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ELISALEIPZIG Annual Conference

Presentation

Leipzig, October 24, 2006

Hatzakis IliasGRNET

Tel. +30 210 [email protected]

Leipzig, 24 October 2006

Project Snapshot

Project name: e-Learning for Improving access to Infomation Society for SMEs in the SEE

Project Acronym: ELISA Duration: 27 months Total Budget: 1.252.223,28 €

http://www.elisa-project.net


The general idea

The creation of a dynamic set of tools (human, technical, infrastructural, organizational) that can be used by policy makers or adequate bodies in order to implement policies that improve the ICT usage at local SMEs

-In the future: no competitive

business outside the electronic universe

-The use of internet in the SEE is very

low

- Simple, quick, flexible and low cost

policy measures have to uptaken as soon as possible.

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What did we already have at the starting

point?

The ongoing collaboration between National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in SE Europe through infrastructural development projects like SEEREN (www.seeren.org), SEEREN2 (www.seeren2.org) and SEE-GRID (www.see-grid.org). Networks that require applications and usage.

The existing resources at the local parthers: abundant talent, high level IT skilled graduates (that usually fall to the brain drain phenomenon)

The high political impact of local partners with policy makers The success of the Goonline project in Greece (www.go-online.gr)

that emerged from the collaboration between the academic and the business community

The long experience of the partners in developing national targeted strategies in various fields, in implementing SME training actions, in building e-learning platforms and methodologies.

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http://www.seeren.org/

http://www.seeren2.org/

http://www.see-grid.org/


E-learning tech (SYSTEMA)

Network management (GRNET)

ERDF PARTNERS

BC PARTNERS

NRENS

- Political impact- Network

management- Infrastructure

- Talent

SMERS

- Political impact- SME training

-Dissemination - IT clusters

- Policy measures

Partner structure concept

E-business training (GRNET)

E-learning methodologies (FUB, UOM)

INIMAMARNETAMREJ

ISTF

SMEAMASITJURITSAITC


ELISA AIMS at…

…improving the access to knowledge and the information society of SMEs in South-East

Europe, through close cooperation of academic and business communities at a

transnational level, by transferring EU best practice training know-how and by developing

national training strategies. Emphasis is given to SMEs from rural and distant areas

in Albania, FYROM, Bulgaria and Serbia (beneficiary countries).


Target groups

FINAL SMEs in the beneficiary countries. Policy Makers in the ICT field.

INTERMEDIARY Managers and personnel inside the SME representative

organizations. Managers and researchers inside the Universities and the

National Research and Education Networks,

PARALLEL ICT companies that specialize in e-learning technologies.

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ICT Training Strategies

Train the Tutors and SMEs

Training Content

e-Learning Platform

Project Coordination and Administration

Elisa-Content

Go-online.grInternetoekonomie.org

Professors teleteaching/preparing Tutors via LMS

6 Tutors perbeneficiary Country

Each Tutor trains 5 SMEsfor 10 hours face-to-faceat Labs of NRENs using LMS

Elisa-LMS

Evaluation oftraining

ICT trainingstrategies report

Policy Makers Workshops

WP1

WP3

WP4

Dissemination Actions (Communication, Portal and Seminars)/ Potential synergies with related projectsWP5

WP6

time

Overview Workpackages

WP2

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+ e-business 40.000 survival kits

H323


The web portal

Functions as:

- A 6-language transparent image of the sum of activities and achievements

- A space for collaboration between partners

- A tool for dynamic project management

- A news feeder for all interested parts

- An access to the e-learning area

www.elisa-project.net


The e-business training content

Aims at:

- Developing IT skills of professionals in local SMEs- Giving practical advice and information on the current status of INTERNET in the country - Guiding the innovators who wish to do business over the internet

- + (for tutors): providing didactic guidelines/ pedagogical principles


The e-business training content consists of:

SECTION 1: Basic IT knowledge for business purposes - Using the internet- basic skills

- Creating websites

SECTION 2: Introduction to e-business– e-business environment– e-business – business to consumer (B2C)– e-business – business to business (B2B)– e-business (the digital enterprise)

SECTION 3: Entrepreneurship on the internet– How to start a business on the internet– Web-marketing– Evaluation of your business on the internet– Internationalization of activities – Customer relationship management – e-business in the agricultural sector

On-line tests for all sections

A guide for SMEs to make e-business plans

Reports on the digital economy


The e-learning platform

- State of the art of open source LMS- Evaluation- Selection - Technical and Functional Requirements- Phase1 of development- Tests- and Phase2 of development


The ELISA e-learning platform

- Easy-to-use- Highly interactive Multilingual (English,

Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Albanian)

Various spaces (professors’, tutors’, pupils’, SMEs’, administrator’s, partners’ etc.)

User guide


The first TELE-SEMINAR

Athens Belgrade 6 professors, 6 tutors, 2

coordinators Tele-education rooms Tele-conferencing

technologies (via H.323) Certification of tutors by

FUB


The e-learning platform


The “survival kit”


The e-business “survival kit”

- 10.000 items per country

- CD-ROM +Booklet+Brochures


NEED FOR FUTURE COOPERATION

Strong interest for the implementation of the ELISA model in 3 other countries (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Romania).

Raise of awareness of policy makers on the importance of access to knowledge and information society for SMEs more and larger scale measures/ opportunities in the area

Adoption of e-learning as a sustainable training practice, in more fields.


Overall conclusions

Use existing experience and tools Leverage synergies between related

projects Involve all possible stakeholders (public

administration, academy, business)

Intensive but “friendly” management/ be proactive/ dismantle difficult situations by focusing always on the solution

Constant motivation/ non-finance is a big implementation problem

Use marketing principles/ dissemination at all phases/ levels

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