WP2 - ECOLEAD

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Mitja Jermol Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI)
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FOCUS
Significant contribution to increasing both the
public knowledge and the actual implantation of
collaborative networks in the society.

• Platform Virtual Learning Community (VLC) to
  support knowledge transfer by combining
• Traditional training workshops, summer schools
• E-Training distance learning, self-learning
  (repositories)
• VO based training VO for training
• training activities with other complement
  projects,
• support activities.
• Content Main Actions
• European training program on CNO,
• training activities and support materials,
• e-learning training modules and repositories,

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VLC aims

• Joining experts, researchers, business decision
  members, engineers, industry representatives,
  students, scholars, interested parties from the
  public sector and general public to
• share and create new knowledge,
• share experiences and lessons learned and
• support new scientific discipline on CNO,
• motivating, supporting and fostering the
  establishment of a community of interested
  organizations, groups and individuals locally and
  cross-border trough Europe
• building a CNO creativity crossroad one-stop-shop
  entry point
• establishing a learning environment to support
  knowledge transfer
• between ECOLEAD project members,
• from the community to ECOLEAD and
• from ECOLEAD to the community,
• disseminating the project results by
• promoting the results to wider community and
  sustainable development after the ECOLEAD EU
  funding period,
• testing and approving the generated results in
  ECOLEAD in the wider community.

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VLC evolution
EVOLUTION STEPS Quality training materials and
training services Attractive community members
(stars) Dynamic, sustainable, evolving
SETUP

• Step 1 (M0-M24)
• Step 2 (M24-M48)
• Step 3 (M36-M48)

PROMOTION
BUSINESS

• STRATEGY
• Invitation based community
• Connections to similar initiatives and training
  organisations redistributed portal
• Open network

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VLC entry page (http//seminars.ijs.si/ecolead)
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Members level
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ECOLEAD VLC Current content set

• 76 videos for internal training 32 tutorials
  suitable for external training
• 32 courses in the form of prepared ppt
  presentations
• Reference pictures that can be used to prepare
  training courses
• Repository of scientific papers - references
• Documents public deliverables and prepared
  documents for fast training and informing

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Workshop online repository (http//seminars.ijs.s
i/ecolead)

• ECOLEAD kick-off meeting in Helsinki 2004,
• WP2, WP5 meeting in Seville 2004,
• WP5 meeting in Paris 2004,
• PRO-VE 04 conference in Toulouse 2004,
• Basys 04 conference in Vienna 2004,
• Antwerp internal workshop on Self-organisation,
  chaos, complexity systems and trust networks 2004
• First technical meeting in Rome 2004
• Porto internal workshop on Formal theory, Graph
  theory, Semiotics and ontology engineering 2005
• Nova Gorica industry training workshop 2005

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Workshop online repository
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EU CNO curriculum

• MOTIVATION. Practical examples of collaborative
  networks. Discussion of the usefulness / benefits
  and current limitations of CNOs.
• BASIC CONCEPTS. Categories of CNOs. Life cycle.
  Actors and roles.
• VO BREEDING ENVIRONMENT. Structure, actors and
  roles, life cycle functionality. Competencies and
  assets. Value systems, performance metrics,
  Management functionalities. Brokerage and VO
  creation. Trust establishment mechanisms.
• VO MANAGEMENT. Concepts, organizational models
  and operational rules. Life cycle.
  Functionalities. Performance measurement and
  benefits analysis.
• PROFESSIONAL VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES. Concepts and
  organizational models. Virtual teams. Actors and
  roles. Life cycle. Functionalities. Social
  networks.
• COORDINATION. Distributed business process
  modeling. Ad-hoc collaboration and problem
  solving. Workflow. Modeling. Supervision.
• INFORMATION/KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
• Federated /distributed information management.
  Information/knowledge modeling. Ontology
  engineering. Federated information retrieval.
  Advanced user assisting tools.
• ICT INFRASTRUCTURES. Computer networks basics.
  Base Internet technologies. Ubiquitous computing.
  Security. Distributed information management.
  Knowledge management. Services management. Web
  technology. Grid technology.
• COLLABORATIVE SPACES. Collaborative working and
  sharing. Collaborative problem solving and
  advanced supporting functionalities.
• NON-TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES. Social, ethical,
  legal, and organizational issues.
• e-COMMERCE AND e-MARKETS. Concepts and actors.
  Portals. Negotiation. CRM. Logistics.
• BUSINESS PERSPECTIVES. Business models. Value
  systems. Applications to industry and services,
  government, etc.

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Training programs
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Training program for Newcomers
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Methodology

• Introductionary workshop (this one)
• Self-learning courses (7 chapters with 19
  courses)
• Additional training courses (traditional
  workshops or self-learning)
• according to the scenario needs

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Training program for newcomers
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Training program for newcomers
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Training program for multipliers
7 short courses for self-learning
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1st ECOLEAD Summer school
28-30 September 2006, Helsinki, Finland
http//labe.felk.cvut.cz/eco-summerschool/