The 12th Edition of The International Conference Educa took place between 28 November and 1 December in Berlin.

Reuniting over 2000 participants from 73 countries, this edition had, in comparison with the previous, a clear component of globalization by differentiation, by identifying the multiple connections of the eLearning process/concept.

It has been talking very much about an acceleration of the eLearning technologies assimilation by the society, but the premises are changing continuous, if we take into account the pedagogical, theoretical and psychological point of view through the formation of transferable competences and development of mental operations and structures and a rethinking of the teaching-learning strategies and of the educational system.

What was considered at first as a niche industry today can be represented in a geometrical arborescence with ramifications to the entire social, industrial, cultural economical and educational activities.

Among the 480 participants invited to sustain scientific papers at Berlin, three Romanians were present: Prof. Univ. Dr. General Mircea Mureşan, Rector at The National Defense University “Carol I”, Prof. Univ. Dr. Ion Roceanu from The National Defense University “Carol I” and Prof. Radu Jugureanu from SIVECO Romania.

The presentation “Building a Better Future is Equivalent with Investing in our Educational System” sustained by Prof. Radu Jugureanu consisted in an overview of SEI (The Romanian IT Based Educational System), the governmental program recognized on the international plan as a best practice of the eLearning implementation.

“SIVECO Romania presence at Online Educa Berlin brings value to this conference. SIVECO Romania participates for the 4th year consecutive at this conference, being together with the Polish companies, the unique representative of the Central and Eastern Europe. The eLearning projects that you are developing in Romania are an eloquent success example of a project in European space”, declared Rebecca Stromeyer, the Director of OnLine Educa Berlin Conference.

The same as in previous years, the winners of The National Contest of Educational Software SIVECO Cup and a representative of the National Conference of Virtual Learning (CNIV) were also present: the teachers Ema Cerchez, Marinel Serban, Alexandru Perieţanu, and Dragoş Răducanu from the Computer Science High School “Grigore Moisil” Iaşi, and Grigore Albeanu, Ph.D., from UNESCO department of The University of Oradea participated at conferences and presented their results within the exhibition.

The winners of the Microsoft Prize, part of the SIVECO Cup contest, also partcipated: The National College “Nicolae Iorga” team from Vălenii de Munte composed of Adrian Mihalcea, Ştefan Crivăţ (teachers) and Codruţ Liviu Matei, Radu Sebastian Alexe, and Gabriel Tomescu (pupils).

“The real ambassadors of computer assisted education from Romania are these students and their teachers. It is amazing how these seventeen youngsters have the necessary and sufficient knowledge to sustain eLearning themes and ideas in the presence of well-known experts from all over the world. I’m absolutely convinced that with their help, with the support of their teachers - the “champion” professors (Note: the title of the “.Campion” contest translates as “champion”) that guide them in this direction, Romania will become very soon a knowledge- and power- pole of worldwide eLearning”, declared Radu Jugureanu, AeL eContent Project Manager at SIVECO Romania.