Bucharest, 13 October 2009 - Can you imagine a library of educational resources selected from around the world, which teachers can access at anytime? It is not a picture from a movie, but almost a fact. ASPECT project (Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content), in which SIVECO Romania is partner aims at enriching the existing library with valuable educational content, which teachers can easily access and from which they can choose any desired material, for classrooms usage.

The ASPECT project is taking important steps in addressing the potentially damaging "disconnection" between experts and standardization specialised organizations, on one hand, and educational policy makers, ICT advisers and practitioners, on the other hand.

"From the perspective of the Ministries of Education implied in this project, or their designated national agencies, a key result would be that the teachers’ point of view, as well as that of technical experts will be taken into account during the pre-standardization process. The project emphasis a strong research and innovation component in standardization of digital educational resources," states Delia Oprea, ASPECT Project Coordinator within SIVECO Romania.

SIVECO Romania’s partners in this project are: EUN Partnership a.i.s.b.l. (EUN) BE; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) BE; Cambridge University Press (Holdings) Ltd. (CUP) UK; Universität Koblenz-Landau (KOB) DE; Instituto Nazionale di Documentazione per L’Innovazione e la Ricerca Educativa (INDIRE) IT; RWCS Limited (RWCS) UK; Vocabulary Management Group (VMG) UK; Association EIfEL, European Institute for E-Learning (EIfEL) FR; Universidad Vigo (VIGO) ES; Icodeon UK Young Digital Planet S.A. (YDP) PL; Svietimo Informaciniu Technologiju Centras Valstybes Biudzetine Istaiga (ITC) LT; EduCentrum (EduC) BE; UNI-C Danmarsk EDB-Center for Uddan (UNI-C) DK; FWU Institut fur Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht GmbH. (FWU) DE; DG Innovation and curriculum development – Ministerul Educaţiei (DGIDC) PT; Universitatea din Ljubljana (UL); Educatio Public Utility Company (EDUCATIO) HU; The Open University (OU) UK; Jyvaskylan Yliopisto, Universitatea din Jyvaskylan (JYU) FI; Centre National de Documentation Pedagogique (CNDP) FR.

The project is co-funded through the eContentPlus programme of the European Commission (contract: ECP-2007-EDU-417008), and has a budget of 4,624,997 Euro, 80% co-financed by the European Commission. Website: http://aspect.eun.org.

SIVECO Romania has an important expertise in developing European projects - CORDIS portal or for the European Aviation Safety Agency. Partnering with  prestigious international organizations, SIVECO Romania is developing important projects such as P-Cezanne (Integration of Nano-Biology and ICT to Provide a Continuous Care and Implantable Monitoring System for Diabetic patients), EduTubePlus (European curriculum related video library and hybrid e-services for the Pedagogical exploitation of video in class), ALIS (European Automated Legal Intelligent System), Ave Exemplo (Assessment, Visibility and Exploitation of non-formally acquired competencies of experienced Employees in enterprises), ACGT (Advancing Clinico-Genomics Trials on Cancer) , LD - CAST (Local Development Cooperation Actions enabled by Semantic Technology) and more.