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It is not time to prepare proposals for the next standardisation projects in CEN/ISSS WS-LT on ICT standardisation and e-learning. The call for projects are now published, and the deadline is May 15th.

This is the relevant text from the Call:

e-Skills and e-Learning e-Skills
Following the Communication on “e-Skills for the 21st Century: Fostering Competitiveness, Growth and Jobs” of 7 September 2007 which is presenting a long term e-skills strategy for the European Union, the ESOs are invited to further develop European standards in the field of e-skills with a focus on ICT practitioners and advanced ICT users. Areas of interest include:

• European e-Competence Framework: methods and tools for the development, the promotion, the acceptance, the implementation and the maintenance and of a European e-Competence Framework;
• ICT job profiles: definition of main job profiles based on the e-Competences Framework;
• European e-Competence Curriculum Guidelines: development, the promotion and the implementation of European e-Competence curriculum guidelines to facilitate the mutual recognition of training, transparency of qualifications and credit transfer between formal, non formal and industry education and training.

e-Learning
ICT support for education and training is crucial to achieve the objectives of the European i2010 strategy (COM(2005) 229 final). The Seventh Framework Programme is continuing the support for use of ICT in education, in particular for innovation. Following the report of the Commission on “The use of ICT to support innovation and lifelong learning for all - A report on progress” of 9 October 2008 (SEC(2008) 2629 final) and that ICT for education has become one of the four transversal lines of the Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme the ESOs are invited to further develop European standards in the field of e-learning. Areas of interest include:

• Technical and semantic interoperability regarding e-learning context adaptable systems;
• E-learning content repositories and exchange mechanisms, formats and vocabularies.

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