Digitay3D: Inclusive Digital Skills Training and Digital Twins
Tay Cities Region Deal Digital Skills Project
April 2025, Tay Cities Region
The Digitay3D project, delivered as part of the Tay Cities Region Deal Digital Skills Project, achieved a major milestone by upskilling 25 participants, including 6 neurodiverse individuals, in advanced data visualisation techniques from April 2024 to April 2025. This initiative has been pivotal in addressing local digital skills gaps and increasing inclusive growth, whilst also advancing our research and development efforts in immersive digital learning.
Key Highlights
- A total of 25 participants engaged in immersive, hands-on training in advanced data visualisation.
- The programme placed special emphasis on neurodiverse learners, ensuring that individuals facing traditional barriers gained essential digital competencies.
Innovative Digital Twin Outputs
- Dunkeld Archive Digital Twin: An interactive, perpetual 3D archive that enables virtual tours, dynamic updates, and visualisation of diferent room layouts for exhibitions or space planning.
- Perth Autism Experience: This digital twin enhances event previews by ofering virtual walkthroughs that ease anxiety and improve accessibility for all participants.
- Birnam Arts 3D Model: A high-resolution model that aids strategic planning and space reconfguration for community venues, with promising applications such as adaptive local library layouts.
‘Working on this project has opened our eyes to diferent opportunities that technology can be used for to assist our young people to access PAS. Having the opportunity to be talked through the virtual world has also presented us with possibilities for our young people in terms of work experience. Looking forward to working together in the future & referring our young people for work experience.’
The project has helped build capacity and provided critical insights into local needs and the barriers to high-level skills development. These outcomes form a strong foundation for future collaborative research and development and skills initiatives, ensuring sustainable growth and innovation in the region.
This project was funded by Fife Council on behalf of the Tay Cities Region Deal Digital Skills Project Third Sector Challenge Fund, with support from both the UK and Scottish Governments.