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WP1: Project Management and Coordination
Activity Type: Management
WP Leader: ICCS
Objectives
As the project brings together numerous partners composing a multidisciplinary
team in order to accomplish a very demanding work under a specific time schedule
the aspect of management is very crucial. The main objective is: The effective management
of the project. An effective project management system requires effective decisionmaking,
operational internal communication, and development of solid work breakdown structures,
schedules, costs and resource plans, effective administrative and technical control
of the project. The basic performance of an effective management includes assurance
that all the overall objectives of the project are achieved, confirmation that the
project results are disseminated and exploited according to plan and verification
that quality assurance requirements are followed in the most possible manner.
WP2:
Feasibility Study
Activity Type: RTD
WP Leader: INSEAD / SUIIE
Objectives
• To select
the most appropriate applications, and propose a roadmap up to the operational status
including demonstrations and technical developments in order to promote and facilitate
the use of satellite communications over Europe and beyond.
• To address all the
issues relevant to the overall viability of the use of advanced satellite networks
and infrastructure as introduced by the Rural Wings project. These include manageability
issues, acceptability of solutions to all relevant organizations and institutional
bodies, acceptability and attractiveness of the proposed solutions to all categories
of users
WP3: User Needs Analysis
Activity Type: RTD
WP Leader: INSEAD / SUIIE
Objectives
• To set the basis for the development of the scenarios that will be introduced
to the users’ communities during the project’s implementation and
• To provide the project team with all the necessary information concerning the
users’ demand in order to proceed to the Market investigation. In the framework
of this WP the consortium will perform an assessment of the users’ demand for the
satcom applications and services for distance learning and training.
WP4:
Scenarios Adaptation and Development
Activity Type: RTD
WP Leaders: EA / INSEAD
/ BGU
Objectives:
• Introduction of a new learning culture for the citizens in
rural communities. The aim of this project is not to impose solutions but rather
to empower people in all the stages of their life to invent their own solutions.
The project is going to demonstrate the use of a new generation of technologies
and applications that enable people to design, create, and learn in new ways by
themselves, helping them to become more active participants in their communities.
• Provision of a range of learning methods that will enable users to become independent
learners. The project targets several types of users. As each person has different
ways of learning and understanding, the proposed competence-based scheme should
provide a wide variety of instructional approaches. The methodology has to support
learners to work independently, co-operatively and in an increasingly self-organizing
way. This will be achieved through the development of different educational scenarios
(educational pathways) that will cover different contexts (Learning at School, Learning
at Work and Learning at Home)
WP5: Adaptation of platforms and Tools
Activity Type: RTD
WP Leader: ASTRIUM
Objectives
• To provide the end to end architecture of the
whole system
• To determine how the various offered platforms (e-learning, e-lab,
e-work telemedicine, web TV etc.) will need to evolve in order to fulfil the DVB/RCS
standard and be fully compatible with it in order to be offered through the new
technology (DVB/RCS) to the users.
• To develop a new a cognitive based open learning
system and environment that can generate creativity and a capacity of learning to
learn in the users, through the development of a new learning culture. It will offer
to the users ubiquitous access to the learning content. The Rural Wings learning
environment will be developed through the effective utilization of a wide range
of ICT applications for educational purposes
WP6A: Pilots – Implementation and Trials
Activity Type: RTD
WP Leader: EA
Objectives
• To introduce the Rural Wings system and
its applications in real environments.
• To create a worldwide network of Learning
Hubs in rural areas. These centres (in the initial phase schools, public offices
and health centres will serve as Learning Hubs) will be equipped with the necessary
infrastructure in order to support the project’s implementation. These Learning
Hubs pilot sites will serve as working models within which the project’s activities
will take place. The Learning Hubs should not emulate traditional training centres.
The Learning Hubs will be a place for digital creation, fostering the human spirit,
civic development and collective efficiency.
• Utilization of the ICT capabilities
for promoting the local community’s interests. Special attention will be given to
the use of ICTs to serve the local community’s goals. The use of ICTs is expected
to contribute strongly to the connection of the young people’s education with real
life in their community and the transformation of the Learning Hubs to communication
centres for social and economic development.
WP6B: Training of the users
Activity Type: Training
WP Leader: EA
Objectives
• To train and introduce the NC
to the new technology (DBV/RCS) and provide the necessary initial technical support
and expertise with respect to satellite-based communication network systems
• To
train and introduce the NC to the available software platforms and applications
• The NC coordinators to train and introduce the local agents (key persons form
the local communities) to the new technologies, proposed applications and to the
evaluation/validation instruments
WP7: Evaluation
Activity Type: RTD
WP Leaders:
AVANTI / TUD
Objectives
Evaluation process aims to act as a parallel procedure to
the project’s implementation phase that will synthesize the results from the project’s
implementation from an innovation perspective In the framework of this WP the project
team will try to transform the initial results to concrete recommendations to stakeholders
in the field of satellite tele-education applications and to the satellite service
providers. More specifically, the aim of the survey is to determine whether the
claimed results are valid and to obtain qualitative and quantitative evidence of
the positive impact of the DVB/RCS services and applications to the users groups
in rural areas.
WP8: Market Investigation
Activity Type: RTD
WP Leader: AVANTI
Objectives
• Evaluate whether the DVB-RCS standard is financially viable in terms of return
on investment for the main players of the market (Space industry, Telecommunication
operators, Software providers, Government representatives (e.g. EU and Worldwide
Institution and Regulatory Organisations), Content providers and Regional representatives
and local authorities).
• Identify the methods that will be followed in order to
commercialise this technology and explore the benefits for the users. Satellite
technologies constitute an infrastructure for the delivery of electronic communication
services and a wide area of applications. This market is a commercial one characterized
by an intense competition between operators and technologies.
• Identify the growth
rate of the market that the project is referring to (remote/rural areas). The work
of this Work-package will be based on the outcomes of WP.2 and WP.3 and mainly on
the Synthesis Feasibility report (Deliverable D2.3) and on the Users segmentation
and Users profile definition (Deliverable D3.1). It will also receive input from
WP7 but this will be done for the next tasks that are referring the 2nd period of
the test runs.
WP9: Dissemination
Activity Type: RTD
WP Leaders: ICCS / EDEN
Objectives
• To increase awareness about the “to date” status of the Rural Wing services and
applications and about its ultimate objectives.
• To establish ways of communication
with educational and scientific community, with organizations of standardization
and research and finally with the public that consist the end users of the providing
services. Utilizing the support of large Organisations in Europe and beyond (e.g.
CEN/ISSS, ETSI), the participant organizations from 14 European different countries,
as well as the users communities that will be participating in the pilot projects
(extends from the official national and European educational organisations, satellite
operators, industrial telecom organizations, educational policy makers, content
developers, regulatory bodies and decision makers) it has been built up complementary
channels for the dissemination of the project’s objectives, activities and outcomes
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