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30-30 January 2006, Rome (Italy)

The Italian Minister for Innovation and Technologies and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)  organized a "Conference on the Future Digital Economy: Digital Content Creation, Distribution and Access" at the Istituto San Michele, Rome (Italy).

8-9 December 2005, Luxembourg

The aim of this conference is threefold:

  • To give an overview of the state of the art in measurement of the knowledge economy worldwide;
  • To identify major challenges for statistics with a special focus on the adjusted Lisbon agenda and gaps in the European Statistical System;
  • To brainstorm on possible solutions.

For this conference, a diversified group of speakers with a broad international background presented their views on the Knowledge Economy and the challenges ahead. Three parallel workshops were organised.


Source: EUROSTAT

EUCoop Campus reflective journal pilot sessionThe EUCoop Campus reflective journal, as part of the two-year European cooperative mobility project, has been tested during a study visit to two cooperatives in the Almería region of Spain. The reflective journal is part of a "Values and Principles" unit being developed for the EU Leonardo da Vinci-funded EuCoop Campus project, and is designed to provide structure and accredited learning for members of cooperatives.

ACTIF-Europe provides its expertise and experience of ECVET approaches to support the design and the assessment of the EUCoop Campus programmes.

Kick off meeting EUCoopCoop Campus is an ECVET European project for Cooperative Values improvement in management skills.

Since the autumn 2012, ACTIF Europe has been involved with co-operatives from eight different countries across Europe to share their expertise and experience through the European Coop Campus project. This project is supported by the Leonardo da Vinci European programme and aims at looking at joint accredited programmes to improve Cooperative values in management skills for Coop Elected members.

This report provides an analysis of the state of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Research and Development activities in the European Union. This is the fourth report of a series which is published annually. This year’s report provides data up to 2008.