International ecoMEDIAeurope Conference

„Raising the Standards of apprenticeship and vocational schools in Europe“

(special focus on metal | CNC, CAD/CAM, QM and measuring technology)

October 14 - 18, 2013
Wolfsberg, Austria

Conference homepage

Announcement:

8th ecoMEDIA-europe Conference
„eCompetence - Needs and Demands of Innovative Education”

May 27-29, 2013

Antalya, TR

Video Anatalya Turkey

Conference homepage: ecomediaantalya.org

MAIN OBJECTIVES

• Building up specific know-how about the different European ICT strategies in education on all levels as the use of ICT for training and teaching varies widely.
• Exchange of experiences as European education methodology in combination with ICT use is quite varied. Exchange of experience will mainly be gained at international conferences and workshops.
• Taylor cut transfer of knowledge to balance lack of know-how and different standards in various countries, requirement of ICT use for education and training is significant.
• Promotion of all forms of innovation in the ICT based school education. The objective is to render available contents for ICT based education and to create a learning community for teachers and students. 

MAIN ACTIVITIES and TYPE of ACTIVITIES

• development of “good practices projects” related to ICT Comenius projects
• research on the state of art within the thematic network area via three working groups
• improvement of educational systems (strategic development with new concept and measures)
• to act as European information point and development of new co-operations
• improving standards of educational policies as well as skills and knowledge of educational staff

For the on-going changes of media areas we need modern and modified strategic measures for further development and training on a European level. Presently there are no realistic concepts for a European visible strategy, all strategies are based on pilot projects and individual initiatives. EcoMedia-Europe should lead to:

• experience from previous projects should be used effectively, EcoMedia Europe would like and has the knowledge to develop a common strategy of various measures and individual initiatives
• try to keep costs to a minimum for schools in the expensive IT sector with new developed concepts and strategies
• improving the standard of current and future COMENIUS projects within the thematic area
• more teacher are to motivated to use ICT tools in education, qualitative use of ICT is to be increased (for example, language learning via ICT, eLearning in various subjects)
• teachers and students are to be familiarized with opportunities to use SchoolNets
• intercultural dialogue between schools should be fostered and a balanced diversity of languages should be promoted