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Summary

Foreword
1. ECTN / ECT websites...
2. ECTN NewsLetter
3. ECTN2 Plenary Meeting LUND
4. ECTN Translations
5. CD-Rom version
6. Grundtvig
7. e-ASK
8. Other Networks and projects
9. Thematic Network Co-ordinators Meeting
10. Dissemination Programme
11. Miscelleaneous, New PhD ...
12. What's coming next !

Foreword

First of all, you will have to update your browsers bookmarks ! some changes occur on the Web addresses ...
A lot of work still need to be done, but the integration of the information is well on the way.

Both Grundtvig programmes are also moving fast - details will be provided in the next NewsLetter.

Best regards
P.Mimero

Please take note ...

• The ECTN website was recently updated by Anthony Smith. The task is not completed yet, but progress is being made.
• The address of the ECT Website has moved to : http://www.EChemTest.net, the former address .../ceetok/ect/ will remain active till the next March NewsLetter, then will be removed. (this is link is not anymore valid - webmaster info September 2001)

Thanks to Kalina Mutafchieva who provided the Bulgarian version of the Webpage, to add to the first 14 previously available languages. Information about the various tests now incorporates the description of the Training Test "Discover Europe".

The translation process about the informative text, is not fully completed.

>>>>> Check this item in the next NewsLetter / March 2001.

P. Mimero

All issues of this monthly bulletin are now available on-line at the ECT website address, as HTM document :
Year 2000 / Volume 1 : 9 issues (from March to December)
Year 2001 / Volume 2 : 2 issues (January and February)

P. Mimero

You should have registered your intention to attend this meeting with Anna von Barth. If you have not yet done this, please contact Anna immediately to ask if hotel accommodation is still available.

Remember this is a very important meeting that will decide the future directions of ECTN.

A. Smith

• ECTN Translator list

Many thanks to those who answered the individual mailing.
BUT some ECTN members contacted still have not answered ; please (DK, NO, PT, SE) do so ASAP, whatever your answer is, we urgently need to start.

• For accepting this job, thanks to :
• BG : Kalina M.
• CZ : Pavel D.
• DE : Hagga S.
• ES : Mariano F.
• FI : Tapio H.
• FR : Jean Claude K.
• GR : Evangelia V.
• HU : Laszlo S.
• IT : 2 competitors ... !
• LT : Mudis S.
• NL : Peter T.H.
• PL : Henryk K.
• RO : Laura B.

• No feedback : EE, IS, LV, SI
• Also thanks to those who participated in the past and who answered "No" for various reasons.

• Progress in the Tests Translation

I woul much appreciate having some feedback from the work progress regarding the :
    - Organic Libraries / Greek translation (Evangelia V.)
    - Physical Libraries / Italian (Antonio L.) and Polish (Marek F.)
    - Uni1 and Uni2 Libraries / Italian (Gustavo A.)
    - Demo Test / Slovenian (Zdenka K.)
    - and of course anything else currently under consideration or on progress ...

Volunteers to translate the chemistry test libraries into their own language are welcome to contact Pascal Mimero who can supply the necessary files.

Nothing recent - work plan will restart with the active Translator mailing list

P. Mimero

The full Grundtvig application will be submitted by the March 1st deadline, even though application forms were not available until mid-February. The application will be included with the next Newsletter.

A. Smith

• Website

The former CEETOK website has not been improved since last month. Temporarily hosted at SEFI (Brussels-BE), the belgian website http://www.eask.be, is still automatically rerouted to the actual CEETOK website address : http://www.cpe.fr/ceetok/.

• Evaluation

A second evaluation by Guildford Educational Services of the Evaluation of Core Chemistry project will take place on March 9th in Brussels - Anthony Smith, Richard Whewell and Pascal Mimero will defend the ECTN / European Chemistry Test. Funding was only available for three people to attend.

• ATHENA

Special Evaluation version 3.5.2. eu provided in Hungarian, Spanish, French, Italian and English.  It includes a demographic survey, and the Pre-University Level 2 test, and is available on a single floppy disk - in one language. Anybody who would like a copy of the disk should contact Tony Smith.

