S2-NET

Project: S2-NET - Social and Sector based e-learning enhanced by professional ODL networks

Duration: 1 December 2001 - 28 February 2005

Coordinator: EFODL Co-ordination unit - European Federation for Open and Distance Learning (BE)

Partners: BEODL - Belgian network for open and distance learning (BE), Scienter - ricerche e servizi avanzati per la formazione (IT), SvdT - School voor de Toekomst (NL), BAOL - British Association for the Learner (UK), FFFOD - Forum Français pour la Formation Ouverte et à Distance (FR), Cesi (FR), CTE (PT), NADE - Norwegian Association for Distance Education (NO), EDEN - European Distance Education Network (HU), EuroPACE (BE)

Summary: The S2-NET project has been approved by the EC in the framework of the Community Vocational Training Programme Leonardo da Vinci. In the project three European networks: E.F. ODL (as coordinator), EDEN and EuroPACE have joined forces with the seven national ODL networks from Portugal, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and Norway in order to further stimulate the use of e-learning in vocational training. This project wants to encourage the use of e-learning in vocational training for all the actors involved, ODL professionals as well as the broader community of practitioners and local policy makers, thus producing awareness of the possibilities e-learning offers and preventing old and new forms of social exclusion. The overall aim of the S²-NET project is to innovate the methods of training and education through the use of technology-based learning and to contribute to the diffusion of good practice for the use of ICT in the field of vocational training. This aim will be divided into several objectives, basically into four different aspects: the stimulation of professional networks, the installation of social dialogue concerning e-learning, the encouragement to treat social and equality aspects, and the attention for permanent dissemination.

Role EuroPACE:

• Coordination of the research work package
• Development of a database for learning materials and references
• Development and hosting of the S2Net website.
• Participation in dissemination seminars and exchange workshops

URL: http://www.europace.org/s2net/index.htm

Supported by: European Commission ? DG Education & Culture ? Leonardo da Vinci