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| CUBER History |
CUBER produces a broker system. But it produces as well a community of persons
that work together. This community and its common experiences is growing during the
development of the project. This page describes some of the more and less important
events in that process. See as well the section on presentations.
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2002-03-7 / 8 | TRAIN-IT Infoday & Annual Workshop |
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| The TRAIN-IT Infoday was a special occasion for the CUBER exploitation team members Bernadette Nagl and Mariona Sanz to share experience concerning exploitation and business planning with people from other projects or potential start-ups and with experts on that subject. | ||
The programme contained interesting lectures about "Chances and Benefits for Entrepreneurs in IST" and about "Marketing and Entrepreneurship", which gave an introduction to the complete efforts on business plan writing. Further issues on the agenda were "Due Diligence", "Venture Capital - past/present/trends", "Exit Strategies and A Company's Value".
Though the event was focusing more on actual start-ups than on project initiatives, the contacts made were very valuable. For CUBER two contacts with experts are of special interest: Mr. Dave Darsch (Entrepreneur and Business Advisor) - for reviewing the CUBER Business Plan, and Mr. Jorge Vieira de Silva (MTA) - for giving feed-back on the research plan for the CUBER Market Acceptance Study.
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2002-01-28 / 30 | Technical CUBER Meeting, Barcelona / Spain |
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| In two and a half days updates on the status of the WorkPackages have been exchanged and next steps have been planned. | ||
The main focus of the first two days was on the market studies, the exploitation plans, and the evaluation in WP2. On the third day the technical WorkPackages had a common planning session. The three sunny and warm days have been as well the first oportunity to meet the new partners from the University of Poitiers and Symbia Ltd, London face-to-face.
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2002-01-25/26 | CUBER presented at ESC Platform Meeting, Madrid |
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| At the meeting of Directors and Managers of EuroStudyCentres and representatives of the EADTU CUBER was presented by Gottfried Csanyi, Claudio Loscertales, Sarah Magerkurth, and Bernadette Nagl | ||
During the ESC Platform meeting, CUBER was offered a complete morning session to present the project in general, some highlights, and topics of special interest for the EuroStudyCentres. The latter certainly included the exploitation plans and how ESCs can contribute and benefit from CUBER.
The programme for the project's session consisted of following parts:
Following discussions were mainly about the integration of ECTS in the CUBER system and about the exploitation plans. The CUBER session was very much appreciated by the meeting participants and valuable contacts were established between the ESC network partners and CUBER.
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2002-01-21 | Planning Exploitation, Barcelona / Spain |
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| Delegates of the CUBER partners met in Barcelona to develop a common business model | ||
The meeting was planned and prepared by the dissemination and sustainabiltiy group in WP8. It brought together delegates from the administrative level in order to plan the future use of the project results.
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2001-11-30 | Presentation of CUBER at the Online-Educa / Berlin, Germany |
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| CUBER invited to the focus session "Highlights from the Information Society Programme of the European Commission" | ||
CUBER was invited to the annual conference and fair in Berlin to present the project in a focus session entitled "Highlights from the Information Society Programme of the European Commission". Chaired by Veronique Maes and opened by Dr. Westhoff of the European Commission Education and Training application department the session included presentations of the EU Projects Universal, Trial-Solution, and CUBER.
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2001-11-20 | Visit of delegates of the Open Learning Foundation (OLF) |
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During a visit of a delegation of the UK based Open Learning Foundation (OLF) Reginald Ferber gave a Presentation on CUBER and its present state. The visit was part of a tour including the Open University of the Netherlands and the FernUni Hagen. In Hagen it included several presentations on web based online experiments and other developments.
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2001-11-02 | Presentation of CUBER at the EADTU Science & Technology Network Meeting, Hagen / Germany |
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| Reginald Ferber presented the project and its present state of development to the members of the network. | ||
The meeting of the Network started with a detailed presentation of the Educational Markup Language developed by the Open University of the Netherlands. After lunch CUBER was presented, followed by presentations on the MultiMedia Catalogue, active components for statistics education, and on new developments of St@tNet, a french program on statistical education. A general discussion closed the day.
