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EU-US Breakout Group Instructions (eLearning) Steering Group

The breakouts will be in three areas comprising the three working groups of the above Steering Group. These are the working groups in: Schools of Tomorrow, eLearning Futures (earlier known as telelearning), and Selflearning for Work (prevously known as Lifelong Learning including The Learning Citizen). Each of these groups are to consider the following items and address each appropriately. Each working group is free to address any additional items they deem appropriate.

These items are:

  • Domain of interest
  • Characteristics of the domain in both the EU and US. These characteristics should include both research and market issues.
  • Examples of projects in these domains including EU national, EU, and US projects.
  • US programmes in the context of NSF initiatives
  • EU programmes in the context of EU areas and action items
  • Example topics for Research, Development, Demonstration, Takeup (SBIR for NSF), and Suppport (Infrastructure for NSF) activities. The groups should concentrate on the Research activities.
  • Rationale for joint activities identifying similarities, complementarities, and added values
  • Methods for accomplishing worthwhile activities - e.g. what types of projects will be appropriate.
  • Road Map for consortia building
  • Other appropriate activities: seminars, workshops, studies, expert exchanges)
  • Development of Web sites to support the activities.

The three Domains of Co-operation are:

 

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