National Funds for Learning Infrastructure in 2013

In the year 2013, the project Learning Infrastructure will develop infrastructure ath the Swiss universities with a volume of 2.1Mio Swiss Francs. 50% of the amount are federal funds, the other 50% are funded by the universities. The federal contribution is part of the programme CUS 2013-2016 P-2 "Information scientifique: accès, traitement et sauvegarde". The participating institutions are: EPFL, ETHZ, FHNW, FHO, SUPSI, UniBAS, UniBE, UniFR, UniGE, Unil, UZH, ZFH, and SWITCH.

The project is subdivided into 24 work packages covering the topics:

• e-assessments
• personal learning and working environments
• e-portfolios
• life-long learning and e-identity

It is obvious that some of the topics are covering activities of the e-identity project. In particular, I'd like to particularly point out the following work packages:

• Requirement Analysis of Integrated Collaboration in Life-Long- Learning Environments
• Identifying, Testing and Selecting Collaboration Environments and Feature Requests
• Integration of 3rd party Environments with e-portfolios and institutional services
• Life Long Learning at University
• Pilot and Evaluation of Collaboration Environments
• Development of e-Portfolio Support Material
• Introducing the Personal Learning Environment in an HE Institution
• Drill-and-Practice Functionalities for Personal Learning Environment
• Cloud-ready Personalized Research and Learning Environments

In the following work packages SWITCH is a contributing member, and I will be actively collaborating:

• Long-term Storage of Forgery-Proof Certificates in Use Centric Environments
• Using the e-Portfolio as Base for a Long-Term Digital Identity

More information about this project that is relevant for the e-identity topic will continuously be published here in this channel.

Rolf Brugger