Network of Excellence in Professional Learning

Coordinator

Wolfgang NejdlLearning Lab Lower Saxony

Swedish Coordinator

Ambjörn NaeveKnowledge Management Research Group

Royal Institute of Technology

www.prolearn-project.org

Networks of Excellence / General Goals

Structure & shape research in technology enhanced learning

fundamental and basic research & outreach to industy

Joint programme of activities

Integrating activities

coordinated programming of the partners’ activities sharing of tools/facilities/ infrastructures managing the knowledge portfolio staff mobility and exchanges

Joint research activities

undertaking research on topics supporting the network’s goals

Spreading excellence

training of researchers and other key staff dissemination and technology transfer to industry

PROLEARN Goals (continued)

Objectives Advance the state of the art

in technology enhanced learning and learning resources Enable sustainable, innovative and efficient

professional eTraining infrastructures and processes (focusing on European SME’s)

Facts 6 Mio. Euro for 4 Years > 220 researcher, lot‘s of additional PhD students starting January 2004

PARTNERS

19 core and already more than 100 associate partners from academia and industry

Coordinator and Vice-Coordinator L3S and DFKI

Core partners OU UK, Ariadne (KUL), FHG, WUW, CSI, EPFL, ETHZ, POLIMI, JSI, UPM, KTH, NCSR, INT, HEC, TUE, RWTH, HUT

Associate partners BT, Carnegie Mellon, StanfordIBM, France Telecom, KlettVerlag, IMC, OU NL, SimonFrazier Univ., Pittsburgh Univ.,Swedish Educational TV, etc.

Core Partners

• Learning Lab Lower Saxony (Germany)• Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (Germany)• Open University (United Kingdom)• Katolieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany)• Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Austria)• Universität für Bodenkultur - Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (Austria)• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)• Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Switzerland)• Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

• Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)• Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)• National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos” (Greece)• Institut National des Télécommunications (France)• Hautes Etudes Commerciales (France)• Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands)• Rheinsch-Westfählische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany)• Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)

Core Partners (cont.)

NoE Structure and Work Packages

Integration of Research & Training @ PROLEARN Academy

Coordinated and integrative activities Co-ordinated programming and research Exchange of personnel, enabling staff mobility Joint use of research infrastructures and facilities Sharing common research tools and platforms

6 main activities graduate degree programme doctoral programme (incl. research apprenticeship programmes) junior faculty programme (incl. Mentoring programmes and

research fellowships) entrepreneurship programme Influence, shape and integrate European research (building on the

substantial research efforts integrated in the JPA) PROLEARN integrated service and communication portal

set up a European wide information and consulting organisation

facilitate intake of industrial requirements

dissemination of results to industry and trade

build up sustainable structures for the transfer of PROLEARN R&D to industrial partners

towards an integrated competence center infrastructure

Outreach to Industry @ PROLEARN Virtual Competence Centre

Virtual Competence Centre