VRECH - Virtual Reality Education Center

24.02.2025 - VRECH is the first VR education center in Lower Saxony to focus specifically on the use of immersive technologies in education.

Immersion in virtual worlds is no longer just a topic for the games industry! Immersive technologies such as 360-degree videos, augmented or virtual reality (XR technologies for short) open up new possibilities for learning. Whether exploring distant lands, visualizing areas that are difficult to access in real life or appealing to different sensory organs - this is already possible with the help of new technologies. This opens up numerous new options, particularly in schools and in the field of education.

When : On Monday, March 20, 2023 from 3.30-6.00 pm
Where : On the premises of the Multi Media Berufsbildende Schulen (MMBBS) of the Hannover Region (Expo Plaza 3, 30539 Hannover)

Now that the experimental room has been equipped in recent months and corresponding training courses for teachers and trainers have been developed, we would like to officially open the VRECH together with you on March 20, 2023 .

What you can expect

15:30	Official start of the event
15:30 - 15:45	Welcome by Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg, Regional President Steffen Krach and Headmaster Jörg Sönckens
15:45 - 16:00	Presentation of the Virtual Reality Education Center Hannover - VRECH by the VRECH team of the Hannover Region and NLQ
16:00 - 16:30	Impulses from school and company practice for the implementation of VR applications in vocational training and opportunities for cooperation between learning venues
16:30 - 17:00	Panel discussion on "Potentials and challenges of XR for vocational education and training"
17:00 - 18:00	Visit the AR/VR market of opportunities and get-together with snacks and drinks. Find out more at the stands ofVIL-SchuleGmbH; Brückenbauer with the 360-degree project, ApitsLab, Landesinitiative N21, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research and many more

Together with strong partners and supported by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, the VRECH - Virtual Reality Education Center Hannover was founded in May 2022 at the MultiMedia vocational schools in the Hannover region.

VRECH is the first VR education center in Lower Saxony to focus specifically on the use of immersive technologies in education. The target groups are primarily (vocational) schools, but also training companies in the Hanover region and throughout Lower Saxony.

Equipping and providing a virtual reality experimentation room at the MultiMedia vocational schools in the Hannover region, with opportunities to try out and learn, as well as the inspection, provision and continuous testing of existing hardware and software from the XR sector.

Inventory of content and development of further training for teachers and trainers to raise awareness of the technology and enable the target group to integrate XR independently into lessons and training.

Development and provision of handouts and XR catalogs for schools as well as publicizing and networking VRECH with other XR initiatives in Lower Saxony and Germany.

The VRECH - Virtual Reality Education Center is a cooperation project between the Hannover Region (Department of Economic and Employment Promotion and Department of Schools), the MultiMedia vocational schools in the Hannover Region and the

Lower Saxony State Institute for School Quality Development (NLQ). The project is supported by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs.