Web service for educational projects

Keywords Education, Project management, Internet

A Web service has been launched for educational projects under the European Commission's Information Society programme.

Promoting Awareness and Communication Technologies in Education (PROACTE) has been designed to give users immediate access to information about educational technologies and research across Europe.

PROACTE's main aim is to encourage dialogue between projects and participants. The site contains information on projects selected under the Information Society programme in the field of educational technologies and highlights best practice and ideas for co-operation. There is also a weekly news service covering key European developments in education technologies and research, as well as feature articles on research from around the world.

Among the projects supported under the Information Technology programme are:open platforms and tools for personalized learning; the flexible university;advanced training systems; the school of tomorrow; the learning citizen; and trials and best practice addressing advanced solutions for on-the-job training in small and medium-sized firms.

The Web site can be seen at http://www.proacte.com/Further information is available from PROACTE, 13b avenue de Tervuren, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium. Tel: +32 2 743 8949; Fax: +32 2 732 7111.