Paper submission is now closed. Thanks for the over 200 contributions submitted! We invite European academic and professional practitioners and in particular the EDEN community to contribute and share experience in Lisbon on 11-14 June 2008, when the host Universidade Aberta, the Portuguese Open University will share with us the great pleasure of their 20th Anniversary and the celebrations.
An interview can be read with the Keynote Speaker, Design Anthropologist Anne Kirah at elearningeuropa.info, about learning innovation and intercultural learning challenges, on the occasion of the approaching EDEN conference.
The venue of the Conference will be the magnificent Belém Cultural Centre, on the Tagus river side next to the Tower of Belém and the Historical Jeronimos Monastery.
2008 is the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. EDEN is also opening an important phase of intercultural activities.
We invite and welcome all members, friends, colleagues, partners, the European professional community to take part in the upcoming exciting period of dialogue, exchange of experience and networking!
EDEN is most delighted to announce that with the recent joining of the Folkuniversitetet, Sweden, the number of institutional members in the Association has reached 200.
We are also proud to welcome the prestigeous institutions having joined recently: University College Falmouth, UK, University of Saskatchewan, Canada and The Plubmbing Institute, UK
In January 2007 in Brussels, at the joint meeting of the EDEN Executive Committee and EADTU Board (European Association of Distance Teaching Universities), it was decided that such meetings would be organised annually. On 15 April 2008 in Milton Keynes at the UK Open University, EDEN President Alan Tait, Vice-President Martine Vidal and Secretary General András Szûcs met EADTU President David Vincent, Secretary General Piet Henderikx and Managing Director George Ubachs.
The Second Open Workshop Call for Papers is now available. Papers related to intelligent characteristics in innovative eLearning applications for more flexible - adaptive, cooperative and learner-centred services are awaited. The project's website.
HEXTLEARN
Quality, Higher Education and ICT. These are the keywords for a new European Union co-funded project started in this year. The three year long initiative is promoting quality in the strategic use of ICT in European Higher Education.
EAGLE
To explore the European and National Overviews on Policies, Programmes and Initiatives and the EAGLE (European Approaches to Inter-Generational Lifelong Learning) Practice Showcase on intergenerational learning, please visit the project's homepage.
MegaTrends
The MegaTrends project's results include a broad and rich list of megaproviders - some supported by well-elaborated case studies - and a list of discontinued initiatives. You are invited to read them and contribute to the MegaTrends blog.
Public Launch Of The Learnovation Stakeholders’ Roundtable
Following the initiative of nine major European networks, including EDEN, concerned with lifelong learning, e-learning and education, representatives from more than 40 key EU and national lifelong stakeholders gathered in the European Commission on the 5th of March 2008, to discuss a new vision of innovation in learning, that embeds ICT for learning as well as lifelong learning in a comprehensive and future-oriented perspective, and to share ideas and proposals on how to bring the Learnovation initiative forward.
Results of the 2008 Election of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee
Following the recent election for the Steering Committee of the Network of Academics and Professionals, 110 electronic votes were received at the EDEN Secretariat and the ballot was counted on 10 March 2008. We would like to thank all the people who participated in the election by following the procedure and sending their votes to us in time.
Recognising the value of information sharing and co-operation in the global e-learning environment, EDEN created special bilateral collaboration relations with The Observatory of Borderless Higher Education (OBHE) as well as with Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C). We are also pleased to announce that EDEN has recently joined ELIG, the European Learning Industry Group, as member of their Consultation Group.
Six position papers from the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education - OBHE, written by leaders in higher education who have been closely involved with global higher education initiatives and were part of an international forum in London last November have been received, with very insightful observations and commentaries on the topic.
In 2007, a survey was carried out in EDEN, in order to ask the members’ opinion about the achievements as well as on preferences for future developments. Responses were received from NAP members representing 87 Institutional members in 31 countries.
At the Thursday Plenary Session of the Sixth Open Classroom Conference in Stockholm, new EDEN Senior Fellow and EDEN Fellow awards have been presented by Martine Vidal, Vice President of EDEN.
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President's blog
EDEN President, Alan Tait has opened a blog to share with EDEN members and all visitors to this site more about the ways in which the role of EDEN as the premier professional and practitioners network for distance and e-learning in Europe is developing, and equally to offer the opportunity to learn from the comments and suggestions of readers of the blog about the services and features of EDEN you would like.
The picture below shows the panorama of Budapest and buildings of the University seen from the office of the Secretariat. You can explore the broader view of the panorama by moving the mouse over the picture.
2008 is the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. EDEN is also opening an important phase of intercultural activities. 
