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home > Media services > News > Excellent review for CALIBRATE proposal Excellent review for CALIBRATE proposal The CALIBRATE project received an excellent first evaluation from the European Commission. CALIBRATE brings together eight Ministries of Education, including six from the new member states, and other expert and user organisations to carry out a multi-level project to support the collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools. What particularly pleased the Commission was that the project fully addresses the requirements of the tender to strengthen the integration of ICT research in an Enlarged Europe.
The CALIBRATE Brokerage System will provide a strategic level of integration of national repositories at an infrastructure level and stimulate the development of interoperable learning content repositories. Work in the project on semantic interoperability and the development of an open source learning toolbox will also make a significant contribution towards consolidating the expertise of leading researchers from old and new member states who are active in the fields of collaborative learning, curriculum mapping, Topic Maps, and IMS Learning Design. The EUN was approached by a number of other consortia preparing proposals to this Call and has agreed to be a validation partner in a project proposal called Mapp.com that explores how games industry thinking might be used to develop learning activities based on Geographical Information Systems for young people with location aware devices like mobile phones and PDAs. The project will look at the role digital ‘cultural’ content delivered through new mobile IST services can play in enhancing learning among primary school children and by this means to address a clear set of ‘pedagogical’ issues and objectives relevant to the goals of an e-Europe.
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