• FoodNet

Anthony Smith and Pascal Mimero will meet Elisabeth Dumoulin from the Food Science Network on February 27th 2001.They are beginning a project to provide computer-based tests.
 
• STEDE - Science Teacher Education Development in Europe

A new thematic network concerned with the education of science teachers at primary and secondary level has been created. The ECTN (Anthony Smith) has been in contact with this network - they are interested in collaborating with us on various activities (Image and Testing in particular) once they get established.

A. Smith / P. Mimero

Thematic Network Co-ordinators meeting, Brussels, February 5th, 2001

A meeting of TN co-ordinators was held in Brussels recently. We were given information about Socrates, new Thematic Networks, new application procedures, new financial rules. The main items of general interest are the following:

• An evaluation of the Socrates programme (1996-1999) has taken place. The report will be published on the web in the next two weeks - look at the DG Education and Culture web pages on the Europa server. One conclusion/recommendation is that synergies between different activities of the Socrates programme should be improved. We, the ECTN, should develop spin-off activities in Curriculum Development, for example.
• Cyprus are not eligible for funding in the 2000/2001 period, but will be eligible for 2001/2002.
• For TNs, multiannual contracts are not possible. So the ECTN2 application, which was for 3 years, has to be re-submitted each year as in the past. The deadline is March 1st 2001 - and application forms were not available until mid-February (as for the Grundtvig full application). I will do my best to produce a credible application in the time available. I believe this underlines the necessity for ECTN to create an Association that will give us some stability and sustainability.
• Contracts for the 2000/2001 period, which began on 1st September 2000, have still not been signed by the Commission, due to an error by the Commission in calculating the percentage funding of the total project costs. Because of this, very little (or no) account will be taken of the progress made so far when assessing the renewal application for 2001/2002.
• You will be somewhat relieved, and I am extremely relieved, to learn that from 2001/2002 I will no longer need to ask you to complete Academic Staff Time sheets to justify Institutional funding of the project.
• There will no longer be separate budgets for EUR-18 and Associated Countries. We can transfer money between these two headings. This will also make the accounting much easier.
• There will be NO funding for general costs - these are the administrative costs - telephone, fax, photocopies, etc - although these costs will be allowed (up to a maximum of 7% of total costs) for calculating the Inststutional funding for the project - I haven't told the Director of CPE Lyon yet!
• New thematic networks which began in 2000/2001 either as second phase projects (such as ECTN) or new projects are:
• Thematic Network Project in the Area of Languages II
• Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture and the Environment
• University Continuing Education
• Education and Training for Environment-Water
• Veterinary Education
• A Philosophy for Europe: North and South, East and West as an interdisciplinary network
• Higher Arts Education in Europe
• Humanitarian Development Studies
• Enhancing Engineering Education in Europe
• Biotechnology
• Physics
• Teacher Education and Research
• Dentistry
• European Quality Link
• Electrical and Information Engineering
• Chemistry
• Science Teacher Education Development
• Harmonisation of Laws in the area of Justice and Internal Affairs
• Biology
• Public AdministrationOccupational Therapy
• Political Science
• Planning Education
• LYSIAS II (Dissemination of Project results)
• For 2001/2002, 17 pre-proposals have been short-listed for Stage 2 from a total of 51 received.

A. Smith

What's happened after the 2000 Programme ... Souvenir, souvenir !

Souvenir from the 16th ICCE in Budapest (Hungary), August 5-10, 2000
(Photo credit : Kristiina Wähälä)


a) Budapest 1 : Kristiina Wähälä, Pascal Mimero, Terry Mitchell


b) Budapest 2 : sitting on the table on the left (Clara Magalhaes, Michael Gagan, Pascal Mimero) and in front (Richard Whewell)

Information received from SISSA / ISAS
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati / International School for Advanced Studies

A new PhD course in Structural and Functional Genomic is created in Trieste (Italy) at SISSA. International programme and staff, at the intersection of Physics and Biology. Application Deadline March 30th and October 1st, 2001. More information available at : http://www.sissa.it.

• Guilford evaluation report
• Translators list update
• Dissemination project Final Report
• ECTN2 re-application for 2001/2002
• Grundtvig application
• Tuning Higher Education Structures in Europe - a major project in which the ECTN has a role - details next month.

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