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"Democracy cannot exist without online freedom of expression"

05 April 2013

Born in Athens, European Union (EU) Special Representative for Human Rights Stavros Lambrinidis is an attorney, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece and a former Vice-President of the European Parliament. The speech he delivered at the Tech @State High Level conference in Washington, USA, highlights the EU's commitment to protecting human rights and democracy by promoting internet freedom. 

 

Democracy cannot exist without both offline and online freedom of expression, according to Stavros Lambrinidis, EU Special Representative for Human Rights. To that end, the EU must uphold its norms, principles, and values in both offline and online worlds, he stressed. In his speech, delivered at the Tech @State High Level conference, Lambrinidis outlined the EU's action plan for reaching this objective. 

 

One of the next steps will be to develop and publish a set of EU guidelines on freedom of expression—online and offline—that will include the protection of bloggers and journalists. The handbook will help unfurl the EU's view on the restriction of freedom, access to the Internet, and the arrest of bloggers, already made public through repeated condemnation of such acts. 

 

Other planned action includes sending clear political messages against increased internet censorship, and possibly curbing the export of materials intended for internet monitoring and/or telecommunication surveillance in violation of human rights. The EU has already adopted sanctions prohibiting the export of this kind of technology to Syria and Iran, in hopes of preventing authoritarian regimes from using them against human rights defenders.

 

All these actions, and more, will build on the foundation established by the joint EEAS – DG CNNECT “No Disconnect” Strategy announced on December 2011 by Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes. "No Disconnect" equips civil society organisations, political dissidents and citizens living in non-democratic conditions with tools to circumvent arbitrary disruptions of the Internet and other electronic communications technologies.
 
Read Lambrinidis' full speech here.
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15 Minutes of Math

05 April 2013

Smartick is designed to aid primary school students in developing key math skills. 15-minute daily sessions form part of a sequenced study plan adapted to each student's progress.

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Hype again or useful tool in the difficult times? - VISIR Consultation about the role of ICT in education

05 April 2013

What do you think about the potential of ICTs for cost reduction, transferability of learning outcomes, employability and for scalability of innovation in education?

Join the short VISIR survey and share your opinion to discuss how the policy can contribute to finding solutions!

Survey is available in EnglishGermanFrenchItalian and SpanishParticipation takes maximum 10 minutes.

Results of the First consultation “What are the most relevant factors of change and how do they affect LLL?” are downloadable: 1st Consultation Executive Summary and the full 1st Consultation Paper.

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Augmented Reality in Education

03 April 2013

How can educators incorporate augmented reality into education? What projects are currently being employed? Come to Aumenta.me 2013, on 20 April 2013 in Valencia, Spain, to learn more!  

Aumenta.me comes back for its second edition with a conference will feature the educators, researchers, materials designers and companies who use augmented reality in everyday education. The event, sponsored by the non-profit Asociación Espiral, Educación y Tecnología and the public Institute for Human Centered Technologies Lab Human, will take place in Valencia, Spain. 

 

Register here

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Ireland International Conference on Education 2013

03 April 2013

The Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE) is biannual conference that takes place in April and October. 2013's edition will kick off in Dublin, from 15-17 April. 

 

The so-called 'knowledge triangle' is key to Europen innovation policy and the focus of the Ireland International Conference on Education: a collaborative relationship between the fields of education, research, and innovation.

The ultimate aim is to connect research and practice, bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. Participants are invited to present papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation are welcome. 

 

Register here.
 
 
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EU training course in Berlin in October: Video Production and Web 2.0

03 April 2013

There are still places available for the training week in Berlin that will be taking place from the 21st to the 25th of October, 2013.

The course is based on a combination of video education and social media methods and is a hybrid outcome of these two EU projects: www.web20erc.eu and www.viducate.net. The aim is to explore creative approaches in the online and offline use of video within education.

 

You can apply at your National EU Agency for funding. The deadline for application is the 30th April 2013.

 

You can find the course description here.

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Submit your Article for "Problems of Management in the 21st Century" Journal

02 April 2013

The international scientific journal "Problems of Management in the 21st Century" is now accepting submissions for articles. Papers should be original work, and substantively different from papers that have been previously published or under review in another publication. Applications are due 30 April 2013, and full papers should be sent in by 5 June 2013. 

More information here.

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University on a Cloud

02 April 2013

This book, recently published by the Laboratori de Mitjans Interactius (Interactive Media Lab), surveys university presence "in the cloud" and the extent to which different institutions incorporate online learning systems into higher education. The book collects research from two research groups on either side of the Atlantic - the University of Barcelona's Interactive Media Lab, in Spain, and the Federal University of Santa Catarina New Technology Lab (Communic), in Brazil. 

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Live from...Five Different Countries: FolkDC Sychronious Concert

02 April 2013

Live Concert

A unique simultaneous concert will be held live across five European countries: UK, Turkey Finland, Romania and Spain. School choirs at each venue will perform FolkDc songs, and will be streamed over the internet on 23 April 2013 (times in your area are available on the website).

Your school can watch this exciting concert online see http://folkdc.eu/synchronousconcert/ or even attend in person by arrangement (places are limited). 

Resource for Teachers

The project has prepared an autonomous teacher kit that can be used to motivate and engage early language learners. The kit is available on the project website at: http://folkdc.eu/overview/

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6th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2013)

27 Maart 2013
The SPeL workshop focuses on social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities, especially regarding emergent technologies for applied computing in education. It provides a place to discuss research about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of intelligent e-learning systems, where people can learn together in a personalized way through social interaction with other learners. All accepted workshop papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, which will be indexed in IEEE Xplore and INSPEC. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: May 15, 2013 Full paper submission: May 22, 2013 Acceptance notification: June 30, 2013 Registration and camera-ready papers: July 15, 2013 Please refer to the workshop website (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013) for more information.