MELT has been specifically designed to complement and build on work being carried out in the CELEBRATE and CALIBRATE projects and the EUN’s FIRE initiative which have developed a technical architecture for linking repositories that enables a transparent form of federated searching. 

Content repositories in MELT will become part of a federation using this architecture and the project will be a key component in the EUN’s plans to launch a pan-European Learning Resource Exchange (LRE). The co-ordinated LRE strategy being developed by the EUN in a number of projects is designed to address the demand from schools, Ministries of Education and other bodies for a system that will allow teachers and pupils across Europe to more easily locate, use and reuse both ‘open content’ and learning resources from commercial suppliers.