Traduction de «educational multimedia service » (Anglais → Français) :

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to launch, with the e-Learning initiative, an ambitious European policy for developing high-quality educational multimedia software, content and services that are adapted to the needs of teaching and professional training;

16. Reiterates the value of a life-long learning approach to education and training, notably in information technology, entrepreneurial skills and educational multimedia products and services, and urges the Commission to help SMEs commercialise research funded through the Fifth Framework Programme and to strengthen the European Union's support to initiatives such as business angels networks, technology parks and university incubators;

(iii) to implement support actions at European level, in particular to share experience and information about products and services in the field of multimedia educational software and, in this context, to propose methods for assistance and advice in the selection of qualitative and pedagogical multimedia resources; the establishment of cross-border links between producers, users and managers of education and training systems in order to promote qualit ...[+++]y in products and services and better correspondence between supply and demand; to support information and communication actions and European-wide debate in all the above matters;

Special attention should be paid to developing where appropriate multimedia support centres within the Member States, and to communication between teachers and education partners, and to training in its broadest sense, - take steps to: = experiment, in the context of working out and encouraging flexible patterns of school or university organization, their integration with the information and communication technologies, in order to increase their effectiveness and dissemination, = ensure equal opportunities in access to the benefits of multimedia technologies for personal and professional development, and favour their use in rural areas o ...[+++]r those suffering from industrial decline, = experiment with the use of these new tools to fight against social exclusion and scholastic failure, - encourage the evaluation and dissemination of best teaching practices based on experiments and on the use of multimedia educational software and services, spread the information on products and services and consider locally the establishment or consolidation of demonstration and promotion fora on this basis, - seek out the most efficient management methods for coordinated actions between cultural, educational and training programmes and research programmes, taking account of the opportunities offered by the appropriate Community instruments.

The type of services which will benefit will include: interactive audiovisual and multimedia services for businesses, educational and public institutions; information services providing access to data bases, remote data processing, electronic mail, transaction services (such as financial transactions, commercial data transfer, teleshopping and telereservations), corporate voice services and other value added services.

Preparatory action is underway involving feasibility studies and pilot projects costing 22 million ecus in the domains of EURO-ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network, involving health care, teleworking, education, applications for small and medium-sized enterprises and desktop/multimedia services. Following a mandate from the Essen European Council in December last year, the Commission has established a high level group to define the criteria for the setting up of environmental networks. The idea is for member s ...[+++]tates to join in developing projects of common interest for environmental protection or improvement such as waste management or water policy. In terms of the transport networks, assessing the progress of the 14 priority projects is complicated by the fact that these are long-term infrastructure projects, necessarily cross-border: it may be that there is substantial progress in one section of a project and no action elsewhere. Establishing the proper legal framework for the TENs has been greatly hampered by disagreement between Member States and the European Parliament as to whether to include the priority projects as agreed at Essen and an article on the need for environmental assessments - to which the Commission is committed. Of greater long term concern to the Commission is the perceived reluctance of national governments to adapt their national priorities to building the TENs network. While welcoming the potential benefits - competitiveness, job creation and economic cohesion - many countries behave as if construction and funding are the job of someone else. This is reflected in terms of slow progress in defining projects (eg. the Munich-Verona ie.Brenner), conflicting scheduling on the part of national authorities either side of a border (eg. PBKAL, HST-East), failure to resolve financing questions (eg PBKAL, Brenner, HST-East) and inability to from multinational project authorities to co- ordinate work on projects (eg. PBKAL, Brenner).