which are adapted to the most current needs of companies.
- Officially certifying students, helping them to complete their CV.
- Facilitate access to new job opportunities in a more technological environment, improving employability, especially for particularly vulnerable groups.
- To improve the professional training and personal development of students.
- Contribute to the improvement of companies in terms of productivity and competitiveness.
The general objective of this project is to provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge of advanced technologies and their application in the technology sector: in improving competitiveness and/or entrepreneurship and in solving problems in the sector.
The specific objectives are as follows:
- Possess and understand knowledge of concepts, scope and opportunities of the most advanced technologies, which provide a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, in a context of specialisation in the profession.
- Know how to communicate findings, as well as the knowledge and rationale behind them, to specialised and non-specialised audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
- Possess the learning skills that enable them to continue studying in a largely self-directed or autonomous manner.
- Develop creative and innovative capacity, focused on providing new solutions to old problems of the sector, its organisations and contexts.
a) Unreal Course.
The main objective of the training actions described above is to introduce students to the visual programming world of Unreal Engine 5. This graphic engine presents native tools that greatly facilitate the understanding of originally complex programming concepts, thus allowing the creation of audiovisual projects in a simpler and more intuitive way than the more classical programming counterparts. This, in turn, will have an impact on the ease of learning for students and on the application of knowledge in potential companies interested in creating new products related to cutting-edge interactive audiovisual content.
Objectives:
- Acquire basic programming skills
- To be able to create programs and/or scripts in a visual and intuitive way
- Understand how data structures work and the relationships between elements of data structures
- Acquire knowledge of the relationship between events at the programmatic level and data structures
- Be able to create complex interactive mechanics through visual programming, allowing avatar interactions with the environment and with other avatars
Professional achievements:
- Design the software component, to ensure its development according to the specifications received.
- Develop the software component for integration into a defined architecture, according to the design and specifications received.
- Carry out the deployment and implementation of the components developed for their integration into the system, according to the technical specifications of the architecture.
- Develop software components that implement operating system management tools and services, using system programming languages, to support administrative tasks according to given functional needs.
- Coding of system library functions for use in the development of software components and optimisation of developments according to technical and functional specifications.
- Develop software components using system programming languages, according to established specifications to operate hardware devices.
- Develop software components that implement communications services, to link different systems according to development standards.
b) Metahuman Avatars and Metaverse Course.
These training actions have been created with the aim of introducing students to new trends in the creation of photorealistic quality metaverses using state-of-the-art technologies. These metaverses are composed of highly detailed interactive three-dimensional environments and avatars through which users interact with these environments and with other users, which highlights the importance of these training actions.
Objectives:
- Acquire theoretical knowledge to understand metaverses: their structures, interaction possibilities and gamification elements.
- Acquire theoretical knowledge for the creation of photorealistic metaverses by means of photogrammetry.
- Acquire theoretical knowledge for the creation of virtual twins and hyper-realistic avatars.
- Acquire practical skills for the creation of metaverses.
- Acquire the necessary skills to join a company in the sector immediately.
Professional achievements:
- Design the software component, to ensure its development according to the specifications received.
- Develop the software component for integration into a defined architecture, according to the design and specifications received.
- Carry out the deployment and implementation of the components developed for their integration into the system, according to the technical specifications of the architecture.
- Develop software components that implement operating system management tools and services, using system programming languages, to support administrative tasks according to given functional needs.
- Coding of system library functions for use in the development of software components and optimisation of developments according to technical and functional specifications.
- Develop software components using system programming languages, according to established specifications to operate hardware devices.
- Develop software components that implement communications services, to link different systems according to development standards.
Beneficiary entity
Fundación Canaria Living Lab
Dates
Start date: 06/03/2023
End date: 31/12/2024
Project duration
60 hours of training for each training action.
Unreal Course – 18 Training Actions
Metahuman Avatars and Metaverse Course – 18 Training Actions
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