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2001-09-24/25 | CUBER second Technical Verification and PMG Meeting in Hagen |
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| After 18 months of project duration CUBER had its second Review by the EU. On the next day the Projekt Management Group (PMG) met for planning the next steps. | ||
The review took place at the FernUni in Hagen. In addition to the two reviewers from the first review in January, a third reviewer was present. In the morning the WorkPackages on dissemination, user studies, meta-data generation, and ECTS presented their work. In the afternoon the first prototypes of the Authoring Interface and Search Engine as well as the alpha and usability tesing results of these components were presented.
On Tuesday the PMG met and discussed the results of the review meeting in detail. In particular the further dissemination and exploitation activities have been planned.
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2001-09-3/4 | Participation in the Concertation Meeting in Luxembourg |
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| CUBER was represented at the Concertation Meeting by Reginald Ferber. | ||
The meeting included plenary sessions that where focused on the experiences in ICT based learning made in Canada. In the parallel sessions devoted to the single concertation clusters the status of the projects and their commonalities and differences were discussed in more or less detail.
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2001-08-24 | Presentation of CUBER at the OR-World XML Workshop, Paderborn / Germany |
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| Reginald Ferber visited the workshop of the "twin-project" in the Flexible University Cluster. | ||
The EU-IST project OR-World organized an internal workshop on meta-data, XML, and the use of the meta-data editor developed in this project. Reginald Ferber presented the approach of the CUBER project in this workshop. Fields of further co-operation between the projects have been discussed. An particularly interesting point were the two apporaches to meta-data generation.
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2001-05-28/06-01 | Technical CUBER Meeting, Barcelona / Spain |
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| Most CUBER WorkPackages organized meetings in a long and hot week in the busy Catalan Capital | ||
The first two days have been devoted mainly to meetings of the meta-data and technical WorkPackages WP 3, 4, 5, and 7. On the third day the evaluation group of WP2 met to discuss the further steps. Dissemination and in particular the development of the initial Technological Implementation Plan (TIP) was discussed in a meeting of WP8. On Thursday WP9 discussed the questionnaire for current practice in course recognition procedures. In the last two days the meta-data aquisition group had first hands-on experiences with the Authoring Interface and planned the further steps in the meta-data aquisition process.
Claudio Loscertales did a great job in organizing the meeting, in particular in providing rooms for the meetings in the very dense schedules of the Barcelona universities.
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2001-04-23/24 | CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technology, Leuven / Belgium |
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| CUBER was represented as the only IST project on the meeting of the workshop by Reginald Ferber. | ||
The CEN/ISSS workshop on Learning Technology had a two day meeting at Leuven to discuss workplanning on tasks that had already commenced earlier and to prepare new calls for contributions. Beside these activities a wide range of reports on developments in IEEE LTSC , IMS , ARIADNE , CS36 (the ISO group for learning technology), EUN (the European Schoolnet), and Prometeus were given.
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2001-04-01/05 | International Conference on Distance Education and Open Learning (ICDE 2001), Düsseldorf / Germany |
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| The conference brought together about 1000 delegates from 5 continents. CUBER was presented in three talks at the Conference. | ||
Organized by the FernUni Hagen in the Congress Center Düsseldorf the conference covered many aspects from examples of print and radio based education to personalized computer based training programs delivered via the Internet. It addressed topics from the emerging competition of campus universities and traditional distance teaching universities in distance teaching to the question how HIV/Aids influences distance teaching in particular in southern Africa.
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2001-04-01 | Spring Meeting of the CUBER Project Management Group, Neuss / Germany |
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| The second meeting of the PMG was held just before the ICDE 2001 Conference in Düsseldorf and just accross the Rhine river in Neuss. | ||
The PMG members met on Sunday, April the first in the Euro Study Center Neuss. It was one of the first days of this year on which the weather looked like spring. Despite this challenge the PMG members discussed a lengthy agenda including reports of the last six months and in particular the report on the first CUBER review meeting in Brussels in January.
To be on time for the Opening Session of the ICDE 2001 in which the UOC - a partner of the CUBER consortium - was awarded with the ICDE Prize of Excellence, even lunch was replaced by a fast pizza....
