CEENet Projects and Activities CEE Virtual University and other re-training projects

1. CEENet Projects and Activities • CEE Virtual University • and other re-training projects • Chisinau, 9 October, 2004 • Jacek Gajewski

2. What is CEENet? • CEENet • Central and Eastern European Networking Association is an international non-profit association of 24 national organizations from CEE and NIS countries, which focus on academic, research and educational computer networking.

3. CEENet Educational Activities • CEENet organizes workshops on: • Network Policy (’97,99,01,03) • Network Managerial Methods (98, 00, 02, 04) • Network Technology (95, 96, …02,04) • Distance Education (E-course Incubator, 01)

4. CEENet Potential • Human network and knowledge base • 24+ NRENs with their staff • 30+ lecturers in all aspects of networking • 20+ course designers and tutors for face to face and distance teaching. • 10 years of experience in logistic and management of training events in ICT • 4 years of experience with distance education – from design to running courses • 600+ former students, often in key positions

5. Past CEENet Projects • CEENetparticipated in several international ICT projects funded by EC, NATO, OSI, UNDP etc., e.g. • @DULINE - Two e-courses have been created, tested and evaluated: • Course Design Course (for e-designers) • Online Tutoring Course (for e-tutors) • Produced by experts from 8 countries (including AM, EE, LT, PL, SK, UA), translated into 7languages, run with ca. 140 students. • ANTITESYS – Master studies in embedded systems design (ca. 15 students from AM, BG, EE, GE, LT, PL, RO,TR)

6. Possible Future Projects(Applications sent to IST 3rd call) • - EuroNGN - CA, which aims at building and co-ordinating the vision of next generation networks (CH, UK, CEENet, SI, CZ, SK, BG, RO) • - EuroLink – SSA, creation of platforms, over which Europe/world-wide distributed conferences and demonstrations will be organized (ES, CH, BE, SI, CEENet) • - CLOSER– see talk of Miroslaw Maj

7. Possible Future Projects(Applications being prepared) • NN (Grundtvig)– creation of an e-course for e-course organizers/administrators. @DULINE follow-up, limited consortium extention possibility. • PTOLEMEE (Grundtvig) – creation of e-course methodology for remote re-training of ICT engineers in SMEs (e.g. in NRENs). Partners are UNI-Milano, SONEMA, CEENet, Charite(?), 3-4 partners still needed. • E-JOURNAL – see talk by A. Mendkovitch

8. Possible Future Projects(Applications being discussed) • NN – CA, Extension of an existing SEE/Mediterranean Telemedicine Centres Network to CEE region. Coordinated by Charite (Berlin). CEENet has been asked to look for partners, ideally academy clinics with telemedicine experience. Please send: name of the organization, contact person + e-mail.

9. Possible Future Projects(Applications being discussed) • CEE VU(CEE Virtual University) – will be an association of CEE Technical Universities, who want to offer re-training e-courses in: • quickly changing technology fields, e.g. ICT • where they represent high world level. • Provisional association created 1.10.2004 in Kiev by KPI, TUs of Sofia, Brno, Tallinn, Kaunas, Bucharest, Yerevan, Lviv, Donetsk, Charkov, MoE-UA, CEENet and UNESCO. Close cooperation with NET-UNO (34 Italian TUs).

10. Possible Future Projects(Applications being discussed) • CEE VUasked CEENet to look for: • technical universities with e-learning experience and at least one speciality at top world level (please send name + contact person) • for countries, where association of legal bodies is allowed by law and cost/administration overhead is low.

11. Thank you for your attention • Questions? • Suggestions to: secretary@ceenet.org