1. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 1 UNITE Project - Unified eLearning environment for the school: General objectives and Riga 3rd Secondary School’s Case Study

2. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 2 Sources used UNITE documentation UNITE portal Annual report

3. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 3 Presentation structure Project’s Data Preconditions Goal & Objectives Consortium Network of Schools Workpackages Workpackages’ dependences Workpackage structure Additional information

4. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 4 Project’s Data Programme: FP6 Call : IST Call 4 Strategic Objective : –2.4.13 Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe Type of Project : STREP Duration : 30 months Start : 01.02.2006 Finish : 31.07.2008

5. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 5 Preconditions Source: UNITE documentation

6. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 6 Goal and Objectives Goal: –to contribute to the improvement of European-wide education in secondary schools based on common, innovative principles in technology, in pedagogy, and in learning scenarios, tested by a well- defined validation framework Objectives –to allow the daily use of the UNITE platform in the schools’ classrooms –to provide a solid theory for the UNITE eLearning scenarios –to enhance the learning experience by the use of ICT Source: UNITE Annual report

7. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 7 The consortium (first part) Participant organisation name Part. Shortname Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (Germany)Fh-IGD Extreme Media Solutions Ltd. (Greece)EMS Tribal Education and Technology (UK)CTAD Ellinogermaniki Agogi S.A. (Greece)EA Landesinitiative Neue Kommunikationswege Mecklenburg- Vorpommern e.V (Germany) LiNK Centre of Information Society Technologies (Bulgaria)CIST

8. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 8 The consortium (continued) Participant organisation name Part. Shortname University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences (Slovenia) UL-FSS Centre of Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia (UK) CARE Kaunas University of Technology, Informatics Faculty (Lithuania) KTU Riga Technical University (Latvia)RTU University of Cyprus (Cyprus)UCY University of Malta, Faculty of Education (Malta)UoM University of Split, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Education (Croatia) UoS

9. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 9 The consortium (whole structure) IGDEMSCTADLiNKRTUCISTKTUCAREUCYUL-FSSUoSEAUoM UNITE platform Riga 3. sec. school GESŠ Trbovlje BSEE KE VI Linn Grove 134 school National High School Elementary s. Spinut Margaret Mortimer Stella Maris KTU Gym The English School RTU UNITE platform

10. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 10 UNITE Consortium - geography Source: UNITE portal

11. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 11 Workpackages Source: UNITE documentation WPWP Name WP01State of the art analysis and User Requirements WP02/03UNITE technical platform WP04Pedagogical framework WP05UNITE eLearning scenarios WP06Network of schools WP07Validation WP08Socio-economic evaluation WP09Dissemination WP10Exploitation plan WP11Project management

12. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 12 Workpackages’ dependences Source: UNITE documentation WP4 WP6 WP7 WP10 WP5 WP8 WP2/3 WP1 WP9/11

13. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 13 Work package structure WP2 WP3 WP4 WP7 WP8 WP6 WP 9,10 WP1 WP5 Source: UNITE Annual report

14. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 14 UNITE portal www.unite-ist.orgwww.unite-ist.org

15. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 15 Conclusions UNITE combines: –technical expertise in the areas of eLearning and mobile learning –pedagogical expertise in the areas of group learning and exploratory learning –expertise in the conceptualization of re-usable eLearning content and the creation of Europe-wide eLearning repositories –access to a wide range of different types of schools all over Europe –advanced methods of continuous validation and socio-economic evaluation Source: UNITE Annual report

16. 18th of April 2007, RigaWorkshop “Towards an Information Society in the Baltic States" 16 to be continued Riga 3. sec. school RTU UNITE platform