WP 7

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WP 7 Report on activities at general meeting
Mitja Jermol Jozef Stefan Institute mitja.jermol_at_i
js.si
1st Technical meeting Rome, 11 january 2005
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OBJECTIVES SCOPE
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.
• Content Main Actions
• European training program on CNO,
• training activities and support materials,
• e-learning training modules and repositories,
• support activities.

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RELATIONSHIPS TO OTHER WPs
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EXTERNAL TRENDS

• General trends
• Training as one of the constituting processes in
  Knowledge Management (Knowledge transfer vs.
  Knowledge construction)
• Creativity crossroads (knowledge sharing vs.
  IPR)
• Pedagogical trends
• Collaboration in training (Active vs. Passive)
• Process based training vs. the content based
  training
• Personalisation user centred training vs. group
  adapted training
• Behaviouralsocial vs. Cognitive-technical based
  didactical concepts
• Technical trends
• ICT based training vs. traditional training
• Sinhrone vs. asynhrone communications
• CNO domain training trends
• wide area with dispersed expertise
• combining conceptual, managerial, technical and
  social components
• the development of the discipline is still in the
  starting phase

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CREATING IMPACT WITH THE TRAINING ACTIVITIES

• Preparing a proposal for a reference curricula on
  the CNO
• Becoming one of the reference training
  communities on the CNO by providing high quality
  training services from the most relevant
  authorities in the field
• Building awareness of the CNO in the research,
  business and general society
• Influencing CNO interrelated domains
• Consolidating with the other relevant initiatives
  on CNO

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AIMED INNOVATION

• Virtual Learning Community based on Personalized
  Knowledge Transfer
• Personalised knowledge transfer model and
  simplified implementation in ECOLEAD VLC
• Implementation of the PVC operation principles in
  the VLC training domain
• European training program on CNO
• Joining disciplines covering a complex CNO domain
• Combining traditional and e-learning
  methodologies, concepts and solutions
• Distributed training supported by VO for training

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STRATEGIC KEY RESULTS
Virtual Learning Community based on Personalized
Knowledge Transfer
Key
Strategic
Continuous training (internal, external)
Operational community working after the project
European training program on CNO
Key
Strategic
Reference curricula on CNO
Program structure, methodologies and
implementation
Key training events
Key
Strategic
1st and 2nd ECOLEAD Summer School
Regular ECOLEAD Summer Schools
Industry training and CNO setup workshops
A reference model for CNO setup
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VIRTUAL LEARNING COMMUNITY STRATEGY - WISH
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SCHEDULE WP7 STRUCTURE
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RESULTS DELIVERABLES
D71.1 - Functional VLC and the ECOLEAD Training
Website, Month 18, PU D71.2 - A study of VO, VBE
and PVC curricula, Month 12, PU D71.3 Workshop
on-line repository, Month 18, PU

• CP1 (M 6)
• PKT model for VLC,
• first set of internal workshops
• M1 (M 12)
• On-line repository
• a first set of educational modules
• VLC established and in testing phase,
• second set of internal workshops organised
• CP2 (M 18)
• Fully functional VLC,
• two DL courses,
• third set of internal
• the first set of external workshops organised,
• first summer school finished

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PROGRESS TOWARDS THE GOALS
ECOLEAD VLC development Personalised knowledge
transfer developed Training site
established Some internal training material
available Training events First summer school
scheduled First industry workshop in
preparation First set of the internal training
events/contents proposed European program on
CNO A draft of the study of VO, VBE and PVC
curricula performed Support activities Internal
training meetings scheduled for 6-12M First
training newsletter scheduled for end of November
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VIRTUAL LEARNING COMMUNITY WHAT IS IT?

