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This project aims to define, set up and validate a virtual environment of Knowledge Management and training aimed to offer European SME´s employees a meeting place for their technicians and professionals, where to develop lifelong learning processes through knowledge exchange and acquisition, using e-learning tools for this purpose.

First, this platform on internet should become a reference that solves or indicates the way to solve the lack of information and training by means of references, news, exchange of knowledge and practices for the resolution of problems, virtual seminars, participation in forums, chats, library, video-library, etc. Second, the platform will offer lifelong training that will be defined and endowed with content on the basis of the self-evaluations carried out by its users and of a needs analysis.

This project is addressed in the first place to old students from different training programmes organized by all the partners involved in this project . The target group consists of professionals and technicians working at European Sme´s who have technical and managing responsabilities.

During the foreseen pilot experience, all the platform activities will be around 4 knowledge areas ; health and safety at work, Quality, Marketing and Human resources. Once tested we will enlarge it to other groups and knowledge areas.

This project will create a European Small and Medium Entreprise e-Learning Network (ESEN) for the sharing of expertise and best-practice. Drawing on partner expertise and recent research findings an innovative e-learning course, based on constructionist principles and state-of-the-art technology, will be developed and delivered to SME leaders and managers.

The project will inform best-practice and academic knowledge through wide dissemination, have up-rated manager’s personal skills in 6 countries, have created a scaleable and innovative e-learning course for possible wider roll-out, and also formed a sustainable European network for further research.

eRNIST will bring together education inspectors, researchers and practitioners. They will act proactively and base their work on the implications of the idea that schooling will be, one way or another, radically different in ten years’ time. They will explore elearning concepts such as new learning environments and the virtual school and identify the steps to be taken and indices of progress towards this aim that ministries would need for evidence-based decision-making.

This project will build on the scenarios and portraits of leading edge practice to postulate and help to implement a schooling system for the future that strenghtens public sector provision, provides equality of opportunity and supports democratic processes and fosters citizenship in young people. Work involves looking at existing sources of information in a fresh light and working closely with practitioners in networks of innovative schools, notably ENIS and the eSchola Leading Edge set of schools using the notion of school portraits as an organising framework.

This would provide a strong communication channel between research, practice and policy, helping to overcome the barriers between researchers and practitioners and to involve end users in defining research needs. Outputs include workshops and conferences, briefing papers and a series of school portraits.

The eTTnet (Training of Trainers network for eLearning) is promoted by Isfol (national co-ordinator of TTnet Italy) within the training of trainers network (AT, BE, FI, FR, IE, LU, PO, ES, UK) which have expressed interest at this stage, and other professional organisations/networks at national or European level (EifEL, EDEN, ISM).

The final expected result of the project is the development of a European Training of Trainers Learning Environment, a "Knowledge base" of concepts, practices and tools, for the professionalisation of trainers and teachers, validated by the community of VET professionals at National and Community levels.