evaluation

Getting to Grips with Rural Citizens' ICT Needs

RURALeNTER is an initiative which will review the types of ICT services available in rural communities in Greece, Austria, Romania and Spain with a view to finding out just how much rural citizens know about the value such services can have.

It will also develop and deliver a generic training curriculum in these countries focusing on how to prepare rural adults to use and exploit ICT services, by means of blended learning models.

This initiative is partially supported under the Lifelong Learning Programme and will create a set of policy recommendations to policy makers and regional authorities about the ways in which rural citizens can take advantage of ICT services.  ATiT staff are involved in the evauation of this initiative. Find out more from the RURALeNTER website.

Training sessions for research project evaluation in Amman, Jordan

ATiT is providing training sessions for SRTD, the Support to Research and Technological Development and Innovation Initiatives and Strategies in Jordan. SRTD is a programme of the European Union to enhance the capacity in research, together with the Jordan Higher Council for Science and Technology. The programme consists of Part 1: An Introduction to Proposal Evaluation, and Part 2: An Overview of Evaluator Capacities and Skills, with a special focus on the European Commission 7th Framework Programme. More than 40 researchers from industry, academia as well as from support organisations attended the 4 days of workshops and instruction at the Amman International Hotel in Amman, Jordan, from 13 till 16 December 2009.