CEENet
Central and Eastern European Networking Association
Projects

• CEENet'00 Technology Workshop Pre-course
• CEENet'00 Technology Workshop Pre-course REQUIREMENTS
• Monhx Project
• IT training for CEEC
• NREN Creation Cookbook  (in Russian)
• ADULINE Project
  Tutoring Adults Online @duline is a Transnational Cooperation Project (TCP) under the Socrates Grundtvig 1 programme. The aim of the project is to promote lifelong learning and the use of online learning among adult educators. Concrete outputs of the projects will be produced by experts from eight countries and will result in two evaluated courses for tutors with web-based materials translated into seven different languages (English, Estonian, Lithuanian, Swedish, Danish, Finish, Portuguese). The names of the courses are
  
  Course design Course and
  Online Tutoring Course
  
  The aim of the project is to continue collaboration among the partners and also to include new organizations during and after the project in 2005. International educational markets are on the horizon. There is a need to strengthen the European network in different subjects and at different educational levels. Online learning is a suitable method for delivering international education because distances become insignificant and interaction is the heart of network. It gains an alternative to expensive travelling, but this project also provides the opportunity to build a network among European countries in other training processes. Also other networks and collaborating partners have shown interest in adding collaboration with colleagues in other countries. The project will produce basic material for the topics and they will be translated to the national languages of the partners. Since this work will be done during the project, there will be no pressure to have high study fees after the project funding finishes. Evaluations will provide feedback on how to continue within the networking project and how to embed the project for the future.
• ANTITESYS Project
  The objective of the project is to address the shortage of highly skilled personnel in designing and manufacturing embedded systems. The consortium is composed by four European technical schools (Politecnico di Milano; ALaRI Institute in Lugano; EPF Lausanne; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), CEENet and by a group of microelectronics and related companies (ST Microelectronics, Mentor Italia and TXT in Italy; IPLS in Ireland; IMEC in Belgium; INTRACOM in Greece; Infineon in Germany).
  
  The project provides for a number of training initiatives, built around the "Master of Engineering in Embedded Systems Design" held at ALaRI. They are: grants for students from candidate countries; support to joint master projects with industry; dissemination of course contents through summer schools and in-house courses at industry's premises; set-up of a mobility scheme for students (ECTS) and of a support infrastructure for remote learning and tutoring.
• PORTA OPTICA STUDY (POS) Project
  "Dark fiber" is the new paradigm in the research networking around the world. It is the only transmission medium providing virtually unlimited capacity and flexibility in network development. The possession of fiber means for NRENs freedom, sustainability and predictive costs. Dark-fiber based NRENs have the flexibility of network design and technology choice. Such networks allow for fixed cost of use of the infrastructure and at the same time provide upgradeability to Tbit/s, as the user demands grow. NRENs that already recognized these benefits have had their transmission capacities soared and the range of their infrastructure expanded. On the other hand, European networking faces great "digital divide", clearly visible at the eastern and southeastern border of European Union.
  
  Porta Optica Study is a project co-funded by the European Commission as the Specific Support Activity ,with the ultimate goal of the stimulation and consolidation of initiatives to ensure the successful, dark-fiber based research network deployment in the Eastern Europe, Baltic states and Southern Caucasus regions.

Updated Feb 2006 by Jacek Gajewski