• (PV)Community supporting the knowledge transfer
  (learning) between community members (knowledge
  providers and knowledge seekers), community and
  the environment by combining traditional and new
  media/events.
• Training content, methods, tools, media
• Community members
• Organisation, rules, supporting system

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VIRTUAL LEARNING COMMUNITY Guaranty for success

• EVOLUTION STEPS
• High quality training materials and training
  services
• Step 1
• Attractive community members (stars)
• Step 2
• Dynamic, sustainable, evolving
• Step 3

SETUP
PROMOTION
BUSINESS
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ECOLEAD Virtual Learning Community Methodology
VLC operational principles
A reference theoretical model of PKT
A reference theoretical model of VLC
Traditional training
ICT based training
Informing
ECOLEAD VLC with PKT instantiation
Content and events management
Support services
Promotion
Tutoring
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ECOLEAD Virtual Learning Community User groups
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ECOLEAD Virtual Learning Community VLC services

• Training services
• Traditional training events (workshops, training
  meetings, tutorials, summer schools)
• ICT based training (self-learning, distance
  learning)
• Reach repository of high quality training
  materials links (scientific papers, textual
  documents, picture, video, courses)
• Community services
• Catalogue of existing training programs
• Community management
• Communication (forums,
• Teachers support (content exchange) and courses
  building
• Support services
• Alerts, info on CNO related RD events
• Radar services
• Extensive search

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ECOLEAD Virtual Learning Community Personalized
knowledge transfer model
Channels fitting the target
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ECOLEAD Virtual Learning Community PKT
implementation in ECOLEAD VLC
Training content
Training event
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ECOLEAD Virtual Learning Community VLC training
Web site (Step 1)
repository of contents
repository of pictures
repository of videos
distance learning courses
in textual form
VLC news
on
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line repository of
scientific papers
forum
editors comments
radar services
ECOLEAD training news
CNO tree
structured ontology
CNO dictionary
hot topics
search
new member
login
free content (promotion)
latest news
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ECOLEAD Virtual Learning Community Developing
plan (Step 2)
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ECOLEAD Virtual Learning Community ICT
infrastructure
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ECOLEAD Virtual Learning Community Organisation
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ECOLEAD Virtual Learning Community What we want
to achieve?
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First ECOLEAD summer school Acompanying event in
Knowledge Discovery Summer School
http//ct3.ijs.si/acai05
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First ECOLEAD summer school Proposed preliminary
program
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First ECOLEAD industry workshop Joint WP7 WP8
activity?

• The First ECOLEAD Industry Workshop
• Nova Gorica (SLO)/Gorizia (I), May 2005
• The goals are to
• promote ECOLEAD project, idea, strategy and
  results,
• helping to start-up regional VBE development by
• disseminating the best practices of existing VBE
  (VF, ITESM,...),
• connecting local and mainly nationally based
  CNOs (clusters in Slovenia, Italy, Croatia) in a
  regional VBE
• creating an impact to regional SMEs, regional and
  national government bodies and local communities,
  
• test a model for VBE creation

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First ECOLEAD industry workshop Preliminary
program
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European training program on CNO Methodology
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European training program on CNO Analysis
1. Preliminary analysis of existing courses and
their curricula
2. Extensive survey as a joint work
3. Further information collection based on most
interesting cases found in previous steps
4. Preparation of first version of curriculum in
CNOs
Sample of 66 institution (5 continents) from top
500 World Universities 42 answered
Uninova UFSC
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European training program on CNO Results
Question 1 - Is there a dedicated discipline on
CNO in your Institution?
Uninova UFSC
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European training program on CNO Results
Question 2 - Do you consider the concepts in the
CNO area already consolidated?
Uninova UFSC
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European training program on CNO Results
Question 3 - In your opinion, is it relevant for
the professionals of today the systematic
teaching of CNO?
Uninova UFSC
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European training program on CNO Results
Question 4 - In your opinion, which subjects
should be included in a CNO basic discipline?




- Reference Models and Concepts and
Definitions belong to Theoretical
Foundations. The separation from the main topics
was made, in order to emphasize their importance.
Uninova UFSC
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European training program on CNO Results
Question 5 - In your opinion, which course(s)
should teach CNO disciplines?
Uninova UFSC
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CNO training content framework
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CNO training content skeleton Newcomers
Basic Additional Specific
Text Slides Pictures Videos Links Papers

• Abstract Summary
• Introduction
• Why we are doing RD in CNO?
• Why do we need this? Innovation
• What problems we are trying to solve?
• CNO and related concepts
• External trends
• ECOLEAD
• What is it? aims, mission, goals, strategic
  results
• Main challenges
• Applications
• Structure of the project, partners and roles
• History, developments and state of the art
  results
• Case studies success stories, lessons learned
• What do we want, what do we offer?

