OpeningupSlovenia launch and press conference

Launch and debate OpeningupSlovenia

Androulla Vassiliou - Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, DG EAC, European Commission
Jernej Pikalo - Slovenian Minister for Education
Mitja Jermol - Head of Center for Knowledge Transfer @ JSI
Fred Mulder - UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources

This panel will launch OpeningupSlovenia, a new and innovative initiative in which Slovenia as a first European member state will attempt to create a unique nationwide research platform on open education. This platform comprises of a coalition of all Slovenian universities, compulsory and vocational education institutions with technical, research and industry partners. The idea is to create an open educational system parallel to the formal one and exploit all aspects of open education, allowing rigorous, transparent, and replicable testing of open learning environments, open education theories, new business models, open organisational forms, open education computational tools, and new and emerging technologies for the educational technologies market place. Slovenia wants to attract open education experts to come and apply for Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020 calls related to ICT and aspects of open education.

Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou OpenupSlovenia speech at OCWC 2014

Press conference announcement: Slovenia to become European research environment for ICT in open education

Androulla Vassiliou - Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, DG EAC, European Commission
Jernej Pikalo - Slovenian Minister for Education
Mitja Jermol - Head of Center for Knowledge Transfer @ JSI
Fred Mulder - UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources