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The AVICENNA project is dedicated to accelerating the adoption and best use of ICT-assisted Open Distance Learning (ODL) in 11 Mediterranean non-EU Member States (MNMS). Demand for ODL in the target Universities and societies already exists. The project aims at establishing adequate local infrastructures and transferring best practice and professional know-how within target universities.
It will be stimulated and met by the sensitive engagement of some of the EU's leading Open Universities and ODL providers, under the aegis of UNESCO. Together with European universities they will form a network of 15"AVICENNA Knowledge Centres" (AKCs). Adequate expert support, intensive training of key personnels in "AKCs", content sharing and translating will create the conditions for a successful take-up of ODL within the target universities and countries, while reducing the cost of such an initiative.
This implies that all the Centres respect common standards and norms with regard to technology and ODL services, including facilities for blind students. Each country has already identified its own AVICENNA Knowledge Centre (AKC).
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