E.7

Impact
The consortium contains two major European networks - MENON and EFQUEL - which will play a key role in ensuring widespread impact. Particular attention is being paid (via Sero, Tieke and EITF) to policy-level recommendations and contacts at the policy and ministry level in three countries - UK, Finland and Estonia.

The links with two major conferences, Learning and Technology World Forum and EDEN Open Classroom, will also ensure good impact with the research and policy community.

The use of a high-profile new-generation High School as a pilot site will be a strong exemplar for working teachers, augmented by smaller pilots in two schools in England and two in Greece.

EU countries in the north, south, west and east of Europe are involved, and also countries with large, medium and small population. The involvement of three countries in Scandinavia and one in the Baltic states will generate a strong impact in the countries of this region.

The impact will go beyond Europe because several of the partners (including Sero, ATiT and MENON) and several key individuals within the project (including Elsebeth Sorensen and Paul Bacsich) have global reach via keynotes and other projects. (In particular Paul Bacsich has already got funding for trips to Mexico and New Zealand and has in recent years given seminars in Brazil, Canada, the Gulf States, Malaysia and Australia.)

The influence will also go beyond Europe since the European networks MENON and EFQUEL - and also several of the partners such as ATiT and TIEKE - now have influence beyond Europe, for several reasons: the growth of the European Higher Education Area, the influence of Bologna even beyond EHEA, and the increasing working they do at UNESCO and World Bank level on matters such as ICT in schools and quality in e-learning.

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