EuroPACE is a European non-profit association of universities
and their partners in education and training, e.g. private companies, international networks and governmental institutions. The main objective of EuroPACE is to foster networked e-learning for virtual mobility, for internationalisation of higher education, for knowledge creation and sharing and for lifelong learning. Its main interests are innovation in education, new educational technologies, quality in e-learning and e-learning competences and skills. Its target groups are higher education institutions, private companies and policy-making bodies. The main activities of EuroPACE are research and development through projects, networking, expert advice, events and publishing of reports, papers and presentations.

Catholic University of Leuven - AVNet department has as main aim to be an interface at the university for networked e-learning in an international context, i.e. to support local university teachers in the internationalisation of their education by using ICT with advise, design, development, implementation, and training, and vice versa, to assess (inter)national trends, to encourage local university teachers to participate in (inter)national activities and to translate (inter)national initiatives to the local and/or regional setting. AVNet has participated in a number of research projects on virtual education, e-learning and technology-enhanced learning in general.

ATiT is a Belgian audio-visual and IT company active in the field of education and culture, its mission is to support the effective integration of technology into the learning context and ATiT staff have significant expertise and experience in mediating between technology providers and educational users. ATiT has several specific areas of expertise including audio visual and multimedia production, the set-up and management of cross-border trials and projects implementing ICT based systems for educational networks, assessment, evaluation and review of technology enhanced learning systems, training and staff development and support to ICT, supported learning initiatives in the development context including consultancy to agencies like the World Bank, DflD (UK) and UNESCO.

Teknillinen korkeakoulu, Koulutuskeskus Dipoli
Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli of Helsinki University of Technology (TKK Dipoli)
Teknillinen korkeakoulu ( TKK , Helsinki University of Technology) is the oldest and largest university of technology in Finland. TKK has four faculties with nineteen degree programmes and three separate units one of them being Koulutuskeskus Dipoli ( TKK Dipoli , Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli). It was awarded by the Finnish Ministry of Education the status of University of Excellence in Adult Education for 2007-2009.
TKK Dipoli is one of the largest continuing education providers among universities in its field in Europe. The institute is involved daily in lifelong learning and technology-enhanced learning practice. TKK Dipoli develops, manages, and coordinates lifelong learning and professional development programmes. It combines international networks, the solid technological know-how of the university, and the business experience of industry to support management and technological development. TKK Dipoli has hosted until 2007 the teaching and learning support unit of TKK, and the Finnish Virtual University .
Global networking is an essential part of the activities of the Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli. TKK Dipoli has been coordinator or partner in a great number of national, European and world-wide R&D and training projects and programmes.

Nyugat-Magayarországi Egyetem- Geoinformatikai Foiskolai Kar (University of West-Hungary, College of Geoinformatics) is the leading institution in Hungary in continuing professional education on Land Surveying, Geoinformatics and Land Management. The college is involved in various flexible education programmes for land management giving professional development services to engineers, technicians, and executives. International co-operation of College of Geoinformatics is oriented at the development of education. Several projects where College has participated aimed at the issues of interactive use of GIS, development of distance learning courses, education for continuing professional development, development of knowledge in land administration matters, and development of networking between universities.

UNINETTUNO-Network The International Telematic University UNINETTUNO, established by Ministry Decree (April 2005) has been realised to valorise and enlarge the telematic didactic system settled by Consorzio NETTUNO (founded in 1992), enlarged at Euro-Mediterranean level thanks to the Med Net’U Project (Mediterranean Network of Universities- Eumedis Programme)in which a network was established among 31 partners of 11 countries of the Euromediterranean area, aimed at designing and realizing university courses at a distance in a multilingual format. With UNINETTUNO, the Universities of the different countries are actually creating shared knowledge networks together and cooperate to deliver multilingual international university degrees at a distance.


FernUniversität in Hagen. With its tradition of supported distance learning, the FernUniversität has been offering an alternative to on-campus studies within the German university landscape for 30 years and is currently serving around 45.000 students. Supported distance learning with a maximum independence and flexibility, making it particularly suitable for would-be students whose personal circumstances prevent them from studying at conventional universities.

Université de Strasbourg. Strasbourg University gathers about 42.000 students and 5.200 engineers, technicians, workers and administrative staff. The University is interdisciplinary and covers virtually the whole spectrum of knowledge. It is a member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and its top-level research places it among the foremost French and European universities.


Matic Media Ltd is an e-learning consultancy firm operating from Sheffield, England, but with an international reach and perspective. First set up by Paul Bacsich in 1996, it now has a wide range of clients from the education, government and corporate sectors, in the UK and abroad, as well as intergovernmental agencies including EU and UNESCO.