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eLearning & Minerva
Projects Meeting
Dipoli, Helsinki
3 July 2006
Brian Holmes
Head of Unit
Education, Audiovisual and Culture
Executive Agency
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Introduction
Minerva
Socrates
• Objectives of the meeting
• Overview of the agenda
• Opportunities for
networking & helpdesk
• Introducing the Agency
• The team
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Objectives of the meeting
• To establish an open dialogue among
project participants, and to boost this
dialogue beyond the meeting
• To facilitate exchange of experience
and awareness of subjects of
common interest
• To provide concrete information on the
latest developments at the European
Community level, notably the creation of
the Agency and future perspectives
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Overview of the Agenda
AGENDA
9.00-9.30
Registration
9.30-11.00
Plenary Session:
11.0011.30
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Welcome and presentation of the meeting objectives - Brian Holmes
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Future perspectives - Maruja Gutierrez
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Dissemination and Exploitation - Janette Sinclair
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Presentation of the eLearning Portal - Elina Jokisalo
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eTwinning - Eugenio Riviere
Coffee break
11.3013.00
Parallel sessions (1)
ROOM 25
1.1 Quality
Moderator: Brian Holmes
13.0014.30
2.1 Learning Communities
Moderator: Maruja Gutiérrez
ROOM 24
3.1 Digital literacy
Moderator: Kirsti Ramberg
Lunch
14.3016.00
Parallel sessions (2)
1.2 Content
Moderator: Brian Holmes
16.0016.30
ROOM 26
2.2 Dissemination and Exploitation
Moderator: Janette Sinclair
3.2 Innovative Pedagogy
Moderator: Lieve van de Brande
Helpdesk
eLearning
3.3 Virtual Campuses
Moderator: Peter Birch
Helpdesk
Minerva
Coffee break
16.3018.00
Parallel sessions (3)
1.3 School cooperation
Moderator: Eugenio Riviere Gómez
2.3 Sustainability, Deployment and
Forecasting
Moderator: Jose Pessanha
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Networking and helpdesk
• Rooms 22 and 23 are available for you to network with
other projects: contact ccc
• A Helpdesk is available at the entrance of room 25-26:
Minerva
14:30 – 16:00
eLearning 16:30 – 18:00
• Coffee & lunch in the Cone lobby (offered)
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The Executive Agency – why?
• Commission’s strategy :
– Separating political/legislative tasks and management tasks
– Replacing private bodies by public bodies for the management
tasks (Executive Agencies)
• Raison d’être:
– Better managed programmes and improved services to
beneficiaries
– Synergies between programmes
• Executive agencies have legal personality and are
supervised by the Commission
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The Executive Agency – what?
Strands of several
community programmes:
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Socrates
Leonardo
Youth
Media Plus
Media Training
• Culture
• E-Learning
• Erasmus Mundus
Minerva
Socrates
Comenius Lingua
Grundtvig
Erasmus
eLearning initiative & programme
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The Executive Agency – how?
• Mandate to manage
whole lifecycle of
projects
• Managed by detached
Commission officials
• Staff of ~300 persons:
including experts in
education & training
• From a dedicated
building in Brussels
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The team from the Agency
Brian
HOLMES
Sylvie
ROHANOVA
Elena
COELLO
Véronique
MAES
Stefano
SOATTIN
Mette
LEARIE
Peter
BIRCH
Luis
CARVALHO
Karin
DE KELVER
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Team from the Commission
Maruja GUTTIEREZ DIAZ
Janette SINCLAIR
Johanna HULKKO
José PESSANHA
Kirsti RAMBERG
Eugenio RIVIERE
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