Transcript GRUNDTVIG — ADULT EDUCATION AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL …

WINE:
IDEAS FOR FUTURE EUROPEAN
COOPERATION PROJECTS
Two opportunities for future joint European projects:
1. Grundtvig 1 and 4
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/grun
dtvig/home_en.html
Deadline: 1 November 2004
2. eContentplus
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_e/telearn/econtentplus.htm
Duration: 2005-2008
eCONTENTPLUS
2. eCONTENTPLUS- MAKING DIGITAL
CONTENT IN EUROPE MORE ACCESSIBLE,
USABLE AND EXPLOITABLE
The current proposal is a follow-on from the eContent
Programme (2001-2004) and aims at:
1. Facilitating access to European Digital Content
2. Improving quality by facilitating best practice
related
to digital content
3. Reinforcing co-operation and awareness between
digital content stakeholders
eCONTENTPLUS
ADDRESSED TARGETS
• To facilitate broader availability of and access to
quality content for service creation
• To focus on areas such as the public sector
information and the production and dissemination of
educational, cultural and scholarly content
• To facilitate the transfer of knowledge, experiences
and good practices and to support co-ordination
activities
• To design and deliver quality multilingual and
multicultural content
• To focus on the end-user- be it the citizen, the
eCONTENTPLUS
LINES OF ACTION
(ANNEX I)
1A. Fostering the proliferation of open European
knowledge pools of digital objects, for education
and research communities, as well as for the
individual.
The activities should also encourage the use of open
standards, and the creation of large user groups
analysing and testing pre-standardisation and
specification schemas aiming to convey European
multilingual and multicultural aspects into the
process of definition of global standards for digital
learning content.
eCONTENTPLUS
LINES OF ACTION
(ANNEX I)
1B. Promoting the emergence of trans-European
information infrastructures for accessing and using
high quality European digital cultural and scientific
resources through the linking of virtual libraries,
community memories, etc.
Activities should encompass co-ordinate approaches
to digitisation and collection building,
preservation of digital objects, inventories of
cultural and scientific digital resources.
They should improve access to digital cultural and
scientific assets through effective licensing schemas
and
eCONTENTPLUS
LINES OF ACTION
(ANNEX I)
2A. The activities intend to facilitate the identification
and wide diffusion of best practice in methods,
processes and operations to achieve higher quality,
greater efficiency and effectiveness on the creation,
use and distribution of digital content
2B. They encompass experiments that demonstrate
searchability, usability, and re-usability of digital
content while meeting from the very beginning the
requirements of different target groups and markets
2C. Target application areas are public sector
information, spatial data, digital learning and
cultural content, as well as scientific and scholarly
eCONTENTPLUS
LINES OF ACTION
(ANNEX I)
3A. The activities include measures supporting
collaboration between public sector actors, as well as
awareness building among potential users of
existing and upcoming products and services.
3B. They will support the development of
benchmarking, monitoring and analysis tools, the
impact assessment of the programme as well as the
dissemination of results.
3C. They will identify and analyse emerging
opportunities and problems (e.g. trust, quality
marking, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in
education), and propose, as appropriate, solutions.
eCONTENTPLUS
WHY eCONTENTPLUS?
THE EWDL PROJECT
It could be a good opportunity to try and finalise our old
project idea for:
A EUROPEAN WOMEN'S DIGITAL LIBRARY.
The Cultural, Historical and Political Heritage of
European Women.