Project funded: Beyond the Classroom: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Haptics for Enhanced Surgical Training and Education (ImmersiveSurgicalEdu)

Exciting News!

I am thrilled to share that our groundbreaking research project, "Beyond the Classroom: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Haptics for Enhanced Surgical Training and Education" (ImmersiveSurgicalEdu), has been funded.

Our goal is to combine the capabilities of virtual and augmented reality (VR, AR) technologies with low-cost wearable haptic devices to create a hapto-audio-visual hands-on laboratory environment.

Under the Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education KA220-HED call, our initiative earned a significant grant of 250,000 Euros. We appreciate the support and acknowledgement of the significance of our research.

The project will be led by the University of Agder in Norway.

I would also like to extend my gratitude to our project partners: Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; the University of Siena, Italy; and the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania.

Together, we will collaborate and push the boundaries of surgical education.