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 Saarbrücken, 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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Dr. Helko Lehmann represented the MERLOT consortium at the panel discussion “AI in Education” on June 1st at LEARNTEC. He reported on the various data-secure AI-powered digital assistants and recommendation systems that will be developed within the MERLOT project to support learners in educational and career orientation or to accompany citizens in lifelong learning. On…
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Sebastian Steinbuss, CTO of IDSA, pulls the fourth version of the "IDS-RAM" out of his hat at the IDSA stand at the Hanover Fair.
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MERLOT was also present in the Gaia-X Cube of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (Hall 2, Booth C34). On May 31st, Diana Dikke and Dr. Helko Lehmann exchanged ideas with the visitors. They talked about the ambitious goals of the project and how Gaia-X will change education for individuals.
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“Digital Sovereignty: Clarification of Technical and Practical Implementation Issues” In one of the two keynote presentations at the workshop “Digital Sovereignty: Clarification of Technical and Practical Implementation Issues” on May 23rd, 2022, Dr. Helko Lehmann presented special requirements of the MERLOT project resulting from the handling of personal data: Users must be enabled to handle…
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Education data spaces: why data sovereignty is essential to lifelong learning Education is one of the most important areas where the European Union is driving the emergence of data spaces. Dynamic job demands require lifelong learning with changing education providers. People collect education data and credentials, need to manage them securely, provide access to providers…
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At the beginning of 2022, the MERLOT (MarkEtplace foR LifelOng educaTional data spaces and smart service provisioning) project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), was officially launched. On January 31st and February 1st, all consortium partners met for the virtual kick-off meeting. With a lot of motivation, the…
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