General Information and Call for Papers

The fourth EcoMedia Europe Education Conference (May 14 - 17, 2009)  is going to be held in Limburg (BE).

Conference topic: "The New European School - Digital Literacy inside?"

Overview
EcoMedia-Europe is an educational Socrates-Comenius Network co-financed by the European Commission.  The main thematic area of the network is the strategic development of ICT and media based education in the field of Comenius. Furthermore the network works on three different but well complemented sub-themes linked to SOCRATES-COMENIUS:

• ICT Basics and Infrastrure (Videoconferencing, communication- and presentation technologies, ICT based language learning, new knowledge-based European society and more)
• Media & e Learning Didactics (Media literacy, Life long learning in the media society, Virtual Communities, Media research)
• ICT Prospects and Strategies (e-learning, E-Government in school organisation, SchoolNets, e-twinning, e-participation)
                   

The network is designed in order to include 22 institutions from 18 different European countries as formal network partners but moreover ecoMEDIAeurope has a large number of associated network members.

Topics: ICT related to:
·          E-Learning and Blended learning
·          ICT and special needs
·          Innovation in education
·          Mobile Learning
·          Serious Games

Venue
The conference will be held at the Limburg Catholic University College (KHLim), which is located in Diepenbeek, in the East of Belgium, near the German and Dutch border and fourty kilometers from Liège, the french speaking part of Belgium. The social activities of the conference will include a visit to Bokrijk to an open air museum.

Keynote Speakers
Dr. Michael Wagner, Danube University Krems
Mrs. Odette Vanlaer, Limburg Catholic University College
Mr. Paul Bottelbergs, mediafilosopher and VRT-producer

National Organizing Committee Chair
[ED+ict], Education and ICT, research unit of the teacher training department of the Limburg Catholic University College
Contact: Dries Palmaers ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Paper submission
Authors are requested to initially submit an extended abstract (1000 words). Authors of accepted submissions as well as of invited papers are requested to submit full papers of 4 to 6 pages (including graphics, tables and references). Abstracts and papers must be submitted electronically in open office or word format to the following e-mail address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Important Dates
·          Submission of Abstract                                     15 February 2009
·          Notification of Acceptance                                01 March 2009
·          Author Registration Deadline                             31 March 2009
·          Camera-Ready Papers                                      15 April 2009
·          ecoMEDIAeurope-conference 2009:                 14-17 May 2009

Scientific Programme Committee
Valère Awouters (Chair), Limburg Catholic University College (BE)
Erwin Bratengeyer (Co-Chair), Danube University Krems, AT
Agnis And?āns, The University of Latvia, LV
Aleksandra Malec, Foundation “Serce Szkole”, PL
Alenka Adamic, The National Education Institute, SI
Alexandru Lautaru, I.G. Duca General Primary School, RO
Anna-Lena Öhman, Adult Eduction Centre Dalsland, SE
Edite Liekmane, Saldus District Council, LV
Esko Kuittinen, University of Helsinki (FI)
Eva Rehakova, Apprentice Training Center Frydek-Mistek, CZ
Georgeta Chirlesan, University of Pitesti, RO
Georgios Efstathiou, Upper Secondary School Trikala, GR
Gerhard Schwed, Danube University Krems, AT
Hans Christian Knudsen, FREDBERG, DK
Herbert Eile, Regional School Board Wolfsberg, AT
Jacqueline Matthews, Dunleer Post Primary School, IE
Katarina Grgec, Grammar School Oroslavje (HR)
Kosta Boshnakov, Univ. of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, BG
Kurt Kohn, University of Tuebingen, DE
Laine Bluma, Educational Board of District Saldus, LV
Mar?a Sanz Hern?ndez, MT Training Services, ES
Monica Bosman, Adult Eduction Centre Dalsland, SE
Monika Szentp?ly-Juh?sz, P?pa Reformed College, HU
Nevenka ?traser, The National Education Institute, SI
Pascal Cuisant, Ain’s Guild Chamber, FR
Patrizia Serafini, Istituto Comprensivo “Da Vinci-Ungaretti”, IT
Peter Fabian, University of Zilina, SK
Peter Stauber, Trans European Municipality Association, AT
Piotr Fast, University College of Foreign Languages Czestochowa, PL
Ruben Jans, Limburg Catholic University College (BE)
Salvatore Calderaro, Commerical Academy F.P.Merendino, IT
Sebastiaan Jans, Limburg Catholic University College (BE)
Thomas Daxkobler, Regional School Board Wolfsberg, AT
Thomas Haudej, Province Education Authority Carinthia, AT
Ulrike Höbarth, Province Education Authority Lower Austria, AT
Valya Nencheva, School 127 I.Denkoglu, BG