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EU project that is helping unemployed young people with web 2.0 skills gain employment and at the same time increase the skills and experience of older workers in business

EU project for sharing educational resources and activities between schools

Portal for information about online and distance learning courses in Europe

Through VISIR, seven major European networks are working to collect, analyse and share micro innovation practices in the field of ICT for learning, and to propose, in a multistakeholder and collaborative fashion, a new vision for ICT for learning in Europe.

TACCLE2 is an EU funded project to support the implementation of technology in teaching, particularly the use of Web 2.0 technologies at school and university level. It provides courses, materials and discussion forums

Portal maintained by the EU Central Library to promote and support open access to research. It includes many links to open access repositories and search engines and has RSS feeds from journals in various topic areas including economics and education (via separate link)

A platform for sharing scientific and scholarly research related to agriculture, food, and environment. (Project webpage at http://voa3r.eu)

Reviews of educational systems and their implementation of distance and open education prepared by the EU Poerup Project

Website providing information and opportunities for young people across Europe

"'Creative Classrooms' (CCR) are conceptualised as innovative learning environments that fully embed the potential of ICT to innovate learning and teaching practices. This report proposes a multi-dimensional concept for CCR intended to depict the systemic approach that is needed for the sustainable implementation of innovative and open learning environments using ICT across Europe. The aim is to provide educational policy makers, stakeholders and practitioners with thorough understanding of ICT-enabled innovation for learning, focusing on key elements that need to be addressed in order to innovate and modernise Education and Training (E&T) in Europe."

The EC INSTALL project promotes inclusive education, equity and social cohesion while preventing university drop-out of students who need support to fulfil their educational potential because of disadvantages caused by personal, social, cultural or economic circumstances, INSTALL promotes acquisition of the key competence of Learning to Learn at the university level by developing and implementing the innovative Narrative Mediation Path targeted at groups of disadvantaged students. This is a narrative methodology aimed at sustaining the development of a reflexive competence which is based on the process of mentalisation of learning experience on the part of individuals.

EU networking project to help enhance digital teaching and learning skills 

The OportUnidad project explores the adoption of strategies and channels that embrace the principles of openness and reusability within the context of educational institutions. The project intends to foster the adoption and pilot of open educational practices (OEP), and open educational resources (OER) in Latin America as a bottom-up approach to develop a common Higher Education Area. The initiative also opens the possibility to provide free educational resources for self-learners, in terms of informal and lifelong learning.

NTS aims to use ICTs as a tool to make the learning of science subjects more attractive and accessible. The project target groups are students from the general and vocational schools aged 13 to 18; teachers in science subject,plus college & university students attending science education courses (prospective school teachers in sciences) The project will establish a Virtual Lab, as an experimental virtual aid to science learning. This will serve as a platform for science lessons, as a database of teaching materials and as a hub for science-learning-related graphic aids and recorded and illustrated appealing experiments on Nano-Tech. It will include a Nano-Science Center, presenting to learners and their in-service or future teachers the miracles of the nano-technologies. A program for a week Science Camp training including hands-on experiments and demonstrations will be developed and delivered through the VL, this is a good step as an approbation of the contents and functionalities of the virtual lab.

The gateway to European Innovative Learning, provided by the European Commission

Website of the Information Society Unit of the EC Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies project on use of Web 2.0 technologies in training and education - includes reports and case studies.

Repository for learning objects and mateials