RUNNING PROJECTS
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PRO-IDEAL - Promotion of an ICT Dialogue between Europe and America Latina The PRO-IDEAL platform is your KNOWLEDGE SOURCE on the European Union's Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Research Programme and your LINK between LATIN AMERICA and EUROPE. The ICT Wiki provides quick and easy access to the EU FP7 ICT Programme.
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EQF-Code - Transferring and applying the instruments of the European Qualification Framework (EQF) and the e-Competence Framework (eCF) to multimedia professions in the field of content development The main objectives of the project are to: 1. analyse the current qualification profiles in the field of content development and describing them by learning outcomes; 2. refer the determined qualification profiles to the EQF to the national sectoral qualification frameworks and the qualification frameworks developed at European level by using approaches developed in the previous projects "CompTrain" and "Embedding standards"; 3. determine a comprehensive European qualification profile for content developers; and 4. based on this "ideal profile", develop reference material for entreprises and guidelines for training institutions so that they can adapt their training offers in the field of content development accordingly.
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PAST PROJECTS
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LEKTOR - Legal Knowledge Transfer Accelerator for SMEs The aim of LEKTOR was to improve access to legal knowledge for e-business and to allow for autonomous knowledge exchange among all players in e-business through the LEXELERATOR platform. The Lexelerator provides easy-t- understand information on crucial legal issues in e-business. A Legal Wiki gives a quick overview, explaining the potential impact of legal issues on e-business and provides useful links.
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WISE - Women Integration and Skills for Entrepreneurship The aim of WISE was to support the needs of women entrepreneurs in the ICT/ICT-supported sector and to create gender-awareness between all players in ICT. The following documents and tools are the result of WISE: 1. Benchmarking report - summary - full report; 2. Benchmarking tool / Self-assessment tools - Wf Forte - BDC; 3. "Vademecum" for women entrepreneurs.
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CompTrain - Competence Needs for Formation and Training in Multimedia Jobs CompTrain defined competences and skills required in multimedia jobs and professions through: 1. a Catalogue of multimedia / new technologies professions, tasks & skills: [FR/EN/DE] 2. a set of Training Modules Recommendations [FR/EN/DE] CompTrain furthermore made available a set of tools to assist students, workers, SMEs and training institutions: 1. Skills & competences questionnaire; 2. Self-assessment tool.
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SPREAD - Stimulate and promote good practice in the field of digital content in eastern and western Europe SPREAD aimsed at disseminating and promoting best practices and results of the EU's eContent programme to interested stakeholders in the digital content industries and the public sector in Western and Eastern Europe. Project Abstract
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€TTEC - European Training Tools for e-Content Start-ups and SMEs’ Expansion €TTEC aimed at identifying European Critical Success Factors in eContent and translating them into advanced training modules involving experts on multilinguality, localisation of content, international IPR, European network development and entrepreneurial assessment. Project Abstract
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EMMA - European Multimedia Accelerator in San Francisco EMMA provided a comprehensive set of services designed to assist European Multimedia SMEs through their start-up phase of establishing a business presence in the San Francisco Bay area. EMMA was thus at the very origin of EMF's e-Accelerator service platform. e-Accelerator
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PACT - Partnership Agreement between Content and Technology PACT was a dissemination action aimed at stimulating SMEs to submit proposals under the EU RTD programmes. Project Abstract
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FIRST - Film Restoration and Conservation Strategies FIRST launched an open platform on issues related to digitisation for conservation, restoration and exploitation of film collections. Its objective was to provide European conservation bodies with a reliable knowledge base on a series of digitisation related issues. Project Abstract - Press Release - Results
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RITMO - Research on Integrated Trading Model for Music Online RITMO addressed challenges faced by the independent music industry in Europe in relation to technological, business and legal issues related to the online distribution of music. Project Abstract
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CONFOSS - Confederation of SME Servers The challenge of CONFOSS was to create a Confederation of SME Servers, a common internet-based platform between several organisations serving Europe's SME communities. CONFOSS was the very first step of establishing the network of associations, clusters and support organisations that are still EMF' s trusted partners. Project Abstract
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DEUS - Developing European SMEs DEUS was a very early research programme initiated to increase the understanding of how the information requirements of European SMEs could be better addressed by the use of telematics. Project Summary
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