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SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION OF AN INTEGRATED PROJECT
… testimonial
TABLE OF CONTENT
• Example of an European project ( only a use case)
• Research issues discussion
• Concluding remarks
15.09.2009 2ERAcademy - Lausanne
PALETTE IN BRIEF … to understand the “use case”
Producing, sharing and reusing information
… exploiting explicit and tacit knowledge
Provide a set of services to sustain Communities of Practice activities
CoP
…
CoP
CoP
Integrating knowledge
Collaborative learning
Usability of services
Interoperability of services
15.09.2009 3ERAcademy - Lausanne
PALETTE CONSORTIUM … to understand the multi-disciplinary framework
Project coordination Scientific coordination
R&D Partners
- UNIFR (CH)University of Fribourg- ULG (BE)University of Liège- AESCRA EM Lyon (FR)Association de l’enseignement supérieur Commercial Rhône Alpes- GATE-cnrs (FR)University Lyon 2- CSET (UK)Lancaster University
Users & Companies
- INRIA (FR)Institut National de Recherche en Informatiqueet Automatique- EPFL (CH)Ecole Polytechnique Fédérele de Lausanne- CTI (GR)Research Academic ComputerTechnology Institute- CRP-HT (LU)Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor- UT (DZ)University of Tlemcen
Pedagogical
Technology
- ePrep (FR) TIC & Ecoles préparatoires
- MindOnSite (CH) Integral Coaching
- NISAI (UK) Support IT Ltd.
Associated to the project
- LICEF (CA) Télé-Université Québec
15.09.2009 4ERAcademy - Lausanne
THE BABYLON TOWER ISSUE
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Communication between P and T
Advice: take time to agree on the “vocabulary”
Communication between researchers!
15.09.2009 5ERAcademy - Lausanne
THE END USERS ISSUES IN A R&D PROJECT
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How to face?
-Microsoft-Google- …
;-)
15.09.2009 6ERAcademy - Lausanne
THE PUBLISH OR PERISH ISSUE
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/landrec/images/publish.gif
Remain an “autist” or
-participate in workshops-exchange with colleagues
… and prepare the future!
15.09.2009 7ERAcademy - Lausanne
THE FRUSTRATING ROLE OF A COORDINATOR?... NO!
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15.09.2009 8ERAcademy - Lausanne
CONCLUSION
• Benefit of i18n!– an opportunity given to share between research teams over Europe … and
the world!– an opportunity to build future actions.
• European project overhead?
– That’s right but … – it is a question of being aware of rules (well explained!)– … to be discussed!
15.09.2009 9ERAcademy - Lausanne