It brought together the 11 partners working on end user aspects of the project. iClass is  one of the two integrated projects in the area of education in the current round of 6th Framework Information Society Technologies projects.

Running for five years, it brings together 22 partners in a consortium led by Siemens Business Services Turkey with €15m funding to "develop an intelligent cognitive-based open learning system and environment, adapted to individual learners' needs and ensuring their take-up in the education sector at a European level." EUN is already involved in the technical side of the project through the efforts of Frans van Assche and David Massart.
 
The 22 partners from 11 different countries include four of the world's leading IT companies and three SMEs with state of the art learning and new media technologies and three multinational school networks. They are working to develop an intelligent cognitive-based open learning system and environment, adapted to individual learners' needs at a European level. The efforts will, by envisioning the educational process of the future, involve extensive research for the definition and design of next generation products and services; the creation and testing of prototypes; and measurement of the impact to ensure effective utilisation of technology in pre-university education.
 
iClass aims to contribute to the realization of a paradigm shift: making ICT more than simply a tool. The resultant system and services will allow the following:

• A new pedagogical approach capable of adapting teaching and learning processes to the profile of individual learners;
• Personalisation according to different cultural characteristics and learning styles;
• A prescriptive-diagnostic system, where the system not only presents personalized content to learners but also identifies the problem areas encountered during the learning process and reports on these areas to the relevant parties.
• A more generalised and widespread access to learning resources;

In the project, requirements are being defined with the vision that the results of the project will start to be used in about 2010. These include the definition of usage scenarios, user requirements/needs, and the future of the education process.

In order to preserve cultural and national diversity, iClass will involve the development of a system that takes into account demographic, multicultural, and multilingual characteristics of the member countries. The deliverable involves both a service and a tool which can be used both for instructional and assessment purposes.
 
The next meeting of the ECB is in Dublin on 7 September 2005.