Advisory Committee

Our International Advisory Committee consists of about 20 European and non-European experts in the field of Virtual Campuses, each carefully selected on the basis of their experience. The Committee members are invited to comment on the findings of the Re.ViCa research during several Key Meetings that will be organised during the lifetime of the project.

Key Meetings

During the Key Meetings we will involve European and non-European experts (from South Africa, Australia, Canada and Latin America) to share their view on European initiatives as well as their own experience. This view from outside the partnership and the continent itself will be enormously helpful in identifying strengths and weaknesses common to European initiatives and to assess Europe's efforts in the light of experiences in totally different cultural contexts. It will shed a light on fundamental issues that perhaps the European partnership takes for granted and/or might suggest as daring but successful solutions to common problems. Our findings will be validated through these key meetings where dialogue between all stakeholders is stimulated.

The first of these Key Meetings took place on Wednesday 11 th June 2008 from 10.00 to 17.00 in the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal. Please find the minutes of the first key meeting here.

The second Key Meeting took place on Wednesday 3rd December from 10.00 to 17.00 in the Hotel Intercontinental, Berlin, Germany. Please find the minutes of the second key meeting here.

Members Advisory Committee

	Dr. Antti Auer	Information Management Centre, University of Jyvaskyla (Agora), Finland
	Dr. Tony Bates	Tony Bates Associates Ltd., Canada
	Prof. Dr. Peter Baumgartner	University of Krems, Austria
	Mrs. Annemie Boonen	EuroPace ivzw, Belgium
	Dr. Christian Depover	UMH, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
	Dr. Jim Devine	Dunlaoghaire Institute Art/Design/Technology, Ireland
	Dr. Bakary Diallo	African Virtual University, Kenya
	Dr. Claudio Dondi	SCIENTER, Italy
	Dr.Tom Dousma	SURF, The Netherlands
	Dr. Carl Holmberg	International Council for Open and Distant Elearning (ICDE)
	Dr Terence Karran	Lincoln University, UK
	Prof. Thierry Karsenti	Université de Montréal, Canada
	Prof. Dr. Fredric M. Litto	ABED, Brazil
	Prof. Dr. Morten Flate Paulsen	NKI Nettstudier, Norway
	Prof. Dr. Francesc Pedro	OECD, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, CERI, France
	Mr. Garry Putland	Education.au ; Education Network Australia (edna),(Australia)
	Dr. Vitor Rocio	Open University of Portugal
	Prof. Gilly Salmon	University of Leicester, UK
	Dr. Albert Sangrà	Open University of Catalonia, Spain
	Mr. Matti Sinko	TKK Dipoli, Finland
	Dr. András Szûcs	European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN)
	Mrs. Ene Tammeoru	Estonian e-Learning Development Centre, Estonia
	Dr. Martin Valcke	Ghent University, Belgium
	Prof. Herman J. van der Merwe	Teaching and Learning with Technology, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
	Mrs. Martine Vidal	Centre national d'enseignement à distance (CNED), France
	Mr. Wojciech Zielinski	The Association of Academic E-learning, Poland