1. EastWeb (Asia-Link Project) Building an integrated leading Euro-Asian higher education and research community in the field of the Semantic Web Ying Ding, Alice Carpentier

2. Project Data Duration of the project: 36 Months Starting date: March, 2006 Total Budget: 750KEURO for the whole project Members

3. Objectives The goal of this project is to build an integrated leading Euro-Asian high education and research community in the field of the Semantic Web.

4. Main workpackages Human resources development –Joint teaching and supervision of master and doctorate students –Integration and collaboration among senior and young faculty –Training the next generation of IT educators as well as of IT enterprises management Distance learning and knowledge management platform –To support current and future activities also after the end of the project Networking –Fostering the interaction among universities and companies in Europe and Asia in the field of the Semantic Web

5. Expected results Improve the current situation of the direct target groups Provide a sustainable way to reach indirect beneficiaries (Asian and European graduate students, young and senior researcher and enterprises in the large) Strengthen the joint collaboration between Europe and Asia

6. Dissemination Organizing annual Asian Semantic Web Conferences Setting up EASTWEB Portal Offering industrial training