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- Virtual Study Visits: a valuable tool for the educational processPublication . Costa, Juliana; Gonçalves, VitorEducation is the key to achieving a more sustainable society. In Portugal, the educational systems determine some rules to promote an educational process that leads students to attain specific skills, abilities, and attitudes according to the student profile at the end of compulsory education. Study or training visits are didactic tools that contribute to the link between theoretical content and practice, adding value to the teaching and learning process. In this sense, virtual study visits (VSVs) using digital technologies are a way to promote connections between knowledge and know-how since they have a low cost, require less bureaucratic processes, and allow teachers to make use of this resource within the timetable of the curricular units. VSVs can be used in all curricular units, adding value to the contents covered. This study rooted in the Design Science Research methodology, proposes the construction of an artefact that can contribute to the training processes within teaching. It is based on an innovation idea awarded in 2021 and consists of creating a web portal to promote virtual visits, which may be used as an environment for the promotion of virtual field trips customised according to the curricular units and the level of the classes. It is expected that the web portal can contribute to the sustainable development of the regions, as it will use local tour guides who will receive all the training to prepare multimedia material and deal with each level of education.
- Interactive virtual tours: a contribution to promoting tourismPublication . Gonçalves, Vitor; Costa, JulianaTourism plays a crucial role in the world economy, and in this sense, digital technologies have been an asset to promote the sector. Digital technologies have revolutionized society and in recent years have become even more accessible to the end-user. With the growth of the web, the end-user went from being a mere passive spectator to an active agent in the construction and communication of infor-mation, allowing the creation of value through the publication of content on social networks to stimulate the regions. This study, through an innovation idea awarded in the year 2021, makes use of the Design Science Research methodology to propose the construction of an artifact aimed at boosting tourism in the interior regions of Portugal and thus co-create a tourism ecosystem capable of interconnecting the various actors involved in the promotion of services. For the construction of the innovation idea, a narrative research was carried out, to be explored within the scope of this method-ology. As a result, we present an innovative idea that proposes the construction of a web portal to be explored through the offer of virtual routes. The web portal, through local guides, will be able to offer the creation of a link between the tourist and the desired travel destination. In the future, the web portal will also be able to offer services in the field of education, such as virtual study tours.