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European Multimedia Pedagogic Local support network Organisation for the social integration of unemployed Young Europeans |
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Project Duration |
36 months |
Total Cost |
3 922 741 ECU |
EU - Contribution |
1 738 875 ECU |
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Through the TAP programme, the European Commission supports the project named EMPLOY to facilitate the social integration of young Europeans threatened by social marginalisation. The EMPLOY project will use the opportunity offered by multimedia technologies with the development of new vocational training products that are well fitted to "on demand" distance training and, besides, may be psychologically more easily accepted by a population reluctant to traditional education system. Located in five European sites, EMPLOY stations will be provided in special multimedia centres, where young people will be able to access vocational training, employment opportunities and tele-services. Several tele-services will be provided on a European scale either regionally as employment information for the young and information about qualified young people for potential employers. As the target population of EMPLOY, a majority of young people who need to be socially inserted, cannot be expected to be able to use multimedia tools or to possess specific linguistic skills, the multimedia catalogue proposed by EMPLOY will contain the training in the usage of multimedia training tools, language training and training on specific professional skills. |
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The project approach mixes three kinds of contribution based on the experience already acquired by specialised organisations in different but complementary fields: |
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- Six European organisations (ADICE, LFEEP, IB-BBZ, NORFOLK, BFI and NYF), specialised in the field of education, will develop pedagogical approaches in order to propose training for young unemployed population.
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- A company (MEDIACONCEPT), specialised in the edition, production and distribution of multimedia educational applications will develop tools for the multimedia training and associated software.
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- The world leader of Smart Card Industry (GEMPLUS) will insure the access to multimedia systems for the users.
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From a technical point of view, the project development will be organised around three different kinds of tools combined in this multimedia approach: |
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- The multimedia content composed of the courseware and telematics applications that the infrastructure will "contain".
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- The System Architecture composed of the equipment on the sites, the local network (and the corresponding server) and the inter-site network.
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- The smartcard as the tool for access control, payment, and ultimately loyalty development and guidance for the young people.
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A demonstrator implementing two types of service, access to pedagogic databases and video conference, will be developed. Each of the five pilot sites, La Rochelle (France), Stuttgart (Germany), Norfolk (Great Britain), Dublin (Ireland) and Linz (Austria), includes a telematic server connected to various transmission lines, acting as both client and server for other pilot sites, each one handling its own database and a local network of PCs for the final users of the pilot site. |
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Education and Industrial Impact |
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User perspective: Direct users are public educational organisation that contributed to EMPLOY definition. They intend to exploit those results in a short delay: |
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- by opening many new pilot sites (through the equivalent bodies in Austria, 60 sites planned in France, 50 in Germany, 10 in Great Britain, 3 in Ireland).
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- by widening and adapting the exploitation field to working-class universities for adult-training, and to the specific training of physically handicapped persons.
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From the supplier side, the EMPLOY project is part of an overall strategy to position themselves in the multimedia market and in particular the educational market: |
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- MEDIACONCEPT observed that no distance or life formation service for vocational training is operational at the present time. EMPLOY shall allow to experiment this new field, to validate concept and tools and to prefigure a commercial market for 1998, and will be in a position to exploit its experience in payment systems, telecommunication networks and identity card files in the field of education and training. EMPLOY will contribute to elaborate complete hardware and software tool kits for managing access to networks for education, information, training and entertainment.
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http://www.arttic.com/projects/employ/EMPLOY.html |
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Claudine Debray |
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ARTTIC |
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5 avenue de Verdun |
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94204 Ivry sur Seine Cedex |
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France |
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+33 (0) 1 45 15 24 55 |
Fax: |
+33 (0) 1 45 15 24 60 |
E-mail: |
debray@arttic.fr |
Internet |
http://www.arttic.com |
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