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For inmates, the advantages of participating to education and training activities are multiple. Being usually low educated and without qualifications, they gain confidence, and by acquiring basic competences, and developing transversal and vocational skills, they increase their chances to be employed when they are free. Yet, access to employment is one of the conditions for a sound rehabilitation in autonomy, while reducing the risk of recidivism. But training opportunities may be limited because not all prisons have the technical premises needed to provide vocational courses. And, if there are some opportunities, prisoners may be reluctant to participate or may drop out after a while.Virtual Reality for Training Inmates (ViRTI) wants to act on these two limiting factors: 1) by creating virtual environments it is possible to compensate a lack of laboratories, material or tools; 2) by introducing interactive features and gamification in the learning content, it is possible to attract more participants and to maintain their motivation thus reducing dropping out rates.ViRTI gathers four partners, one expert of prison systems, two education and training centers with a long experience in training inmates and one developer of interactive learning content experienced in virtual reality. Together they will:- analyse the potential of virtual reality for education and training in prisons and specify some use cases- develop an interactive gamified training path in the construction sector, using virtual reality based on 360° videos- pilot it in three different prison contexts: short term convicts, juvenile justice centre and detention centres welcoming prisoners sentenced to more than one year with positive perspectives for rehabilitation.- provide guidelines to 1) Penitenciary administrations, 2) Funding bodies, 3) Educators and trainers, 4) Learning content and technology providers; so that they are able to introduce virtual reality tools for training prisoners. Then, more virtual reality based content can be used in prisons, and more prisons will introduce it in collaboration with education and training providers and more inmates will benefit from its added value. They will develop skills and competences, acquire knowledge of economic sectors lacking workforce, increasing their chances to be employed. This is applicable for the participating countries as all results will be available in French, Spanish, Catalan, Greek, Portuguese. The English versions disseminated will allow a transfer to any other country.
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