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Dear partners,

Please find the call for participation to the next Virtual Competence Centre work shop. We hope the work shop is of your interest and we will see you in Villach. Please forward this mail also to colleagues who might be interested, too. Due to limited places, we would like to ask you to register in advance by sending a short mail with your name and organisation to prolearn@iao.fraunhofer.de.

For further details please see the the call for participation and the schedule. If you should have further questions please don´t hestitate to contact us.

Kindest regards, Alexander Karapidis Till Becker

*- Call for Participation - * *Joint Workshop “Industry meets research” with focus on Middle and Eastern Europe * FHG IAO Stuttgart, Germany and FH Kärnten (CTI) Villach, Austria *September 28, 2005, 8:30 – 13:30, Villach, Austria*

This work shop is designed as a joint work shop on the ICL conference. Invited to take part in are persons who act or are interested in the area of professional learning and are somehow linked to with Middle and Eastern Europe.

Persons wishing to participate in the work shop need to register for free by sending an E-Mail containing name and organisation one is working at. In order to ensure meaningful interaction and networking among all participants, attendance at the work shop will be limited. The attendance to the joint work shop is free.

Aim of the work shop is to bring together industry and research and to identify existing gaps and the requirements of the economy in the area of professional training. The work shop should furthermore serve as a platform for the an effective exchange between industry and research.

Benefits to participate and contribute to the workshop § New connections can be established and considerations of joint R&D activities can be made § Free access to the PROLEARN community § Initiate and enhance exchange between research and economy

We would like to ask all participants to upload this call for participation on their homepages in order to widespread the information.

*Schedule*

08:30 – 08.35 Welcome and aims of the workshop 08.35 – 09.55 Requirements in middle and eastern Europe in technology enhanced learning

Ø Professional training today and tomorrow – spotlight on international requirements and needs: Alexander Karapidis: Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) Stuttgart, Germany

Ø Requirements and gaps to adapt high quality education content to middle and eastern Europe markets: Antje Wollenweber, Klett Group Stuttgart, Germany

Ø Russian “Best Practices” of Educational Web Resources: Ildar Galeev, Oleg Kolosov, Larissa Tararina: Kazan State Technological University, Russia

Ø Learning technologies for corporate training: flexibility and harmonization issues: Kateryna Synytsya, HansJoerg vonBrevern: International Research and Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems Kiev, Ukraine

09.55 – 10.05 Coffee break 10.05 – 11.25 Methods to match requirements and offers in technology enhanced learning between research and industry

Ø The PROLEARN Virtual Competence Centre: Alexander Karapidis, Germany Ø Experiences from joint projects CTI – Industry: Michael Auer, Carinthia Tech Institute Villach, Austria Ø Dedicated Developer-Team Building for Software Companies in Ukraine: Experience Report and Some Future Trends: Mykola Tkachuk, Eduard Rubin, Andreas Pester, Kateryna Lytvynenko: National Technical University “KhPI” Kharkiv, UKRAINE, Telesens LLC Kharkiv, UKRAINE, Carinthia Tech Institute AUSTRIA

Ø Building Bridges between Science and Industry - The Know-Center Experience: Tobias Ley, Know-Center Graz, Austria

11.25 – 11.30 Short coffee break 11.30 – 13.10 Modus operandi to implement TEL according to company needs

Ø LEARNING SYSTEMS IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Larissa Zaitseva, Jekaterina Bule: Riga Technical University, Latvia Ø Business processes and IT training – the strongest bridge between the management and the aims gap: Yasen Tsvetanov, Systems & Management Ltd., Bulgaria

Ø E-learning courseware composition and delivery with self adaptive systems: Dessislava Vassileva, Boyan Bontchev: Department of Information Technologies, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria; Bonea Ltd., Bulgaria

Ø Research Communities’ Knowledge Sharing Platform Modular Architecture: Cristina Niculescu: Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Bucarest, Romania

Ø Adaptable Business Process Simulations as a means to increase work performance: Oliver Korn, Korion Marbach, Germany

13.10 – 13.30 Summery and final discussion