Information Society Technologies Programme MLearning in the IST programme

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Information Society TechnologiesProgrammeM-Le
arning in the IST programme
Joseph Bremer Multimedia Applications for
Education and Training DG INFORMATION SOCIETY
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Agenda

• A case for M-Learning
• Mobile communications challenges and
  opportunities
• Education Training in the IST programme
• Opportunities for M-Learning

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The Bases for M-Learning
Political
Technological
Business
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DG Information Society

• Objectives
• Bring every citizen, school, business and
  administration on-line - quickly
• Create a digitally literate and entrepreneurial
  Europe
• Ensure an inclusive information society

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DG Information Society

• Relevant e-learning priority actions
• European youth into the digital age
• Working in a knowledge-based economy
• Faster Internet for researchers and students

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Current challenges - mobile communications

• Global downward trend in ICT, internet and
  telecom stocks
• High 3G license costs fragmentation of
  licensing conditions
• Market for new mobile applications services
  over 2.5G and 3G wireless networks remains
  largely untested

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Action to be taken

• Facilitating the deployment of 3G networks under
  current legislation
• Getting the future regulatory framework right
• Action in support of future digital mobile
  applications services

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IST Programme Education and Training
IST PROGRAMME Multimedia Applications for
Education and Training
1999 / 2000 Action Lines 5 Proposals
evaluated 430 Proposed for Funding
66 Total Proposed Funding 83 MEuro
II FP - DELTA Expl Action 20 MEuro III - IV FP
TAP-ET 60 MEuro IV FP - MME-TF 49 MEuro
2001 Action Lines 3 Provisional Budget
47 MEuro
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IST Programme Education and Training The
Vision
Developing the European Learning Infrastructure
School of Tomorrow
Self Learning for Work
Flexible University
eLearning for European Youth in the Digital Age
e-learning interoperable Tools and Services and
High Quality Content
Advanced Training Systems
The Learning Citizen
eLearning Futures
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IST Roadmap 2001
Call 7bis
Call 7
Call 8
Deadline 17 October 2001
Deadline 4 December 2001
Deadline 15 February 2002
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E-Learning for European Youth
Assist the youth to better live in the digital
age
by bringing together actors of many different
fields to realise several large-scale experiments
of novel eLearning services for schools and
higher education
by improving broadband access to ICT based
learning with seamless access to education
content across a range of access infrastructures,
including 3G mobile
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Call 7bis Objective of the call

• to offer the mobile sector actors an opportunity
  to
• jointly develop, test and validate, on a
  pan-European scale, a number of innovative (and
  open) multimedia mobile services and applications
  based on 2,5G (GPRS) and 3G (UMTS) technologies
• validate key interoperability issues between
  different networks and services
• consider the migration from IPv4 to IPv6 at
  technological and service levels

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possible services applications

• location-based, personalised and
  context-sensitive services
• including navigation and guidance (e.g. on-board
  ambient intelligence systems), traffic and
  traveller information (personal locator, map
  download, tourist guides, context-sensitive
  information services etc.), logistics, and
  virtual presence
• m-commerce/m-business and mobile work
  applications and services
• m-shopping, ticketing, m-payment, m-banking,
  advertising, automated tolling, fleet and mobile
  assets management, remote diagnostics and
  maintenance, mobile office applications,
  micro-payments
• mobile enter-/info-tainment, mobile learning,
  mobile access to cultural heritage and
  m-advertising
• cultural aspects, news, weather forecasts,
  audio/video streaming, interactive games,
  betting, e-books,
• emergency assistance services and mobile health
  applications and services
• emergency services, vital constants follow up,
  prevention, remote assistance and diagnostic and
  m-prescriptions

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main features

• trials should involve an appropriate number of
  main actors from at least two different
  countries, which may include
• service and application providers (e.g. current
  developers of internet applications on fixed
  lines)
• content providers and aggregators (e.g.
  publishers, sport associations, etc. compatibly
  with IPR issues)
• operators and manufacturers (terminal and
  platform suppliers)
• financial institutions, research labs and
  universities as well as where appropriate public
  and regulatory authorities
• users would also be welcome in any proposal
  (involved either by the operator or by the
  service provider)
• Disseminate interim results achieved at regular
  intervals such as three to four months
• Exploit synergies with existing industry
  initiatives

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Trials (take-up measures)

• the development work within a Trial is restricted
  to the adaptation, fine-tuning, customisation and
  improvement of already available methods and
  technologies towards the users needs
• evaluation of the technological and economic
  benefits of the innovative use of the technology
• Funding
• up to 100 for Personnel and Other Costs
• up to 50 for Equipment, Consumables, Travel,
  Computing, Subcontracting
• 0 for overheads and IPR protection

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in summary call 7bis for trials of new 2.5-3G
applications and services

• to ensure a coherent and harmonized development
  of successful services and applications in Europe
• flexible to match market conditions and timings,
  with short duration (typically 18 months or less)
  
• total budget around 25 M
• deadline for receipt 4 December 2001, 5 PM

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IST2002 - V.1.1 CPA1 (RTD) Mobile applications
and services (Call 8, publication foreseen on 15
November 2001)

• Objectives To develop user friendly,
  pan-European applications and services, based on
  leading-edge mobile and wireless technologies,
  including 3G mobile systems and wireless LANs, in
  the framework of a transition from IPv4 to IPv6
  based service provisioning.
• Focus on integrated solutions combining advanced
  mobile and wireless technologies with
  multi-sensorial interfacing techniques to provide
  innovative value added services and applications.
  Inter-working and inter-operability of different
  solutions (e.g. 3G and W-LAN) in order to provide
  the most convenient and efficient service
  provision as a function of the user profile,
  which may include the user location.
• Possible applications and services include but
  are not limited to
• Secure m-commerce/m-business and mobile work
• Mobile entertainment, streaming (also in
  combination with compatible broadcasting
  techniques), mobile learning
• location based, personalised and
  context-sensitive services
• Emergency assistance services and Mobile health
  applications and services

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