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| Organic.Edunet |
| Online Survey Seeks Participants |
 Athens (GR), April 2008 – Organic.Edunet is a European initiative that aims to raise awareness about organic agriculture and agroecology in agricultural universities and schools around Europe. Organic.Edunet wants to facilitate access, usage, and exploitation of digital educational content for teaching relevant topics. In this context, an online survey has been launched. [more...] |
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| MEDA Region |
| Giunti Labs Hosts an International Training Event |
 Sestri Levante (I), April 2008 – More than one hundred teachers and trainers involved in 'eLearning for teachers and trainers in the MEDA region', an important European initiative in eLearning for North African and Middle East countries, have taken part in an international training event hosted by Giunti Labs. [more...] |
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| The COOPER Project |
| Team-based eLearning Turns a New Page |
| Hannover (GER) / Lugano (CH), March 2008 – How do students, who may be located across the globe, collaborate on team-based project work? European researchers have developed the first online platform that integrates elements of eLearning, social networking, and project management to help virtual teams get the most from their practical experience. [more...] |
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| European Support |
| Small Enterprises Accessing the Open Labour Market |
 Chemnitz (GER), March 2008 - The project SOLE is a Leonardo Transfer-of-Innovations-funded project that brings placement support to new EU member states and is targeted towards SMEs and job seekers in foreign countries. The Project’s aim is to help employers who take on workers, trainees, and students from other European countries. From October 2007 until October 2009, the three partners, Interminds LLC, Bulgaria, ROC Midden, the Netherlands, and Community4you GmbH, Germany will carry out the project. [more...] |
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| Practical Guidelines |
| Computer Simulations as Effective Learning Scenarios |
| Twente (NL), September 2007 - Inquiry learning with computer simulations facilitates the education process through experimentation and scientific reasoning. With simulations, students change variables and observe effects in order to form conclusions. Through this process students discover principles, rules, and characteristics of scientific phenomena. So say researchers from the University of Twente, NL, in new guidelines for teachers that provide practical recommendations for improved deployment ICT in secondary schools. [more...] |
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| Statistical Survey |
| ICT in Secondary Education in South-East Europe |
| Moscow (RU), August 207 – The survey "Indicators of ICT Application in Secondary Education of South-East European Countries" aimed at investigating the main factors, tendencies, problems, and solutions for ICT applications in secondary schools of South-Eastern Europe. The survey was conducted by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. [more...] |
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| Open Journal |
| Emerging Technologies in Learning |
| Vienna (A), June 2007 – The second issue of the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning - iJet - has just been published. It focuses on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as on the presentation of practical experience gained while developing and testing elements of technology-enhanced learning. [more...] |
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| Rural Area Networks |
| Initiative Sets up Network Access in Rural France |
| Pomeys (FR), May 2007 – One of the main obstacles to ICT deployment in European rural areas is the lack of cheap high-bandwidth Internet access when ADSL is not available. Alternative solutions exist, but they are expensive and reserved for professional uses (e.g. satellite access). Furthermore, the strategies for introducing ADSL in rural areas of the EU differ from country to country, and while some are already widely covered or plan to be, others will never implement ADSL everywhere because of specific geographical conditions. [more...] |
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| eUser Project |
| Best Practice Cases Collected from Ten EU Countries |
| Bonn (Germany), November 2006 - "The eUser project represents the first coherent effort to address the needs of the whole population in relation to online public services of public interest. While some countries like Denmark and the United Kingdom have a leading edge, European leaders have not done enough to tailor services to the users. Users will demand far more in the future, and there is room for improvement", says eUser project manager Werner B. Korte of Empirica GmbH. [more...] |
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| InWent – GTZ - DED |
| Cooperation for Sustainable Use of ICT |
| Bonn/Berlin (Germany), November 2006 – The Declaration of Principles stated by the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS 2003) indicated the necessity to "share information and knowledge". It thereby places emphasis on the particular importance of ICT within the context of Knowledge for Development. [more...] |
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| First Steps |
| Development of eSocieties in South Caucasus Successful |
 Saarbrücken (Germany), October 2006 – EU efforts to establish eSocieties in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have been successful so far. The current project, called "Development of eSocieties in South Caucasus", is part the European Commission’s TACIS Regional Cooperation Program 2003 and will run until May 2007. [more...] |
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| Explore real problems in truly interactive environment |
 Salford (UK) / Zirl (Austria), August 2006 – Bridging the gap between the currently available educational software and the more dynamic games software market is the goal of a project called CRIMCITY. Supported by funding by the SOCRATES-MINERVA action line of the European Commission, CRIMCITY tests the benefits and effectiveness of learning by means of VE and related technology and incorporates the strengths offered by the media. [more...] |
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| Balance the Budget Yourself! |
| Paris, May 2006 – France's debts have accumulated to nearly 2,000 billion euros or about 33,000 euros per citizen; no wonder that voters are upset. The French Minister of Finance, Jean-François Copé, has replied with an online game called "Cyberbudget", where citizens can try to rescue La Grande Nation's finances themselves. [more...] |
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| EESC to Adopt Key Opinion |
| Brussels, January 2006 - At the request of the Austrian Presidency, the EESC has drawn up an exploratory opinion on the road towards the knowledge-based society, which forms part of its work on the Lisbon Strategy. In its draft opinion, the EESC calls for a Common European Area of Knowledge based on clearly defined targets, benchmarks, timetables, as well as clear responsibilities. [more...] |
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| Elearning for Visually Impaired Persons |
| Dueren, December 2005 – The main aim of the E-Learn-ViP project is to improve visually impaired people's access to all kinds of elearning services through the development of various resources. It runs from March 2005 to August 2006. [more...] |
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