FP7-ICT-2013-11 CP-CSA proposal 10/04/2013 IMAILE Combination of Collaborative Projects and Coordination and Support Actions (CP-CSA) for Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) ICT Call 11 FP7-ICT-2013-11 Innovative Methods for Award procedures in ICT Learning Europe IMAILE Combination of Collaborative Project and Coordination and Support Action: Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) Date of preparation: 10 of April 2013 Work programme topic addressed: ICT 2013.8.2: Technology-enhanced learning Name of the coordinating person: Ellinor Wallin International coordinator E-mail: [email protected] Participant no. * Participant organisation name Part. short Country name 1 (Coordinator) Halmstads Kommun HSTD Sweden 2 Innova Észak-Alföld Regional Inn Hungary Development and Innovation Agency 3 Klötze district KL Germany 4 City of Konnevesi C.K Finland 5 Center of Internet Excellence CIE Finland University of Oulu 6 E.N.T.E.R ENTER Austria 7 Varberg Municipality A.I Sweden Alexanderson Institute 8 INOVAMAIS - Serviços de IN+ Portugal Consultadoria em Inovação Tecnológica, S.A 9 University of Magdeburg UniM Germany 10 City council of Viladecans C.Vil Spain 11 Region Saxony Anhalt ( associated RSA Germany partner to German partners) 12 Halmstad university ( associated HH Sweden partner to Halmstad) *Please use the same participant numbering as that used in Proposal submission forms A2 1 FP7-ICT-2013-11 CP-CSA proposal 10/04/2013 IMAILE Proposal abstract In line with the FP 7 call for proposals the objective of IMAILE is to use the PCP process to identify new technologies and services which address the challenge of providing the next generation of Personal Learning Environments (PLE). This common challenge is identified by the consortium in order to meet an increased demand of personalized learning in the 21st century European classroom. The next generation PLE should address students in primary and secondary school within the topics of Science, Math and Technology (STEM) and support different learning styles in an individualized way. Furthermore the PLE should be accessible from any device and therefore adjustable to the method bring your own device (BYOD). The project will prepare and create a mutual understanding of the PCP method for the public procurers, execute a joint PCP European call and enable the research/development of ICT solutions for PLE from different suppliers evaluated through a common set of joint criteria. The PCP process and the PLE technology as a whole will be evaluated during the project in an open dialogue between public procurers and industry. This learning process contributes to set European standards within learning technologies as well as present an innovative PCP strategy for increased quality and efficiency of public procurement. The IMAILE project is offering a direct solution to both demand- and supplier side within learning technologies. The solution is developed and evaluated according to the customized needs from the demand side. While the suppliers gain a solution adoptable directly on the European market. This action will in a long term perspective contribute to a broaden and innovative use of learning technologies in primary/ secondary education as a result of effective public – private partnerships for sustainable digital learning solutions in Europe. 2 FP7-ICT-2013-11 CP-CSA proposal 10/04/2013 IMAILE Table of contents Part Content Pages SECTION 1 S&T CONCEPT 1.1 Soundness of concept and quality 1.1.1 Concept 5 of objectives 1.1.2 Topics addressed by the call 16 1.1.3 S&T objectives 17 1.1.4 Overall approach combining CP CSA parts 18 1.2 Progress beyond state of the art 1.2.1 International state of the art 22 1.2.2 Technical limitations of existing solutions 25 1.2.3 Advance with project/ main innovations 1.2.4 R&D contract scope 28 1.3 Contribution to coordination of 1.3.1 CSA activities strengthen public cooperation 30 high quality research ( CSA) 1.3.2 Radical improvements to procurement strategies 33 1.3.3 Gender and environmental perspective 34 1.4 Coordination activities and 1.4.1 Overall strategy of work plan 35 associated work plan CSA part 1.4.2 Gantt 36 Template 1.4.a Work package list 37 Template 1. 4.b List of Deliverables 38 Template 1. 4.c List of Milestones 40 Template 1.4.d WP 2 – 7 41 1.4.3 PERT diagram 55 1.4.4. Significant risks/ associated contingency plan 56 Template 1.4.e Summary of effort 58 1.5 Quality and effectiveness of S/T 1.5.1 PCP framework supporting CP part 59 Methodology relevant to CP part 1.5.2 Overall strategy 63 1.5.3 GANTT/ PERT 64 Template 1.5 .a Work package list 65 Template 1.5.b List of deliverables 66 Template 1.5.c List of Milestones 67 Template 1.5.d WP 4 68 1.5.4 Significant risks and contingency plan 70 Template 1.5 e Joint PCP contribution 73 SECTION 2 IMPLEMENTATION 2.1 Management structure and 2.1.1 Management capability of the coordinator 74 procedures 2.1.2 Overall management structure 74 2.1.3 Overall decision making structure 76 2.1.4 Methodology of monitoring the ICT pilots 78 2.1.5 Communication strategy 2.2Quality of individual participants 2.2.1 Main tasks 79 2.2.2 Previous experience 2.2.3 Associated partners 90 2.3 Quality of consortium as a whole 2.3.1 Consortium overview 92 2.3.2 Complementary among participants 92 2.3.3 Strength of consortium 93 2.3.4 Partners and tasks in each country 94 2.3. 