[Air-l] @LIS - Demostration Projects -REPORT & SEARCH FOR PARTNERS

[Paolo Manzelli]

@LIS - Demostration Projects - SEARCH FOR PARTNERS

Dear Colleagues,

the LRE-EGO-CreaNET  search for partners from Latin American
Countries   to present a BID for   the e.learning @LIS call .

As you know for the @LIS demonstration Project in e.Learning in cultural

diversity, each project as well as the project SKILL SHORTAGE , need to
cover the maximum of balanced geographical areas permitted by the Budget

.( about 2.5 // 3.0 Million EURO) / see following REPORT.

This means that we look to compose the membership of the consortium with

about 8 partner of 6 different countries in Latin America and 8 partner
coming from  5 different countries in Europe.

I appreciate the effort partners coming from Latin America Countries
for improving new dimension in mundialization of different approaches in

the future KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN SOCIETY , therefore we will be glad for your
partnership for giving a contribute to the  elaboration and the
application of e-strategies measures specifically aimed at ensuring
network on lifelong education "cyberspace - methodology" for stimulating
in all citizens the consciousness about innovative Knowledge Management
needs for sustainable development SME's internationalization.

Our project preliminary adjourned proposal is in
http://www.edscuola.it/archivio/lre/alis/index.htm

Therefore we ask to help us to search for partners . They can send  to
the Digital fax +39/06/ 233227529 , a preliminary Letter of Intent  to
LRE-EGO-CreaNET of the University of Florence.

There is no any model for this Letter of Intention , because each
partner need to define the proper role in a preliminary proposal of
SK-SH
demonstration project proposal ; any way  you can see the other letter
of intent in :
http://www.edscuola.it/archivio/lre/alis/partners.htm

After this we develop together to the effective  partners that would
like to enjoy the SKILL SHORTAGE CONSORTIUM , the MoU and Working and
the Business Plan
.
I hope to hear from you again in the shortest time that it will be
possible.

My best regards Paolo Manzelli

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REPORT MEETING -
European Commission for @LIS Call. 5/6/Sept./2002 Brussels

By Paolo Manzelli . Project SKILL SHORTAGE (SK.SH) project proposal. :
http://www.edscuola.it/archivio/lre/alis/index.htm

Notes about principal recommendations of  Eu - Commission and @LIS -
Brokers.


Dear Partners and friends,

I would like to tell you that the SK-SH demonstration project it was
well known by the brokers
 ( e-mail:  alisprojects-elearning at yahoogroups.com and seriously
appreciated.

Now I would like to summarize the following guidelines extracted by the
dialog with the EU-Commisson representatives  subdivided in this report in

General Issues and more practical issues.

1) General Issues :

a) The principal recommendation is the following: carefully remember
that @lis program follows an social approach for the promotion of
Information
Society (IS) ; therefore is not directed to any specific audience but to
citizen in
several horizontal thematic that are ( e.Govern  ; e.Education ; e.Health
;
e.Inclusion ).

The SK-SH project approach is well shaped  with this principal
recommendation because is finalized to generate a shared knowledge for the
lifelong education innovation methodology aiming to stimulate mass impact
of the diffusion and dissemination of  shared models through the
organization of an
“e.publishing permanent forum  .  See : (VIAL- permanent forum org.
Detailed project description )  organized to provide support on-line
architecture for
setting up and exchange knowledge in a cultural diversity knowledge
innovation approach for the decision makers and for technical staff
strengthen the partnership's consortium with similar national initiatives.

b) The brokers suggest also the following consideration : the @LIS
program fundamental goal is to reinforce social actions  for improving  IS

international  society .Therefore some Internet e.work  organization
play an important role  in developing the project. In spite of this,  the
demonstration procedures need to include not only a virtual exchange of
information,
in fact
each demonstration
project need to include a sufficient number of “face to face”
conferences for
the need to show  partial and final results directed to citizen and to
open a very large synergy's with end users  of the proper IS action plan.

