Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação – SPI

(Coordinator)

Augusto Medina

(President of the Board)

(Project Coordinator)

Hugo Magalhães (Project Manager)

Address: Avenida Marechal

Gomes da Costa, 1370

4150 - 356 Porto - Portugal

Phone: +351 22 607 64 00

Fax: +351 22 609 91 64

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URL: http://www.spieurope.eu

SPI, coordinator of openED, is a multi-discipline international consultancy and training firm based in Portugal and founded in 1996. The company is an active centre of national and international networks connected to the innovation sector, having as its mission the management of projects that foster innovation and promote international opportunities.

In addition to its headquarters in Porto, Portugal, SPI has offices in Lisboa, Coimbra (both in Portugal), USA, Spain, Angola and China, giving its clients access to a number of contacts in key institutions worldwide and a wealth of experience in a multitude of areas. SPI conducts activities in many different fields offering services in consulting, R&D, training and in distance learning through an e-Learning platform and the development and implementation of e-Learning courses.

The Open University

James Aczel

Phone: + 44 1908 654 861

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URL: http://www.open.ac.uk

The UK Open University (OU) is Europe’s largest educational establishment, with more than 200,000 students studying courses at undergraduate, masters and PhD level, mostly at a distance. It is also a major research university with key areas of excellence in space science, geography/geology, the humanities, mathematics and computing and - of particular relevance to this project - education and educational technology. It has an open access philosophy requiring no previous qualifications to begin study.

Since 1969, the OU has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available. More recently, the OU has released over 5000 hours of learning material online through OpenLearn, a major Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative supported by the Hewlett Foundation.

ELIG – European Learning Industry Group

Richard Straub

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URL: http://www.elig.org

ELIG is an open industry group with members representing the value chain for the 21st century learning solutions. Innovation in learning, knowledge creation and dissemination are central to ELIG’s endeavours.

ELIG’s mission is targeted towards the following areas:

- Providing policy input at a European level and as appropriate at country/region level;

- Acting as a communication channel to the marketplace, representing the position of the industry;

- Constituting a platform for cooperation, sharing and concerted action for its members;

- Being a pragmatic thought leader by leveraging the 'collective intelligence' of the ELIG membership.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Ioannis Stamelos

Phone: +30 6945 756 900

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URL: http://www.auth.gr/home

AUTH is the largest higher educational institution in Greece with over 2000 permanent staff and 95000 students.  In 2006 edition of the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier), AUTH is ranked 9th worldwide among the top institutions (both academy and industry) in the field of Systems and Software Engineering. The Software Engineering Group (SWENG) is a research group of the Programming Languages and Software Engineering (PlaSE) lab, which belongs to the department of informatics ( one of the 37 departments or schools). PlaSE is involved in teaching and research of various fields of informatics such as Information Systems, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Commerce, etc. The SWENG group deals with research, development and teaching of software engineering in general, and, in particular, all aspects related to software quality, cost, reliability, software development process of Closed-source and Open Source Software, and eXtreme Programming and Agile methods.

Hellenic Management Association

Yannis Kalivas

Phone: +30 2102 112 000

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URL: http://www.eede.gr

EEDE / HMA, founded in 1962, aims at the study, promotion and promulgation of modern management principles and practices in Greek enterprises and organisations. From its early moments, HMA has been pursuing public interest and educational goals, mainly pertaining to the organisation of professional training at executive level for enterprise and institution staff. At present, HMA employs 81 people and is the leading scientific and management training organisation in Greece that strongly supports Greek enterprises and private and public organisations in achieving a successful adjustment to an international competitive environment and to a unified Europe. HMA, with an experience of more than 45 years in the field of management has participated in many Community-funded programs and today counts 4500 members, 400 of which are enterprises and organizations, while the rest administrative executives, University professors and others.

HES-SO// University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

Mathias Rossi

Pascale Hardy

Phone: +41 32 424 49 00

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URL: http://www.hes-so.ch

HES-SO is the largest professional higher education network in Switzerland. It currently hosts some 15'000 students.

Its 27 schools located in the cantons of Fribourg, Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel, Valais, Vaud and Berne, its 33 sites offer courses and other services in six major fields of study: Engineering and Architecture, Management and Services, Design and Fine Arts, Health, Social Work and Music and Theater.