The PARMENIDE project, co-funded by the Leonardo da Vinci programme, intends to design and disseminate an innovative learning system for the purpose of drawing together e-learning modalities with an advanced and interactive  knowledge acquisition system based on Intelligent Agents (IA).

The project aims at meeting the needs, in terms of training and skills, perceived in the field of transports, qualifying and updating staff competences.

FUTUREtec's Role: Subcontractor

Is meant to give an effective answer to the necessity of innovation of the audiovisual industry, mostly in the use of new forms of communication, expression, visual digital approaches, in order to foster its competitiveness promoting, from one side, the continuous vocational training of professionals working in this field, and at the same time discovering new talents, offering them an effective and innovative training.
IVAN project will produce and deliver a new vocational course (at distance and in presence) through which the trainees will be able to use advanced digital technological tools for the production and distribution of art visual products (Video Art) with a high artistic value, having a direct commercial impact on the audiovisual and advertisement industry.
FUTUREtec's Role: Promotion, technical support

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Note: Young professionals interested in attending the IVAN course (partly on-line + 1 week in Rome) can apply for a boursary.
Are you interested? Please contact: Caterina Rehm-Berbenni ()

The primary project objective is to develop an ICT framework, which enables software and service providers to generate and establish open and extensible development platforms for WEB-Service applications. Generated in this way, the open platform consists of coupled and linked INFRAWEBS units, whereby each unit provides tools and adaptable system components to analyse, design and maintain WEB-Services realised as Semantic-Web-Services (SW services) within the whole life cycle.

FUTUREtec's Role: Dissemination Partner

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The project brings together a consortium of specialists in information technology, sustainable development, environmental modelling, public policy and governance, learning psychology and open learning, to develop computer-based learning tools on ecosystems and natural resources. The four domains are agricultural pollution, climate change, freshwater resources and marine capture fisheries. Taking these four domains as exemplary, ViRTU@LiS creates learning tools for improving citizens' awareness of environmental management and risks.

FUTUREtec's Role: Subcontractor

Experts of FUTUREtec and Höring Management Consulting prepare the content of the 1. Internet-Conference of the Partnership-Management the German Telekom. More than 250 registered participants of this new kind of event followed the lectures of important authorities at their computer displays. They joined in the discussion intensively by using the online-media. The goals for that event were the exploitation of relevant business information, the presentation of the competence of the German Telekom and especially the sharing of experience and cooperation with independent consultants. The whole event took place in the internet.

The project's goal was to provide a process-oriented, multilingual, generic internet platform containing specific methodology and sector specific content in relation to integrated quality management systems for SMEs. This project is focused mainly on the fields of the environment, health and safety, and quality.

FUTUREtec's Role: Coordinator

VILIB - VIrtual digital LIBrary on an Europe-wide level.