Europe’s future economy and society are being formed in the classrooms of today. Students need to be both well educated in their chosen field and digitally literate if they are to take part effectively in tomorrow’s knowledge society. Europe also needs to make learning a lifelong endeavour, with people of all ages continuously developing their skills. Based on the Commission paper “the use of ICT to support innovation and lifelong learning for all“,mobilelearning brings many benefits.

The main purpose of the GameMob project will be to research mobile phones devices available in the market and mobile operating systems to identify those mobile platforms most useful for M-learning. Concurrently, a systematic review will be carried out on the use of mobile games within education to identify characteristics that support effective learning. In order to test and explore these characteristics a set of serious games applications for mobile phones and an accompanying toolkit to allow educators to adapt and deploy the games will be created and evaluated with a wide range of students.

Project details:
* Project title: Learning with Mobile Games (GameMob)
* Estimated duration: 24 months
* Estimated budget: 725.771 €
* Type of project/action: LifeLong learning Key Activity 3 (ICT) Multilateral project.
* Project status: Presentation date 2010
* Participants:

1. Master Distancia S.A.
2. Steinbeis Transfer Centre International Technological Cooperation
3. The Cracow centre of the Improvement of Educational Personnel.
4. Mavis Oy
5. University of the West of Scotland
6. Tallin University
7. University of Cyprus

The IT services in Europe represents some 168 billion Euro in 2008, and expected to grown by around 9 billion Euro in 2009 which means and increase of 5.5% not only this but around a third of European organisations have postponed due to the lack of skills. At the same time companies find enormous difficulties at the time of hiring high qualified staff.

Technology lies on a very changing environment. Master-D in collaboration with other prestigious entities will develop a project which main purpose will be find a balance in that environment.

The way to do it will be by developing education courses to train students, workers and unemployed on new technologies an how to face changes. Sometimes the first an hardest barriers in the acknowledged that we have on a matter, especially when is as arduous as this one. We´ll sweep that problem away.

Project details:

• Project title: New E-competences for Europe
• Estimated duration: 24 months
• Estimated budget: 314119 €
• Type of project/action: Leonardo da Vinci/Multilateral projects for the Development of innovation
• Project status: presentation date 2010.
• Participants:

1. Master Distancia S.A.
2. Instititiúid Teicneolaíochta Trá Lí, ITT
3. M2A Technologies SARL
4. Thuringian Association of Adult Education Centres
5. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
6. EDEN