The above consideration means that the Project SK-SH need to look to
prepare citizen to the models and concepts to stimulate  people of the
Knowledge Management innovation of SME’s in the dimension of  the
international knowledge society , and not at all is considered useful for
the ALIS program to develop traditional e.leraning courses for formal or
informal education of SME’s

.
2) Particular suggestions for budget strategy

- Starting from the above principal recommendations can be derived the
following  practical considerations for an efficient economy of
projects.

Brokers said that more or less can be selected in the four areas no more
thah 20 project's winners .This means that each winner program can be
financed at about 2./3. million Euro.

This means that the effective members of  a Consortium need to be
selectedpreferring the following  indications:

a) Following the social character of the @LIS program effective members
of the Consortium are preferred to belong to public or private NO FOR
PROFIT companies . The for Profit Companies can be accepted in the
Consortium remembering that their presence will lower the EU contribution
from a maximum of 80% to at the 50%.

b) Knowing that @LIS call is preferentially open to 15 European
Countries and 18 Latin American Countries , the preference need to address
to members of each consortium that able to cover with their initiatives
the maximum
possible Geographical extension  in a balanced partnership between Europe
and
Latin American Countries. It will be important that each project can
develop a
network of stakeolders that will be receive the benefices of the IS
program
development; also this stakeholder network will be forecast as well as
partners for the future auto-sustainability of the long term and long
distance program.

c) It is important to remember that in proposing he TASK-COST timetable
,  that no any profit margin for work or other issues can be accepted by
the
@LIS proposals.

d) remember that business or money is not  representing the  nervous
system for the program @LIS ; any way if the proposal do not ask for the
maximum of EU contribution  but increase the minimum of the consortium
co-financing, more that the requested 20% ; this budgetary  approach will
be preferred in the selection of  winners.


3) “MoU” recommendations

The Memorandum of Understanding in an independent agreement  among the
members of the Consortium , that will be signed  by all  representatives
of each
member, so that there are not any preferred model of MoU for the EU
commission. The only convenient suggestion at this proposal it is that the
MoU need to contain a clear allocation of EU FUNDS for each member . This
will be
very important for avoiding any disagreement in the working plan action.

4) Specific practical short recommendations

a) The application Forms  will be written in a concise approach strictly
in relation to the evaluation criteria.
b) The Application forms need to be written in only one of the languages
permitted by @LIS program (EN,ES,FR,PT) . Any way the original documents
and the sworn statements and the Curriculum (CV’s) of  the principal
responsible in managing , disseminating and of the administration of the
project and sub-projects, can be written in the original country's
languages.
c) Remember that too heavy partnership generate the need to spend to
much time in coordination that non in the demonstration proposals .
d) Remember to chose a well defined and identified area of the four @LIS
priorities and avoid to mix  them
e) Remember that the time- start declaration of  each  project , due to
the delay  of the evaluation process due to very large amount of
proposal
, need to be indicated no previous of the 1th March 2003.


As a conclusion the Head of the UNIT Europe-Aid Co-operation Office dr.
Adrianus. Koetsenruijter said that, the project’s winners , in agreement
with the  main goals of @LIS it will the that Consortia that  will be able
to
demonstrate the ability to  cover the most extended geographical area
for contacting  critical mass of  European and Latin America Citizen  with

their innovative proposal and models  for a  common IS development.

Programs’s winners will get more opportunity of  cooperation for
improving their proposals with the help of four  Agencies that are  the
following:

www.MENON.org ; www.VECAM.org ; www.AHCIET.org ; www.APISEL.org .

Now as a final personal consideration I hope that partners and friends
or stakeholders of SK-SH project idea starting from a careful
consideration
of the above short Report will open a dialog during the week 09/15 Sept. ,
for
developing the best problem saving indications for a responsible
development the BID for the @LIS CALL  that can give the best success to
our proposal in e.learning in cultural diversity.

Many thanks. Very cordially Paolo Manzelli  -
Florence  2002/ Sept./ 09

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