NEWS
Spanish Dissemination: October 30th, 2019, at Zaragoza (Spain)
October 31th, 2019. Fundación Laboral de la Construcción has collaborated in the "Gamification and Prevention of Occupational Risks" conference, organized by the Aragon Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (ISSLA) to address the use of this learning technique based on games that help a better assimilation of content and skills.
During the conference real cases about gamification applied to train in Health and Safety were presented, like Upp Games. The project was presented by Luis Manuel Barrios, International Projects Officer at the Fundación Laboral, along with other initiatives coordinated by this institution: VRoad, which boost to train in Occupational Risk Prevention for road works, through virtual reality; and El Juego de la Oca de PRL en Construcción (traduction: The Goose Game of Prevention in Construction).
Fifth partnership: October 14th and 15th, 2019, at Liège (Belgium)
October 16th, 2019. The Upp Games partnership has met for the fifth time in the Belgian city of Liège, to review the contents of the application of training games, which aims to train Health and Safety to the students and professionals of the sector who work at height, and plan the remaining tasks of the project.
Among them, the realization of the pilot experience of the training and the proposal of a roadmap for the recognition of skills acquired after the learning process of Upp Games.
The meeting ended with the consortium's technical visit to the Grâce-Hollogne Energy Efficiency space, where the institutions representatives were able to see the work of this organization for improving the sustainability of the construction industry.
The consortium will meet for the last time in March 2020 in Düsseldorf to carry out a final review of the project tasks and prepare the final report that will conclude the project after more than two years of execution.
