ATI Overview

The Advanced Training Institute (ATI) will act as an "interactive portal" human supported service which aims to identify and offer Kaleidoscope competencies to potential interested groups - this as a first step to initiate consulting and flexible tailored training activities to these groups of interests involving expert members from Kaleidoscope.

ATI aims at spreading out the Kaleidoscope excellence in TEL towards other EC projects and initiatives which need TEL related competencies and expertise, such as running projects from other strategic objectives of the 6FP Programme, Erasmus projects, eEurope related projects, national TEL projects, etc.

ATI aims at mediate customized TEL training and consultancy as a kind of active ('push') dissemination strategy by targeting an audience including teachers, TEL experts, Human Resources managers, policy makers, researchers in other areas. Thus the Kaleidoscope achievements could reach diverse target groups which could influence the educational developments in different communities, institutions, companies, and countries. Such activities will be initiated by establishing direct working cooperation lines with the above mentioned audiences by using different channels to access them. AIDA, Dissemination as well as the Users' Group are among the channels through which expectations and needs of groups interested in Kaleidoscope research outcomes will be identified. ATI should be the interface facilitating and mediating Kaleidoscope answering to them.

Starting as a simple human supported interactive portal, ATI long term vision is to evolve into a virtual organisation with main tasks to identify and match-make (broker) the Kaleidoscope competencies to potential outside requests, and ensure organisational, technological, methodological and appropriate training/consultancy delivery mediate through the common project resources. The ATI activities are implemented through Kaleidoscope distributed network of organisations and/or researchers.

ATI mediated training/consultancy can be provided both face-to-face (including by special workshops, tutorials or seminars at some TEL related events), and on-line. ATI activities will be strongly linked with the Dissemination KJA and will make dissemination more active and interactive with already established communities of interests.