Brief description of SOL and Ecademy

SOL-Swiss Occidental Leonardo (www.s-o-l.ch) and the Ecademy Network (www.ecademy.ch) are partners from Switzerland. SOL carries out the management, testing and dissemination activities of the project whereas Ecademy participates in the content material and software development as well as the evaluation and implementation of the prototype in Switzerland.

SOL is the regional LEONARDO office for Western Switzerland (French speaking Switzerland) and has been funded in 1992 by the Swiss Ministry for Education and Science to promote and develop Swiss indirect participation in LEONARDO pilot projects. Thanks to its experience in LEONARDO project management, SOL has been setting up an important cooperation network with enterprises, educational institutions, as well as vocational and guidance centres in Switzerland and Europe and has contributed to the development of innovative prospects in the field of vocational training. SOL is currently partner in 15 pilot and mobility projects and is also carrying out student placement activities.

Ecademy is the National Network of Excellence of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences for E-Business and E-Government. Ecademy currently has 12 member institutions, from all University of Applied Sciences regions in Switzerland. The University of Applied Sciences (UAS) of Basel is the leading house. The vision and goals of Ecademy are aligned to the central idea of bringing together and coordinating the skills, focal points and resources of the full range of activities of the Universities of Applied Sciences: education, further training, applied research and development, innovative services and knowledge transfer - oriented towards (business and government) practice. Contributing to E-Study project, Ecademy hopes to develop interesting synergies with its current ICT activities as well as its executive Master in E-Business and E-Government (with US University).

Ecademy projects and focus

-        E-Government and Public Management

-        E-Commerce and Mobile Commerce

-        E-Business strategies and models of co-operation

-        Logistics and process design in E-Business

-        Technical software developments

-        Network security

-        The virtual classroom

-        E-Learning