E.3

Innovative Character
The project relates to "innovation" in 3 ways:


 * 1) There has been no global study of major ICT implementations in schools and colleges which attempts to draw input relevant to the EU from a truly global set of exemplars and a comprehensive set of relevant countries out of the over 200 countries* across all populated continents - the vast majority of projects analyse just one subcontinental region (EU,  Africa, Oceania, etc) or take input from just a few countries (OECD etc). The nearest in scope was Re.ViCa and its focus was higher education only - also it did not set out to be a comprehensive global study; though after the project finished additional work was done to provide at least a minimal level of global coverage. (Our view is that "starting" a global study requires a different approach from "growing" a regional study to a global study.)
 * 2) There has been no many-country study in the area of ICT in schools and colleges that has made widespread use of web 2.0 technologies to collect and deliver information.
 * 3) The project aims to provide innovative solutions to clearly identified needs for clearly identified target groups (14-21). It does not aim to do this by developing a brand-new solution not yet available in any of the countries participating in the Lifelong Learning Programme; it will achieve this  by adapting and transferring innovative approaches which already exist in other countries outside the EU (or in the EU but not widely known, perhaps for linguistic reasons). The key aspects of innovation that the project is looking for across the world in schools and colleges are "innovation in scale" and "innovation in sustainability", in other words large-scale routinised solutions which are aligned with pedagogy and institutional/national goals, from socio-economic contexts with some relevance to EU realities so that transferability of the solutions is not infeasible.


 * see vuni:All_countries_by_population

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