Best Practices Guide: now ready!

One year after its launch, the Erasmus+ project Lab of the Future has reached its first important milestone!

 Best Practices Guide: now ready!

The Guide of 70 Digitalisation Best Practices in Laboratories is now ready and available in 5 languages: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Macedonian.

It collects real examples from laboratories and VET centres across Europe that have introduced digital tools in their daily work, from data management and cloud solutions to automation, IoT and artificial intelligence.

Each practice explains the context, the tools used, how it was implemented and the results obtained. In this way, other labs and training centres can learn from it and adapt it to their own reality.

First Outcomes

•    Realisation of 4 on-site national focus groups with EU labs and VET Centres in Spain, Italy, Portugal and North Macedonia, and 1 EU-wide online focus group.

•    Participation in Labsummit roundtable in Portugal.

•    Compilation of best practices from laboratories and VET centres.

•    Guide of 70 Digitalisation Best Practices in Laboratories in 5 languages.

•    A European Qualification Framework (EQF) level 4 for the Digital Lab Technician.

 Ongoing Activities

•    Development of 6 Digital Lab Training Units in Green IT, AI and Machine Learning, Virtual Reality, IoT, Cloud Management and Information Management Systems for Labs and VET Centres.

•    Design, development and integration of an Autonomous and Immersive IT Learning System.

 Next Steps

•    EU Digital Working Group call for participants.

•    Development of Assessment and Roadmaps to VET Centres and Labs to integrate Digitalisation Strategies

•    Development of an Autonomous and Immersive IT Learning System-Future Lab Nexus.

A big thank you to all the laboratories, VET centres and experts who shared their experience with us!