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.