Dear Ulf and dear all,
Realizing that our knowledge generate an idea, one year ago, that is now becoming visible, is not a dream born from a nightmare but a secure path for all that work on it.
Who works in Education and Training knows how important is to have visions and make them real.
We believe on the new vision for Education in Europe, shared and caring about others, trough and with technology.
Portugal and their citizens,massivelly and activelly are participating on the elearninglisboa.
A small country with an important deficit on education levels, but showing afirmation and awareness of their Education and Training elites. We hope to have great chances to learn more and become better european citizens.
Etelberto Costa

Marc Rosenberg on expectations on Lisbon Conference 2007

Extract from Interview published on http://www.elearningeuropa.info/

What are your expectations for the EU eLearning Conference 2007?
I always enjoy hearing about what is going on in Europe with regard to e-learning. While I understand that government can’t do everything, I am impressed with the value the EU has placed on technology-based learning. It is a great catalyst. I am also looking forward to the enthusiasm that I always find when I travel to the EU. As this is the first EU eLearning conference that I will be attending, I hope to learn as much as I can during my stay.

Message from the Technical-Scientific Committee President

The forthcoming eLearning 2007 Conference which takes place in Lisbon, 15-16 October 2007, is the 4th major EU Conference of the kind following Helsinki (July 2006) and Brussels (May 2005).

This year’s event develops under the general umbrella ‘Delivering on the Lisbon Agenda’. The Conference is a unique opportunity to address a renewed eLearning role against a backdrop of outstanding challenges facing Europe in the next years. The selected themes will bring together contributions from a remarkable group of speakers to discuss cutting-edge eLearning issues like Inclusion, Knowledge Sharing, Informal Learning, Communities, Skills, Quality and Valuation.

The construct of a common vision on the future of ICT-embedded learning capable of inspiring a new generation of integrated approaches to sustain Learning and Knowledge Societies lies at the heart of this initiative.

At a fundamental crossroad of European construction it is timely to bring back the learning agenda to the very core of the European Union efforts to cooperate, to innovate, and to compete.

Europeans can – should – stand together in the pursuit of standards of excellence in learning designed to better serve peoples, communities, societies, economies and institutions.

After all, Europe is a continent forged of genuine intellectual advancement and underpinned by relentless learning.



Roberto Carneiro
President of the Technical-Scientific Committee

Are we ambitious enough?

In my oppinion the most critical issues that to my opinion should be discussed on the conference are the following:

• are the goals set by organizations in Human Resource Development and learning ambitious enough?
• How to make the results more visible and with a good added demonstration effect?

One of my expectations on the conference is to learn more about the best praxis of SMART organizations.

The "hottest" message of my talk is to encourage us to think about finding new wikipedia-like approaches in e-learning in order to create a potential for the “explosion” of modern knowledge. E-learning should become more user-friendly and attractive – a solution could be a combination of e-learning, t-learning and m-learning.

Dr. Atis Kapenieks

Opening Plenary 1: Delivering on the Lisbon Agenda

For me, "delivering on the Lisbon agenda" at this event implies being able to point to specific ways in which, aided by eLearning, we can each play a part in helping Europe to maintain or improve its global standing, both on direct measures of competitiveness (such as economic performance, innovation, R&D output, competencies of citizens) and on indirect measures (such as equality of opportunity, personal happiness, consideration for less developed countries).

I look forward to exciting discussions of such issues in the Opening Plenary (where I am a speaker) and in the following sessions. eLearning Lisboa is a great opportunity to share ideas and experiences of how each of us can contribute to achievement of the Lisbon goals, as individuals, as employees or employers, as members of communities, as EU citizens and as world citizens.

Welcome to the eLearning Conference 2007 Blog

Dear eLearning Conference delegates, dear audience!

With only a short time to go we wish to provide this Blog as THE interactive conference space for announcements, discussion and sharing opinions and viewpoints - all around the eLearning Conference 2007 in Lisboa.

We invite you to share your thoughts and expectations on the conference.

• As a speaker: What will you talk about?
• As a participant: With which agenda do you arrive - what do you believe should be done in eLearning in Europe?
• As a conference organiser: What would you like to see as an outcome of the conference?
• ...

Share your expectations and your inner convictions! Read your colleagues'!

Throughout the conference this space will be a vibrant space, featuring frequent updates of our conference rapporteurs, showing podcasts from the conference voices.

We look forward to reading you thoughts!

Warm welcome, Ulf Ehlers
(for the eLearning Conference Lisboa 2007)