Past Projects

PRO-IDEAL and PRO-IDEAL PLUS
PRO-IDEAL - PROmotion of an ICT Dialogue between Europe and America Latina – promoted the ICT programme in Argentina, Brazil (Sao Paulo southwards), Chile and Uruguay, created the Project Angels network and defined success factors for third party participatin in EU ICT projects.
PRO-IDEAL PLUS was the PRO-IDEAL extension towards Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and Costa Rica
Main project results:
-Last ICT Research Priorities in Latin America
-Success factors
-Best practices for social media tools in the area of international cooperation
-Visit the Country Pages
-Consult the ICT wiki
-Find a Project Angel in your region
-Test your knowledge about the FP7-ICT programme

YOUp@ - Youth, Participatory democracy and the media
The main objective of the YOUp@ project was to create an on-line and off-line dialogue among young people about Youth, Participatory democracy and the role of the media on it.
To achieve the goals YOUp@ created the following activities:
- A web 2.0 platform for sharing ideas (forum), providing information (library and WIKI) and facilitating personal expression (blogs) open for young people all over the word.
- An intercultural “Youth parliament on democracy” event among 24 young people.
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A “Solemn Resolution” containing all the decisions and conclusions reached thought the website and the “Youth parliament on democracy event”.
- A video-documentary illustrating the Youth Parliament event.
Youtube video of the YOUp@ project.

EQF code EQF-Code - Transferring and applying the instruments of the European Qualification Framework (EQF) and the e-Competence Framework (eCF) to multimedia professions in the field of content development
The main objectives of the project were to:
1. analyse the qualification profiles in the field of content development and describe them by learning outcomes;
2. refer the determined qualification profiles to the EQF to the national sectoral qualification frameworks and the qualification frameworks developed at European level by using approaches developed in the previous projects "CompTrain" and "Embedding standards";
3. determine a comprehensive European qualification profile for content developers; and
4. based on this "ideal profile", develop reference material for entreprises and guidelines for training institutions so that they could adapt their training offers in the field of content development accordingly.
Website
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LEKTOR - Legal Knowledge Transfer Accelerator for SMEs
The aim of LEKTOR was to improve access to legal knowledge for e-business and to allow for autonomous knowledge exchange among all players in e-business through the LEXELERATOR platform. The platform provided easy to understand information on crucial legal issues in e-business. A Legal Wiki gave a quick overview, explaining the potential impact of legal issues on e-business and provides useful links.
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Wise

WISE - Women Integration and Skills for Entrepreneurship
The aim of WISE was to support the needs of women entrepreneurs in the ICT/ICT-supported sector and to create gender-awareness between all players in ICT.
The following documents and tools are the result of WISE:
1. Benchmarking report;
2. Benchmarking tool / Self-assessment tools;
3. "Vademecum" for women entrepreneurs.
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CompTrain

CompTrain - Competence Needs for Formation and Training in Multimedia Jobs
CompTrain defined competences and skills required in multimedia jobs and professions through:
1. a Catalogue of multimedia / new technologies professions, tasks & skills: [FR/EN/DE]
2. a set of Training Modules Recommendations [FR/EN/DE]
CompTrain furthermore made available a set of tools to assist students, workers, SMEs and training institutions:
- Skills & competences questionnaire
- Self-assessment tool.

SPREAD - Stimulate and promote good practice in the field of digital content in eastern and western Europe
SPREAD aimsed at disseminating and promoting best practices and results of the EU's eContent programme to interested stakeholders in the digital content industries and the public sector in Western and Eastern Europe.
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€ttec

€TTEC - European Training Tools for e-Content Start-ups and SMEs’ Expansion
€TTEC aimed at identifying European Critical Success Factors in eContent and translating them into advanced training modules involving experts on multilinguality, localisation of content, international IPR, European network development and entrepreneurial assessment.
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EMMA - European Multimedia Accelerator in San Francisco
EMMA provided a comprehensive set of services designed to assist European Multimedia SMEs through their start-up phase of establishing a business presence in the San Francisco Bay area. EMMA was thus at the very origin of EMF's e-Accelerator service platform.
e-Accelerator


PACT - Partnership Agreement between Content and Technology
PACT was a dissemination action aimed at stimulating SMEs to submit proposals under the EU RTD programmes.
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FIRST - Film Restoration and Conservation Strategies
FIRST launched an open platform on issues related to digitisation for conservation, restoration and exploitation of film collections. Its objective was to provide European conservation bodies with a reliable knowledge base on a series of digitisation related issues.
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RITMO - Research on Integrated Trading Model for Music Online
RITMO addressed challenges faced by the independent music industry in Europe in relation to technological, business and legal issues related to the online distribution of music.
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CONFOSS - Confederation of SME Servers
The challenge of CONFOSS was to create a Confederation of SME Servers, a common internet-based platform between several organisations serving Europe's SME communities. CONFOSS was the very first step of establishing the network of associations, clusters and support organisations that are still EMF' s trusted partners.
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DEUS - Developing European SMEs
DEUS was a very early research programme initiated to increase the understanding of how the information requirements of European SMEs could be better addressed by the use of telematics.

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