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2003-2004 Work Programme
2.3.1.12 Technology-enhanced Learning and access to Cultural Heritage
Objective
To develop advanced systems and services that help improve access to Europe's knowledge and educational resources (including cultural and scientific collections) and generate new forms of cultural and learning experiences.
Focus is on
- Improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning, for individuals and organisations, independent of time, place and pace, through the development of open systems and services in support of ubiquitous, experiential and contextualised learning and virtual collaborative learning communities. Work combines advanced cognitive and knowledge-based approaches with new media, including virtual and augmented reality, virtual presence and simulation, takes account of technological, pedagogical as well as organisational aspects, and aims at demonstrating next-generation learning solutions in sizable field experiments.
- Improving accessibility, visibility and recognition of the commercial value of Europe's cultural and scientific resources, by developing: advanced digital libraries services, providing high-bandwidth access to distributed and highly interactive repositories of European culture, history and science; environments for intelligent heritage and tourism, re-creating and visualising cultural and scientific objects and sites for enhancing user experience in cultural tourism; advanced tools, platforms and services in support of highly automated digitisation processes and workflows, digital restoration and preservation of film and video material, and digital memory management and exploitation.
It is expected that IPs will be the main vehicle for R&D and demonstration of learning systems and services, while NoEs will contribute to exploratory, longer-term research enhancing human learning and cognitive processes. All instruments, including STREPs, will help promoting best practice, take up and dissemination.
The digital libraries field is open for both NoEs and Integrated Projects, developing shared test-beds and resources and seeking to connect scientific and cultural actors. NoEs and STREPs will be the prevailing instruments for intelligent heritage and tourism. Work in Preservation aims at structuring new research communities round emerging agendas and platforms for research, through Integrated Projects and NoEs.