Arrigo Marco

Since 1 October 1991, he has been serving at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for Educational Technology (ITD) in Palermo.

Throughout his scientific career, he has held roles as project manager and technical-scientific coordinator in national and international projects focused on Augmented Reality and Immersive Reality applied to education, Mobile Learning, and information technologies for people with visual impairments. He has also gained extensive experience as a senior developer in the design and development of numerous software prototypes for educational purposes.

In recent years, his research activity has focused particularly on methodologies and technologies for Augmented Learning and Mobile Learning, developing specialized expertise in the creation of systems for learning through mobile devices and next-generation immersive environments. In this field, he has coordinated and/or participated in numerous national and international research projects funded by the European Union, including:

• coordination of the European project ARIES – “Augmented and Immersive Reality for Improved Education in School in Europe”, recognized at the European level as a best practice;
• participation in the European Horizon project ARETE – “Augmented Reality Interactive Educational System”, coordinating, for ITD, software design and development activities;
• coordination of the European project MOTILL – “Mobile Technologies in Lifelong Learning: Best Practices”, funded by the European Union;
• scientific responsibility for ITD in the project VODIE – “Vocational Education of Visually Impaired People via Distance Education”, funded by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme – Leonardo da Vinci (2010–2012);
• scientific responsibility for ITD for the “Mobile serious game” activity within the project “Matera Città Narrata”, promoted by the Territorial Promotion Agency (APT) and the Department of Productive Activities of the Basilicata Region (2010–2011);
• scientific responsibility for ITD for the project “New technologies to rediscover Palermo’s professions and culture”, funded under the European Social Fund, Sicilian Region, Axis IV – Human Resources, Projects to Strengthen Lifelong Learning (2010–2011).

In 2023, he was co-author of the standard CWA 18006:2023 – “The Standard for eXtended Reality for Learning and Performance Augmentation: Methodology, Techniques, and Data Formats”.

Within the research line on information technologies for e-learning, he coordinated and served as technical-scientific coordinator of the MoULe® (Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning) project, a system for mobile and ubiquitous learning, which received the Mobile Learning Excellence GOLD Award in the Education category in 2009 and, in 2010, the Aldo Fabris Italian Award in the University – Training and Enhancement of Human Capital category.

In 2018, he also received the App4Sud Award with the application Studiare Migrando, winner in the section “Work, legality and the fight against inequalities” of the contest promoted by ForumPA.

He collaborates on an ongoing basis with universities, research bodies, and educational institutions, contributing to the national debate on innovation processes in educational models in the era of digital transition. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 scientific publications in national and international journals and conference proceedings, as well as editor and co-author of scientific book chapters and volumes.