 | 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. - 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. |
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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 Info on Adam Portal |
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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. More info
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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. More info
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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.
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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. More info
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€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. More info
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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
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PACT - Partnership Agreement between Content and Technology PACT
was a dissemination action aimed at stimulating SMEs to submit
proposals under the EU RTD programmes. Project Abstract
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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. Project Abstract
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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. Project Abstract
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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. Project
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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. |