The project is central
to promoting and reinforcing the contribution of vocational training
to the process of innovation. For rich and poor alike the central innovation
of today is the move from the wired technologies of the 1990s to the
new mobile technologies of today.
Priority 5 focuses
on new technologies exploring the use of Information and Communication
Technologies in training. ICT (Information and Communication Technologies)
training is central to the policies of the Union and of the national
governments and the major hope in combatting unemployment; in some countries
like Ireland the absence of suitably qualified ICT staff is hampering
competitiveness.
The innovative character
of the Leonardo da Vinci programme shows that ICT training should not
be limited to the use of ICT in training centres but also in training
on the WWW and now harnessing the benefits of mobile technologies to
training.
The practical character
of the Leonardo da Vinci programme is ideal for this project which wishes
to put in place practical innovative solutions which will work with
real courses and real students.
