The VIOLET project has published its State of the Art Report on XR Tools for I/EWE Training, offering an overview of how Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies are currently being used in welding and industrial education. The report explores their potential to support the training of International/European Welding Engineers and provides an important knowledge base for the next stages of the project.

VIOLET is an Erasmus+ project bringing together vocational education and training organisations, welding institutes, qualification bodies and technology specialists from across Europe. Its main objective is to develop XR-based learning resources that can modernise and enrich the training leading to the International/European Welding Engineer qualification, in line with the harmonised EWF/IIW system.

Developed within the project’s research and training-needs work, the report combines national perspectives from Poland, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia with a wider European view. It reviews current I/EWE training approaches, examines the existing XR tools landscape and considers the main opportunities and conditions for integrating these technologies into welding engineer education. The work was coordinated by Augmented Training Services/Seabery with contributions from the VIOLET partners.

The report will now support the project’s upcoming consultation with trainers, training centres and I/EWE professionals. The results of this next phase will help the consortium refine the training needs identified and guide the development of VIOLET’s future learning content and XR resources.

EWF contributed to the report by providing the European perspective on the I/EWE qualification framework and the competences expected from welding engineers. This involvement helps ensure that the project’s future training resources remain connected to the harmonised qualification system and to the practical requirements of training providers, professionals and industry.

The full State of theArt Report on XR Tools for I/EWE Training is available here.