The American University in Bulgaria (
www.aubg.bg) would like to invite prospective partners to join their application for an EU-funded Comparative Study of .LRN, WebCT, and Blackboard (preliminary work on the application is already underway).
The only requirement is that the institutions are from a country eligible for this funding, which includes all European Union Member States plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Turkey.
Anyone interested in getting their institutions in touch with AUBG, please send an email to, both, John Galletly at ( jgalletly ~ at ~ aubg.bg ) and Volin Karagiozov at ( vkaragiozov ~ at ~ aubg.bg ), please ASAP, since the deadline is March 18, 2004.
In general, we are looking for partners who either have experience with .LRN, WebCT, or Blackboard already, or who are planning an install within about 6 months. The proposal is planned to include disseminating the results within Europe (but also to the larger .LRN community and target base, of course) and urging local institutions to consider them and then participate in workshops to discuss them, etc. AUBG will focus on Southeast Europe, other partners can focus on their respective "neighborhoods", etc. This would also differentiate our efforts from what EduTools is doing, for example.
The last thing to mention, at this point, is that at least 5 partners from 5 different eligible countries are needed for an application for this funding, which is known as the Socrates Programme.
If you'd also like to keep the rest of us posted, it's a once-in-four-years opportunity to post on Feb 29th, if you do it today :)
