Innovation projects

'Visualising the Impact of the legislation by analysing public DIscussions using statistical means'
VIDI - 7th Framework Programme Objective 7.3: ICT for Governance & Policy Modelling
(no: EP-08-01-014)
The project will provide policy-makers with information on public opinion and a better understanding of the arguments and ideas being expressed, which will help them better asses the costs and benefits of related legislation.
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'mobile Performance Support System for Vocational Education and Training'
mPSS - The Lifelong Learning Programme, Leonardo da Vinci project
This project applies performance-centered approach in mobile learning management systems and results in a Performance-centered Mobile Learning Model (PML Model).
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'TOUrism PlAtform for euRopean Educational Games'
TOUAREG - The Lifelong Learning Programme, Leonardo da Vinci project
(ES/07/LLP-LdV/TOI/149018)
The TOUAREG - TOUrism PlAtform for euRopean Educational Games - has the aim to respond to the existing needs and priorities of improving, sustaining and reinforcing the organisational, social and communication competences and skills.
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'Using wireless technologies for context sensitive education and training'
CONTSENS - The Lifelong Learning Programme, Leonardo da Vinci project
(2007 – 1968 / 001 – 001)
The project focuses on the development of appropriate training/learning materials for mobile learning enhanced by context sensitive and location based delivery. This will encompass development for less qualified workers.
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'The role of mobile learning in European education'
The Socrates Programme, Minerva project
(227828-CP-1-2006-1-IE-MINERVA-MPP)
The objective of this project is to bring this unprecedented ownership of mobile devices into European education and training. For this reason the first target group is Commission decision makers and decision makers in the 25 EU states to whom the products of the project will be personally sent. Further target groups are the students and institutions in the partner countries, and eventually in the whole 25 countries. The problem is that students use their mobile phones constantly but not yet in their education.
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'The impact of new technologies on distance learning students'
IMPACT - The Lifelong Learning Programme, Leonardo da Vinci project
(IE/06/C/F/RF-81300)
The ultimate goal of the project is to provide a set of findings that help instructors understand the implications of various technologies for their students, and to provide research-based principles for how instructors can best use technology in their teaching.
The methodology to be employed is based on the identifying and implementing educational practices supported by rigorous evidence of the US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences of December 2003, probably the most recent and most authoritative educational research methodology.
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'Semantic enabled Agile Knowledge-based E-government'
SAKE - The 6th Framework Programme (FP6), an Information Society Technologies project
(IST-2002-7.1.2.8.)
The SAKE project addresses the afore-mentioned needs by specifying, developing and deploying a holistic framework and supporting tools for an agile knowledge-based e-government that will be sufficiently flexible to adapt to changing and diverse environments and needs. The proposed SAKE solution will comprise: (a) a semantic-based change management system, (b) semantic-based content management system, (c) a semantic-based groupware system. The SAKE project brings together a well-balanced mixture of ten partners, that each one brings into the project a different focus of work and a different perspective of emphasis.
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'Studio - Ontology-driven Learning Environment'

The primary objective of the Studio approach and system is to provide support in exploring missing knowledge areas of candidate students in the frames of an electronic learning environment in order to help them to complement their educational deficiencies. The major role of the ontology-driven learning environment is to actively support the whole learning cycle with the help of adaptive tests and modularized, well-structured electroninc learning units.
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'EU Certificates Project'
EU Cert - The Lifelong Learning Programme, Leonardo da Vinci project
(135691- LLP-1-2007-1-AT-KA3-KA3MP)
The objective of this EU Cert Campus project is to build on the established ECQA Association and to integrate the results from a European research project which developed an integrated selective online learning platform system to build an online learning system for all the professions for training organisations from 14 European countries.
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'Certified e-Learning Manager'
CeLM - The Lifelong Learning Programme, Leonardo da Vinci project
In this ITP project CELT (Certified E-Learning Managers Transfer) the results of two former EU projects will transferred to the market in form of job role based training and certificates. In PLATO (E-Learning project, 2006 – 2007) a new strategy of online learning systems has been developed and the knowledge about using such potentials will be transported. In EQN (European Qualification network) a partnership of 45 raining institutions in 18 countries agreed joint quality criteria and common certification rules which are applied across the different European regions in the Life Long Learning scope in the IT and services sector.
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'Empowering Business Ecosystems of Small Service Enterprises to Face the Economic Crisis'
eBest - 7th Framework Programme
(FP7-SME-2008-2-243554)
The eBEST project strategic objective is to set-up, experiment and promote the adoption of new collaboration practices within each business ecosystem and across the ecosystem borders, taking advantage of a shared knowledge, an agreed corpus or rules and codes of practice, and a suite of ICT tools to support the intended ecosystem dynamics.
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'European Languages Virtual Network'
ELViN - The Lifelong Learning Programme, Leonardo da Vinci project
(505740-2009-LLP-ES-KA2-KA2MP)
The project aims to address these issues by creating a multilingual online social community of language learners, based on existing social network software, which will be enhanced with tools developed by the project. These innovations will facilitate the request and rapid creation of relevant up-to-date content, and the adaptation of existing content to other linguistic and professional contexts, and the profiling of the learners according to their linguistic and content needs in order to facilitate matching of learner needs.
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