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The ''Horizontal E-Learning Integrated Observation System'' ('''HELIOS''') was selected in 2004, and funded from 1 January 2005 until 31 December 2006 by the European Commission - DG Education & Culture under the eLearning programme.  

The HELIOS web site is at http://www.education-observatories.net/helios


== Summary ==

HELIOS aimed, in collaboration with the European Commission, to establish and consolidate a sustainable observation platform able to dynamically monitor the progress of e-Learning in Europe vis-à-vis policy objectives and to forecast future scenarios of e-Learning evolution, thus closing the gap between the large amount of "fragmentary" data existing today about e-Learning policies, practices, research and market and the need for understandable, usable and coherent policy-related information by European national and local policy makers.

HELIOS aimed at observing the state of development of eLearning and the impact of eLearning on the following thematic policy priorities: 
* Access to learning
* Employability
* Personal development/citizenship
* Internationalisation of Education and Training
* Organisational change
* Innovation of Education and Training

HELIOS therefore set up a reporting mechanism that produced reports every four months based on desk research and on a set of extensive surveys carried on with the support of [http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/default.asp Cedefop]'s electronic training village.

== Outcomes ==
HELIOS organised 6 seminars and produced 6 thematic reports on the following themes: 
* eLearning and Access
* eLearning and Employability,
* eLearning and Personal Development-Citizenship,
* eLearning and Internationalisation of Education & Training,
* eLearning and Organisational Change,
* eLearning and Innovation of Education & Training.

Reports can be downloaded at http://www.education-observatories.net/helios/reports/
More information on the seminars can be downloaded at http://www.education-observatories.net/helios/Seminars/

The Executive Summary of the HELIOS Yearly Report 2007 ‘e-Learning for Innovation’ presents the final results of the HELIOS Project is available at http://www.menon.org/menon/publications/HELIOS%20thematic%20report-%20Access.pdf

== Partners ==
* [[MENON]] - [[Belgium]] - '''Co-ordinator'''
* [[SCIENTER]] - [[Italy]]
* [http://www.lrf.gr/ LF, Lambrakis Research Foundation] - [[Greece]]
* [http://www.alphametrics.co.uk/ Alphametrics] - [[UK]]
* [http://www.isfol.it/ ISFOL, Istituto per lo Sviluppo della Formazione dei Lavoratori] - [[Italy]]
* [[EDEN]] - [[Hungary]]
* [http://www.fim.uni-erlangen.de/ FIM-NewLearning,Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg] - [[Germany]]




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