To assist European universities to become more mature users and custodians of digital data about their students as they learn online, the SHEILA project will build a policy development framework that promotes formative assessment and personalized learning, by taking advantage of direct engagement of stakeholders in the development process.
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myEcoCost is a foundational methodology that defines a global collaborative network of resource accounting nodes. It provides a means of accounting for and expressing usage of natural resources for products, services and technologies, to inform all economic actors including SMEs (Small and Medium size Enterprise) and consumers, on environmentally relevant information. It is a novel, bottom up appr…
Ecological issues in traffic become more and more pressing as personal transportation is one of the greatest contributors of CO2 emissions. Means to help people reducing their ecological impact are urgently needed. To answer this need EcoNav provides travellers with personalized multi-modal navigation tools that allow, help and persuade them to travel and drive ecological friendlier. To convince u…
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iTEC (Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom) is a four year, large-scale project that takes an informed look at the potential classroom of the future.
Starting in September 2010, iTEC will bring together policy makers, researchers, technology suppliers, other technology-enhanced learning experts and innovative teachers in order to design and build scalable learning and teaching scenarios for the future classroom with recognition of the realities of pace of the educational reform process. Rigorous testing of these future classroom scenarios in large-scale pilots will then be carried out in order to significantly increase the possibility that innovation can be mainstreamed and taken to scale when the project ends.
With 27 project partners, including 14 Ministries of Education (MoE), and funding from the European Commission of 9.45 million Euros, iTEC will provide a model describing how the deployment of technology in support of innovative teaching and learning activities can move beyond small scale pilots and become embedded in all Europe's schools. The strategic nature of the project is underlined by the fact that the iTEC piloting in >1,000 classrooms in 12 countries is by some margin the largest pan-European validation of ICT in schools yet undertaken.
FET-Open is happy to announce the launch of a new funding objective - a continuous scheme targetted at young scientists with high potential - FET Young Explorers.
This objectives gives young researchers and scientists the opportunity to take their ideas forward in the form of small STREP proposals, with possibility of funding in the order of EUR 1 million. This objective is truly designed with the needs of young scientists in mind. Successful projects must be led by a young researcher, and the leadership by young researchers of all work packages is also required. No more than six years should have elapsed between the award of a Ph.D. (or equivalent) for each such young researcher and the date of submission of the short proposal.
The FET Young Explorer Objective aims at capturing the creative potential of young researchers by fostering their leadership and participation in collaborative research projects targeting first-ever and exploratory, multi-disciplinary research. This exploration should be grounded in scientifically plausible ideas that can provide a novel basis for the development of radically new concepts and visions that extend the conventional boundaries of ICT. New multi-disciplinary approaches and unconventional methodologies are encouraged.
The FET Young Researchers objective is the place to submit first ever ideas which can change the fact of ICT and computing forever. In particular, successful projects are expected to open new avenues of research towards future ICT that may be radically different from present day ICT, empower the next generation of European science and technology leaders through their increased leadership of collaborative ICT research, and promote early independence of young high potential researchers.
The FET Young Researchers scheme is continuously open until 11 September 2012. FET-Open applies a two-step submission scheme and FET-Open specific eligibility and evaluation criteria (see Appendix 5 of the 2011-2012 Work Programme for further details).