ALS Project Partners
The ALS project's beneficiary is the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The project is coordinated by the University of Warwick, UK, and comprises a total of seven partners:
- Technical University of Eindhoven (NL)
- Warwick University (UK)
- Johannes Kepler University (AT)
- National College of Ireland (IE)
- Bauhaus-University Weimar (DE)
- Turpin Vision Ltd. (NL)
- SOFTWIN (RO)
Technical University Eindhoven
The Technical University Eindhoven (TU/e), established in 1956, intends to be a research-driven, design-oriented university of technology, with the primary objective of providing young people with an academic education within the engineering science and technology domain.
In the research field the TU/e prefers to focus, within the engineering science and technology domain, on the specific areas in which it takes or can take a significant role in the international scientific world, and in which it can make meaningful contributions to the knowledge-intensive industries and other sectors of the community with a high, or rapidly developing, technology intensity.
URL: www.tue.nl
University of Warwick
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The University of Warwick is a campus university located on the outskirts of Coventry, West Midlands, UK. It was established in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education. Warwick has grown to become one of the highest-ranked universities in the UK. Currently Warwick has almost 15.000 students in a wide variety of subjects.
URL: www.warwick.ac.uk
Johannes Kepler University
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Johannes Kepler University (JKU) views itself as a centre of competence for solving complex societal, economic, technical and legal problems. This includes all members involved in teaching, research and services.
JKU disposes of a very specific and unique potential concerning the multidisciplinary variety and interdisciplinary co-operation of its three faculties: social sciences and economics, law, natural sciences and engineering. JKU is the only Austrian university combining these areas and being a campus type university. Despite large student numbers (in several study fields) this situation allows for a relative closeness of teachers and students.
National College of Ireland
The National College of Ireland (NCI), established in 1951, is a non profit, third-level College whose mission is to provide a centre of academic excellence, to create opportunities for students to succeed and to facilitate access to education for all groups. NCI identifies educational needs and responds to them through innovative and flexible delivery systems, including distance education and on-line learning technologies, which provide educational access regardless of geographical location. NCI's student profile is unique, over 80% of its students are working adults. The current enrolment is over 5,500 students.In this project, NCI is leader of the work-packages on 'Case Studies &
Evaluation' as well as 'Dissemination & Exploitation'.
URL: www.ncirl.ie
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is an institution with a rich tradition reaching back to the famous Bauhaus design school in the 1920s. The Faculty of Media was founded in 1996, the CSCW Group, headed by Prof. Dr. Tom Gross, was established in 2003. The group does research based on a human-centred computing perspective, which aims to develop technological concepts and systems based on an understanding of how people interact with and communicate through computing technologies. The research include the fields group awareness and context support as well as novel user interfaces concentrating on mobile, ambient and web-based solutions.
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is managing the work package 'Component development and integration'.
URL: www.uni-weimar.de
Turpin Vision Ltd.
Since it’s foundation in 1995, Turpin Vision is developing didactical multimedia productions for educational institutes at various levels, for industry and for publishers. In 1998, it developed the browser based authoring and learning content management system Content-e. Starting in 2005, Turpin Vision is developing Content-e new generation. This will be an open source product for Windows and Linux servers and clients.
URL: www.tv.nl
SOFTWIN
SOFTWIN is the leading provider of complex software solutions and services in Romania. SOFTWIN business lines are: eContent Solutions, System Integration & Software Application Development, Business Management Consulting, CRM services and solutions, and Security Information Services. In order to implement its distributed solutions or to implement its CRM services, SOFTWIN realised documentations and organized trainings (including training the trainers). SOFTWIN developed also educational content for two different LMS (Learning Management System) and stand-alone educational applications.
URL: www.softwin.ro