ISOLDE kick-off meeting

The new ISOLDE project held its kick-off meeting on the premises of EFECOT, the European Federation for the Education of Travelling Communities, on the 11th of March. ISOLDE is a Technologies for Learning project partially funded by the Minerva Action under Socrates II (2000-2007) which seeks to promote European co-operation in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education.

The aim of ISOLDE is to set up an information system that will provide education providers with access to and advice on teaching and learning services and systems that are particularly suited to interrupted or excluded learners from travelling families at pre-school and compulsory school level.
The target group are teachers, administrators, public servants and others who are responsible for meeting the educational needs of school and pre-school level learners in the UK, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Germany and Bulgaria. EFECOT would like to develop the system further with other countries once it is created in order to make a comprehensive offer to all members. The end beneficiaries are the travelling families who will enjoy an improved and more comprehensive educational offer.

The kick-off meeting was attended by representatives from the following partners:

EFECOT (BE)

ATiT (Audiovisual Technology, Informatics and Telecommunications) (BE)

the Ministry of Culture and Sport in Baden-Württemberg in Germany (DE)

the Académie de Montpellier/CEFISEM (FR)

COSPE (Cooperazione per lo Sviluppo dei Paesi Emergenti) (IT)

SRS (Stichting Rijdende School) (NL)

CEC TU-Varna (Continuous and Distance Education Centre in Technical University of Varna) (BU)

The partnership expects the project to be finished by the end of January 2004 when the outcome will consist of a system that will integrate information about appropriate technical and pedagogical approaches, especially suited for the target group.

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