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CNO training content framework Content blocks
CNO basics WP5 CNO discipline CNO basic
principles CNO Framework Current and Future
research in CNO VO BREEDING ENVIRONMENT
WP2 VBE basics VBE reference framework
(concepts, models, tools) VBE management
system VO creation framework DYNAMIC VO
MANAGEMENT SUPPORT WP3 VO basics Collaborative
distributed business process models VO
performance measurement assessment
mechanisms VO inheritance management Generic VO
e-services PROFESSIONAL VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
WP4 PVC basics PVC collaboration models and
social forms Business models for PVC Advanced
collaboration space platform Collaborative
problem solving environment ICT INFRASTRUCTURE
FOR COLLABORATION WP6 ICT basics Reference
architecture principles Business models for
collaboration infrastructure Dynamic multi-level
security framework Plug play infrastructure
for collaboration ROADMAPPING ON COLLABORATIVE
NETWORKS WP5 THEORETICAL FOUNDATION FOR
COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS WP5 Formal modeling
foundation Reference models for CNOs Soft
engineering models
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Support activities Training Newsletter ECOLEAD
Perceptor
articles, papers
ECOELAD links
announcements
meet the ECOLEADers
important
interview with the expert
on-line consultant
picture of the month
relevant links
UFSC
First release scheduled for the end of November
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Support activities Training press conferences
plan for 2005

• April 2005, Florianopolis / Brazil (GM)
• June 2005, Munich / Germany (ICE)
• July 2005, Prague / Czech Republic (IFAC)
• September 2005, Valencia / Spain (Pro-VE)
• Ecolead GM 2005
• Basys, 2005.

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Support activities Training meetings

• (Info) training general and technical meetings
  (general event)
• (Work) training working meetings between WPs
  (additional event)
• (Expert) training inviting internal (external)
  experts from other WPs to WP meeting (specific
  event)
• Methodology under development

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Partners involvement
T71.1 - Setting up the ECOLEAD VLC (JSI, CTU,
Certicon, UFSC) T71.2 - Managing the ECOLEAD
VLC (JSI, CTU) T71.3 - Organization of annual
training ECOLEAD meetings (BIBA,
Logica) T71.4 - Organization of the European
training program on Virtual Organizations
(Uninova, Uva, UFSC) T71.5 - Organization of
internal educational events of ECOLEAD partners
(CTU, Certicon, BIBA) T71.6 Promotional and
other dissemination activities (UFSC, CTU,
JSI) Members of a PC (UvA) WP2, (BIBA) WP3,
(AIESEC) WP4, (Uninova) WP5, (UFSC) WP6,
(Logica) WP8, (CTU), (JSI)
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RELATIONSHIPS TO OTHER WPs
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Training activities detected dificulties

• VLC establishment
• Quality training content how to achieve?
• Critical mass of the content, members - how to
  get?
• Q how to get the continuous inflow of the
  quality content/events
• WP7 integration role in the project
• Importance vs. scope
• Continuous scanning of the project results,
  developments and achievements,
• Devoted time/effort to training
• Joint effort
• Between WPs
• Between complement projects

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NEXT STEPS
PKT model first version final, (April
05), functional ECOLEAD Training Web site, (April
05), 1st summer school, (July 05), 1st industry
workshop and the second internal training
workshop (May 05), Prepared course for newcomers
(May 05) A study of VO, VBE and PVC curricula,
(April 05), Internal training program based on WP
needs and preferences, (Feb 05),
Milestone 1

• A study of VO, VBE and PVC Curricula (D71.2)
• On-line repository of the training materials
• The first set of educational modules
• VLC established in testing phase
• Traditional internal workshops