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  • Ensure that local cultural institutions (public libraries, museums and archives) benefit from and contribute to the goals of the Information Society Technologies RTD Programme 2002-2006 by developing their capacity and competence.
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  • Encourage local cultural institutions to participate in future calls for proposals by coordinating the strategies developed by local authorities, identifying research issues, establishing joint working groups and facilitating discussion for a, bringing together stakeholders including professional networks, national and local authorities and industrial players.

  • Coordinate and mobilise local cultural institutions for their new role as key players in transforming innovative technologies into helpful services for ordinary citizens, including all types of user from children, to employees and pensioners, into the Information Society, putting European cultural heritage at the service of the citizen. Go to Citizen’s Charter

  • Promote the position of local cultural institutions as intermediaries between technological modernisation and end-users, creating and delivering access to environments for intelligent heritage and cultural tourism, identifying a framework for focused research on usability and ease-of-use.
    Go to eEurope 2005

  • Contribute to strategies for preserving the European collective and community memory in all its variety, contributing to a knowledge-based economy in Europe

  • Increase sharing of best practice, by local inbstitutions produce guidelines and benchmarking tools and prepare high-impact dissemination activities.

  • Participate in the extension of the European Research Area, especially by nurturing the involvement of the countries of South East Europe that may be the next candidates for EU membership
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Calimera & IST

Objectives

Workplan

Citizen's Charter
The project will monitor and select technical developments and solutions emerging from IST, national research and industry suitable for applications responding to the needs of local cultural institutions .. more To ensure that local cultural institutions benefit from and contribute to the goals of the IST RTD Programme 2002-2006 by developing their capacity
and competence and participate actively in R&D work ... more		 The workpackages address identification of key research topics, forums for
sharing policies and best practice, usability requirements, dissemination
and training, as well as management, coordination and evaluation ... more		 European cultural heritage is a function of the collective memory of the varied cultural traditions and communities within Europe. The increasing importance of local cultural identity, combined with the potential of technology, will be a major catalyst for the take up of the ... read more

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IST Programme

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