Preparing for eContentplus III
Educational Content
Bratislava, 21-22 September 2006

The 3rd event of the Central European platform Preparing for eContentplus brought together speakers, panellists and participants from eight European countries.
Productive were the discussions amongst representatives from all sectors, industry, public administration, associations and press. Once more the conference was a good location to meet people and develop projects.

Starting with his sincere welcome address Mr. Miroslav Kukucka, the Government's Plenipotentiary for Informatisation of Society, opened the conference and gave floor to a series of high quality speeches and discussions.

The broad area of development, distribution and use of educational content was represented by enthusiastic professionals and such were the presentations and discussions. The effect was a conference rich of content and with a lot of learning for the different national and sectoral groups.

The first Key-Note Speaker Jan Hylén from the OECD in Paris, gave both a broad overview and a deep insight into the topic. The global perspective of his presentation on the impact of Open Educational Resources helped a lot in discussion the European position and see examples of business models in use.

On the other hand the second Key-Note Speaker Mr. Ludovit Molnar from the technical University Bratislava brought back some essential educational aspects into this often technically dominated discussions. With his term "educational culture" he stress the importance of contextual questions in teaching and learning. The following presentations of current project-ideas and first co-operation talks made the transition of the official meeting into the matching-activities and networking smooth and quite never ending.

In a multi-national cooperation Mr. Spyridon Pilos, European Commission, DG Information Society & Media, first gave a good introduction to the current work programme and the current open call.
Then he passed the words to the four NCP's of Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia who concentrated more on the practical aspects of submitting proposals. Together they had to manage a lot of questions of the audience.

The panel on the status and the trends in Central Europe produced a lot differences in the viewpoints. Representatives from Austria, Hungary and Slovenia also represented the private firms, public authorities and chambers of commerce. Despite of these differences - the views were not so much diverging as you might suppose. First there seems to be a lack of national strategies, but secondly everybody including the audience was looking for a European strategy in this area.

The conference closed with the invitation to use the new service on the project-website - the calendar of conferences - to post content-related events in Central Europe.
A brief outlook on the upcoming 4th - and probably last - event of the Initiative "Preparing for eContentplus" - the Orientation- and Matching Days on Digital Libraries - Cultural Content to take place on 1st and 2nd February 2007 in Vienna, Austria.

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