5 Specific justifications of support organisations 95 2.3.6 Critical mass of public procurers 96 2.3.7 Industrial involvement 2.3 8 Motivation of external experts / subcontracting 2.3.9 Additional partners 97 2.4 Appropriateness of the allocation 98 and justification of recourses committed 3 FP7-ICT-2013-11 CP-CSA proposal 10/04/2013 IMAILE SECTION 3 IMPACT 3. 1 Expected impact listed in work 3.1.1 Overall approach on impact PCP and PLE 100 program 3.1.2 Impact on a more forward looking public sectors 101 3.1.3 Impact on competitiveness for PCP suppliers 102 3.1.4 Strategy for impact achievement 103 3.1.5 European dimension 104 3.1.6 Contribution to EU/ET 2020 strategy 104 3.1.7 Influence of external factors 105 3.2 Dissemination and exploitation 3.2.1 Dissemination/ exploitation plan 105 3.2.2Management of knowledge / intellectual property 108 3.3.3 Closure of proposal 109 4. Ethical issues 4.1 Children 110 4.2 Ethical issue table 111 5. Annexes 5.1 Letter of intent of CP contribution public procurers 5.2 Letter of intent Region Catalonia 4 FP7-ICT-2013-11 CP-CSA proposal 10/04/2013 IMAILE Section 1: Scientific and/or technical quality, relevant to the topics addressed by the call 1.1 Soundness of concept and quality of objectives 1.1.1 Concept Introduction According to Rationale of work program for Technology enhanced learning: “Education is a strong prerequisite for economic growth. Europe must support national efforts to help students to learn better, teachers to teach better, and school systems to become more effective. We need customized learning systems that can adapt to effective use in a wide variety of diverse contexts. This is key for a successful modernization of educational and training systems in Europe.” This is the main reason to why our consortium consisting of both public procurers in 7 different countries as well as other support organizations have decided to develop this proposal and our project IMAILE. By presenting our proposal we aim to contribute to a modern educational and training system for teaching Science, Math and Technology (STEM) in European primary and secondary schools using the PCP method in order to customize the approach. Fact is that in spite of high investments on hardware and infrastructure during the last years we still confront a fairly low use of ICT to perform innovative teaching and creative learning in our European classrooms. We firmly believe that one reason can be the lack of customized ICT products and services developed according to our needs and in collaboration direct with the end users. Background Halmstad municipality who is coordinator of this proposal is also coordinator of the successful Interreg IVA project Smil (E) www.smil-e.eu Scandinavian Methods for Innovative Learning (Europe). In the Smil (E) project School area North is the practicing partner for primary and secondary education with the content Math, Science, Technology with ICT as a tool. The project ends in December 2013 with a lot of lessons learned and best practice cross border examples as a result on how to be successful in Science Math and Technology with ICT in primary and secondary school. During the SMIL (E) project we have also detected a development need of innovative, strategic but mainly MORE INNOVATIVE procurement methods at a municipal and regional level regarding use of ICT products and services in our schools. During a Nordic School leader conference in October 2012 arranged by the Smil(E) project this discussion was continued with Nordic partners as well as the customized need of ICT learning environments for our Education system. After this school leader conference we decided to lift our cooperation from cross border to a European cooperation and involve partners/ stakeholders from European member states in order to tackle these challenges in a common approach. Our challenges I. Use procurement to reach strategic, innovative and sustainable ICT school development II. Customized learning systems / learning environments for our Education system 5 FP7-ICT-2013-11 CP-CSA proposal 10/04/2013 IMAILE Actual ICT / Education and possibilities within this call In spite of high investments in hardware and infrastructure in our schools we still don’t see the desired effect of an increased take up and innovative use of ICT in our European schools and classrooms.