CELGAS - Conventional and e-Learning Gas Engineering Centre

WP6: Diffusion and Dissemination Process

The Objectives

The new innovative Open and Long Distance Learning method used in vocational training of gas engineers will be disseminated in various ways related to:

1. Content of courses published by WWW servers
2. Forum of experts open to the whole Internet community
3. Organizing several workshops connected to regional countries vocational conferences of gas engineers
4. Publishing series of brochures about topics on courses
5. Organizing meetings with regional engineers community
6. Preparing papers about aims and content of each e-Learning training

Start and Finish date and overall duration

Total overall duration of task: 643 days (30 month - from beginning). See tables for timetable of whole Project.

Total number of staff days

	WP6
Managers (ISCO 1)	34
Researchers (ISCO 210, 220, 240)	50
Teachers/trainers (ISCO 230)	30
Technical (ISCO 3)	30
Administrative (ISCO 4)	18

Role and task of partners

This is main role of partner P6 -Central Mining Institute, the high quality institution with excellent experience in the dissemination project, guaranties high quality diffusion and crossover to the post Pilot Project phase. The continuation of CeLGAS in the commerce phase is planed. In the future - the partners have willingness to bring Master of Science study into being - in the mixed - conventional and eLearning system. All partners are strongly engaged in the task starting from beginning of Project. The details are below and in the Gantt table (attached).

P6:	responsible for task
P1,P2,P3,P4,P5,P6,P7:	Prepare the detailed program of dissemination for Project. Organize workshops, conferences, exhibitions, presentations etc.
P6:	Prepare detailed program of dissemination of Project
P4:	Internal quality iteration

Fig. SEQ Fig. \* ARABIC 2 WP6: Diffusion and Dissemination Project

The working methods and techniques

See scope of work of the whole Project. The CelGas Project will enhance and build a new generation vocational education model into European dimension. These innovative proposals formulate tasks in seven important topics related to main technological, ecological, and economic and management problems. The Project is related to the underground and surface technical problems of natural gas engineering.

The expected outcomes/results of the work package

The Project will enhance and build new generation vocational education model into European dimension. Analysis of the regional needs for vocational training in the gas engineering related areas must be done before beginning of the second phase of project (see WP2). The main outcome of the Pilot Project will be constructed and managed by an Internet Vocational Educational Centre that will sustain the development of the Community of Practices based on specialists, common training topics, expanded research competencies, and contact information. This is the core output and the main tool of the Pilot Project and the main effects of this Centre will be creating the new Educational Environments that will facilitate the transfer of knowledge and skills within the partners and from the research to practical application. The information in the Learning Centre and Vocational Forum Database will be based on the core competencies of the Pilot Partners having a structure that is easy to use and update. The use of the Internet-based learning environments allows extended access to the E-Training for engineers regardless of the location of the learning site and creates also the schedule flexibility required for learners actively engaged at their working places.

Fig. SEQ Fig._ \* ARABIC 7 Proposed activities in the dissemination of Project (WP6)

There is much type of dissemination ways which is planed in the Project (see fig. 3):

1. Publishing brochures
2. Oral presentation of Pilot programme
3. Permanent exhibitions (at Universities)
4. Temporary exhibitions
5. Conventional and Internet forums
6. WWW server described programme
7. International conferences in Poland, Germany, Romania, Slovakia etc
8. Country vocational conferences: oral presentations, poster presentation, multimedia presentations
9. Vocational press announces: in periodical press and special report issues
10. Local press information: interview, forum relation
11. Advertisements in local and vocational press

Dissemination strategy is divided in 3 phases

Phase I.
Actions will concentrate on informing about the project ('informative promotion') and enrolling ('persuasive promotion') representatives of target groups, target sectors and potential users of the project results. During pilot phase work on the course recruited institutions will take role of testers of the course ('beta testers'). Based on results, partners will be able to create the course which best fulfils their needs and is most efficient in teaching. As the course will be finished they will be ready to take part in it.

Phase II.
Actions focused on informing about progress of the work on the course. Work on successive chapters of the course will generate:

• absolutely new materials on education of gas engineering
• articles which summarises compiled materials

These brand new materials will be:

• used on conferences organized by partners
• published in magazines, e-zones etc.

Phase III.
Promotion focused on launching the final products of the teaching/training. Final phase of the project will match with the peak of promotion activities.

During the project many of its results will be freely available in the Internet - fully or partly: Internauts will have access to unfinished parts of the course and could share with their opinions etc. especially at established forum. Finished chapters of the course (which present the core of the course) will be successively published in the Internet. General Forum focused on Gas Engineering will be operative from the very beginning of the project (not more than after 3-4 months since project starts). Already as the project lasts, many representatives of all concerned groups will be informed about the project, moreover, involved in participating in it.

This will guide to situation where potential participants of the courses will be already waiting for the finish of the project. Addresses gained during the dissemination process will allow informing all interested institutions and individuals about the end of the project and availability of its results.

Dissemination target groups

I. A promotional campaign in magazines targeted on gas engineering companies issues (especially: on training, courses engineers and technician)

• articles
• advertisements
• promotion at WWW Vortals
• conferences
• creating promotional materials that will be distributed among gas companies
• involving in the project institutions, chambers of commerce, etc.

II. Dissemination strategy for universities and training institutions promotional campaign in magazines targeted on SME issues (especially: on training, courses)

• articles
• advertisements
• promotion at WWW Educational Vortals targeted on educational sector
• creating promotional materials that will be distributed among gas companies
• articles and advertisements in publications published by partners (especially: universities), e.g. bulletins, scripts,

The Scientific & Vocational Program Committee
There will be established The Scientific Program Committee consisting of:

• academic professors engaged in gas engineering
• business representatives interested in expansion and competitiveness of gas companies on the European market

III. Dissemination on local/national level -Dissemination on European level (including other countries not only the partners')
Actions taken during the period of the project will lead to the situation when even after finishing the project dissemination continues. This self-ongoing process will be able due to information exchange. After finishing the project WWW Site will play a role as a promotional material. Because during the dissemination process its address (URL) will be registered in directories, positioned in search machines it will promote the project long after EU funding ends. After finishing the project the dissemination strategy could take form of "Reinforcement promotion" and not the form of informative and/or persuasive promotion activities.