1. Network of Excellence in Professional Learning Coordinator Wolfgang Nejdl Learning Lab Lower Saxony Swedish Coordinator Ambjörn Naeve Knowledge Management Research Group Royal Institute of Technology www.prolearn-project.org

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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, Stanford IBM, France Telecom, Klett Verlag, IMC, OU NL, Simon Frazier Univ., Pittsburgh Univ., Swedish Educational TV, etc.

5. 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)

6. 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.)

7. NoE Structure and Work Packages

9. 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

10. 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

11. Virtual Competence Centre