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2001-01-29 | Workshop: ECTS as Basis for Generalized Course Recognition, Karlsruhe / Germany |
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| An additional workshop in the series of workshops to establish and keep contact to futur course providers and users of the CUBER system. | ||
This first workshop was held one day before the begin of the LearnTEC in Karlsruhe at the Fernstudienzentrum (study center) run in collaboration of Uni Karlsruhe and the FernUni Hagen. It consisted of two parts: in the morning session - mainly for CUBRER partners - Jörg Keller gave an introduction to ECTS and the situation in Germany, representatives from U Helsinki, U Linz, UOC described the situation in their countries. After lunch at the Hotel Kaiserhof accross the street the afternoon session was open for other interested persons as well.
Astrid Scholten from NUFFIC - the Netherlands organization for international cooperation in higher education - gave an overview on existing studies and exchange of students and courses as well as their recognition. Jörg Keller presented a position paper of Jef van den Branden on the future options of CUBER with regard to certification and provision of degrees. One central option of this position was the necessity for CUBER to become a degree awarding institution. This provoked a lively discussion on possible future roles of a service like CUBER for the recognition of credits.
Especially welcomed guests of the workshop were Jodok Bartlogg and Christian Meyerl from the EU-IST project CANDLE that gave a short introduction to their project and the common topics with CUBER.
More details on the Workshop can be found in the Report on Deliverable D8.6.
This meeting was as well the first occasion for CUBER to meet Heli Kautonen, the new WP4 leader and temporary substitute of Virva Lamminaho as WP3 leader. Virva had left U Helsinki and therefore as well CUBER the week before.
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2001-01-22 | First Technical Verification, Brussels / Belgium |
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| Nine months after the kick-off of CUBER the first review of the project was held at the Commission of the European Community in Brussels. | ||
After a "last preparations" meeting on a rainy Sunday afternoon in Brussels at the hotel Astride, Monday, 22nd was a sunny day that welcomed the CUBER review crew for their first technical verification meeting at the site of the Commision in Beaulieux.
Chaired by the project officer, two EU - appointed experts and 12 members of the CUBER team from FernUni Hagen, CNED, U Helsinki, UOC, U Linz, IMAGO, and EADTU the review consisted of four hours of presentation and constructive discussions on all aspects of the project. The presentations included the topics:
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2000-09-27/28 | PMG Meeting, Vanves / Paris /France |
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| The first meeting of the Project Management Group was held at CNED one day before the EADTU Conference. | ||
This was the first meeting of the Management Group of the project that will meet every half year in order to guide the project and its progress. Beside organisational issues on quality management and the progress reports necessary changes in the consortium were discussed.
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2000-06-16/17 | WP2 / WPL Technical Meeting, Vanves / Paris / France |
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| To prepare the evaluation plan (D1.2) and to co-ordinate the further co-operation of the workpackages a combined meeting was organized at the CNED site in Vanves right at the south west border of Paris. | ||
The evaluation plan for the projects results and major deliverables is as well one of the first deliverables of the CUBER project due at the end of the third project month. This plan was developed following a draft prepared by Gérard Weidenfeld, the WPleader of WP2 on the first day of the meeting.
The second day was devoted to the organization of structures and means for a smooth co-operation between the WorkPackages and the WPs and the overall management and co-ordination at FernUni Hagen. The dependencies among the WPs and a reporting and communication structure on the BSCW server of the project was agreed upon.
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2000-05-22/23 | WP2 Meeging on Metadata in Leuven / Belgium |
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| The first proposal for a CUBER Metadata Schema was discussed by participants from 5 Partners. | ||
The first technical meeting of CUBER was organized by WP4 leader Virva Lamminaho from the University of Helsinki and Jef van den Branden from EuroPACE 2000 in the beautiful city of Leuven at EuroPACE. During one day and a half there was an intense discussion on the best way to describe courses and course packages by meta-data. Starting points have been on the one hand side the IEEE Learning Object Model meta-data schema on the other hand side a proposal prepared by Virva. Main points of discussion were:
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2000-04-05 | Kick-Off-Meeging in Hagen / Germany |
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| On the third working day of CUBER, delegates of all the partners and the EU project officer Wim Jansen met at the Arcadeon in Hagen. | ||
The main goal of the meeting was to get the project started and to co-ordinate the work of the first months. Of course a second and may be even more important goal was to bring the persons in touch that just started to work in the project. For some of them - like the technical project manager Reginald Ferber who started to work for FernUni Hagen only on the 3rd of April - it was as well the first contact to the other partners in the project.
The main session of the day were dedicated to
Picutures from the meeting.
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