From the 14.06.2023 to the 16.06.2023 the European MOOC Stakeholder Summit (EMOOCs, https://emoocs.hpi.de/) took place in Potsdam, Germany. The EMOOCs is the most important conference for European Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Stakeholders with many renowned participants outside of Europe. The importance of metadata for finding and recommending courses up to the creation of complete…
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Moving forward towards a digital education marketplace 🚀 – with this goal in mind, the MERLOT project partners met in Potsdam this week. “At this consortium meeting, I noticed very positively that the various work teams are networking more and more intensively with each other and coordinating their work. Regarding the cross-divisional technical solutions, everyone…
Read article Digital technology offers significant political, economic, and societal opportunities. At the same time, the notion of digital sovereignty has become a leitmotif in German discourse. This concept is understood as the state’s capacity to assume its responsibilities and safeguard society’s—and the individual’s—ability to shape the digital transformation in a self-determined way. The education sector is…
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The Didacta 2023, one of the largest education fairs in Europe, put career in its focus. The new offer for students did not only inspire them but also teachers and companies. The focus of interest was the development of a career assistant as part of the MERLOT project and the innovative workbook for finding a…
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The task of the Center for Cognitive Science (CCS) in MERLOT Within the larger MERLOT project, the Center for Cognitive Science (CCS) deals, among other things, with the ethical, legal and social impact (ELSI) of the developed MERLOT solutions. This includes conducting studies with different groups of the target audience as well as conducting workshops…
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The Gaia-X project MERLOT has successfully completed its first project year! We have learned a lot. We collaborated with stakeholders within and outside the consortium, we discussed, aligned, designed, validated, and re-designed again. We experimented with different concepts and solutions. This was an exciting, creative, demanding, fast-moving and extremely productive year. Here are two main…
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The second Consortium Meeting of the Gaia-X MERLOT project took place at the 29th and 30th of November 2022 in Dortmund, organised by International Data Spaces Association (IDSA). During the two-days meeting the project partners reviewed the progress of the first year and planned for the upcoming activities aiming at the first MVP-release of MERLOT…
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The European cloud initiative Gaia-X is entering the realization phase. Federated services play a central role in the projects. An article by our consortium partner IONOS’ Rainer Sträter in CIO Online (in German).
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20th – 21st June 2022 At the MERLOT consortium meeting on June 20th and 21st in SaarbrĂĽcken, the project partners agreed on the further progress of their work packages and further developed the overall picture of their vision for the MERLOT education marketplace. In the discussions during the meeting, the nearly 30 participants developed new…
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