Agenda Gunnar Landgren, prorector (5 min)
Welcome
Research and education links between KTH and universities in the Baltic states
Anders Comstedt, CEO of Stokab (5 min)
The fiber cable in the light of the Stockholm regional development agreement
Probono capacity for research and education
Kurt Lundgren (15 min)
Sweden Silicon Valley Link
Wallenberg Global Learning Network
Distributed courses:
Communication Systems Design (CSD)
Global Entrepreneurial Leadership (GEL)
The Latvia-Sweden-Link
Brad Johanson, the iSpace security project in the CSD course (3 min)
Oscar Falkman: BalticOpen.net, also a project in the CSD course (10 min)
Mike Cao: the GEL course (2 min)
Questions, discussion, demos (10 min)
including the exisiting link to Ventspils and underwater pictures
Gunnar Landgren
Welcome
Research and education links between KTH and universities in the Baltic states
Anders Comstedt, Stokab
The new cable in the context of the Regional development agreement between the region of Stockholm and the Swedish Government
Pro Bono capacity for Research and Development
Sweden Silion Valley Link (SSVL) 1995-99
Political initiative: Swedish campuses abroad
Wallenberg foundation sponsoring research
Link KTH-Stanford sponsored by Telia
Mission: to explore of future of academic life in the light of the emerging global information infrastructure
SSVL Results
Research cooperation becomes more efficient but no structural change expected
Focus on the impact on education and interaction with society
KTH Online, group supporting faculty with pedagogical development, authoring tools and distribution of networked learning material
Globally distributed courses involving external stakeholders
Technology licensing
Wallenberg Global Learning Network (WGLN) 1999-
More universities involved (Uppsala, Karolinska, Karlsruhe, Mannheim)
Mission: Research and development of IT-supported frameworks enhancing the learning experience
Wallenberg Hall, center at Stanford for research on learning
Some 20 projects
Example: The iSpace project
Validation in Distributed courses
Global Entrepreneurial Leadership
Communication Systems Design
Latvia - Sweden Link
Research Cooperation
Distributed Courses
EU FP6 project: EuropeOpen.net
Stockholm, Luleå
Catalonia/Barcelona
Amsterdam
London
Bremen
Riga/Ventspils
Brad Johanson
the distributed iSpace security project
Oscar Falkman: BalticOpen.net
The fiber cable Stockholm Gotland Ventspils Nafta
Transmission
Connection Ventspils Nafta-VeA
VeA iSpace
RTU and VeA invited to GEL and CSD
Mike Cao
the Global Enrepreneurial Leadership course
Questions, discussion Kurt Lundgren moderator
Current link to Ventspils
Underwater pictures
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