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eTEN was supporting the deployment of trans-European e-services in the public interest. The programme aimed to accelerate the take-up of services to sustain the European social model of an inclusive, cohesive society. eTEN’s six themes included eGovernment, eHealth, eInclusion, eLearning, Services for SMEs and Trust & Security. The eTEN European Community programme finished at the end of 2006 as the funding cycles of the programme were completed. As projects will continue through 2008, 2009 and 2010, a quarterly newsletter is still published in order to provide support for the ongoing projects funded under the former eTEN programme. This newsletter is currently distributed to 3,200 recipients. You can subscribe to receive regular free copies at the eTEN website.
News from the Commission
The eTEN-eServices web portal
As the eTEN programme is progressing in its objectives to meet the new CIP challenges, so must the level of awareness and recognition about the supported projects amongst its targeted audience be stimulated and developed.
INNOVA Europe sarl has been engaged to support the European Commission in the dissemination of project results and to aid the deployment of their e-services. It will also provide a specific number of activities directed to the CIP ICT PSP National Contact Points (NCPs) network to ensure the necessary mobilisation of local actors around the programme. Direct support by the eTEN NCP Support Service is foreseen - over the next three years - to a selected number of eTEN projects; providing training, dissemination, marketing and networking support and facilitating contacts with administrations. Some other projects will also be able to benefit from the services indirectly, once the relevant contacts, support material, methodology have been created. Projects selected this year - based on a Call for Expression of Interest and a number of qualitative analyses - will be informed shortly.
The eTEN-eServices web portal (www.eten-eservices.eu) includes a specific restricted area for the directly supported projects. This web portal includes a section reserved for other stakeholders, such as regions, governments, industry and others with interest in the eTEN supported projects and the NCPs network.
ePractice portal's popularity growing – time for your project to benefit from it
Is your eTEN project already part of this good practice database? The possibilities for enhancing your project’s
visibility on ePractice.eu are great. The portal has reached close to 13,000 members, almost 30,000 unique visitors per month and features over 830 good practice cases.
ePractice is a platform exchange of good practices in eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth. Cases are written summaries of real-life projects or business solutions developed by public administrations, entrepreneurs and corporations. Case studies included in the portal are based on actual experiences, and reading them provides a picture of the challenges and dilemmas faced by the professionals in the three ePractice areas. You might also find other functionalities of the portal useful for networking, exchange of experience and dissemination of other activities of your project, organisation or company. Therefore, we encourage you to register in the ePractice portal - http://www.epractice.eu/ - and submit a case based on your project.
e-Inclusion: Be Part of it
"e-Inclusion: Be Part of It!" is the campaign to enable people to fully participate in the information society, regardless of individual or social disadvantages. The campaign is part of the European e-Inclusion Initiative, which seeks to build on all existing e-Inclusion activities and identify synergies between them and improvements in overall e-Inclusion impact. Anyone can be part of this campaign by submitting their events, projects, initiatives and experiences. By raising the visibility and sharing experiences, others can be inspired and stimulate more efficient approaches to promote e-Inclusion.
Join the campaign now at http://ec.europa.eu/einclusion and spread the word.
eGovernment: Better public services for everyone 
Follow Lars and Ingrid, a Swedish couple living in Spain, as they discover that requesting a birth certificate for their newborn baby may not be as difficult as they anticipated, thanks to Information and Communication Technologies!
Watch the animation (link)
| Info Day, Work Programme, Call for Proposals The second call for proposals of the ICT Policy Support Programme (or ICT PSP) is expected to open on 29 April 2008 and close on 9 September 2008. The evaluation of the proposals, assisted by independent experts, will take place in early October. Communication of selection results to proposers and start of negotiations are foreseen for November 2008. The draft work programme which has been approved by the programme committee has been published. The opening of this second call will follow the formal adoption by the European Commission of the Work Programme for 2008. 23 April 2008 is the date for an Information Day on the ICT PSP call for proposals 2008, which will be held at MCE Management Centre Europe, Rue de l'Aqueduc 118, B-1050 Brussels. | Info Day, Work Programme, Call for Proposals The new eGovernment website is now online at http://ec.europa.eu/egovernment. Many updated pages offer you interesting reading material and an insight to the activities undertaken and supported by the European Commission in this field. |
The eParticipation Info Day is provisionally scheduled for 20 May 2008, following the publication of the 2008 Work Programme, which is expected to be adopted by the end of April. Further information will be available on 
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News from the Projects
 | Caselex has on 17 March received the European Information Association's "EIA Award for excellence in European information provision (electronic sources category)". Caselex’ prize represents an acknowledgement of its contribution to bring highly needed case law linked to EU law from all corners of Europe into a user-friendly service where traditional access barriers, such as multiple languages, have been eliminated. On 7 April, eight highly esteemed law firms have joined Caselex to guide and review its national case law linked to EU law, bringing a boost to the case law coverage and its new alert service “Caselex Weekly”. Caselex is deploying the first premium information service to offer the most important national and European case law linked to the European Union's commercial areas of law, without need for multilingual and multinational legal skills. More |
 | The HEALTH OPTIMUM telemedicine project promotes the implementation of telematic Trans-European networks. It is now in its Initial Deployment phase, where the existing services and new ones will be deployed in regions within five countries: Denmark, Italy, Romania Spain and Sweden. Each region will be deploying the most suitable set of services according to their needs. For example, in Regione Veneto, the selected two services are Neurosurgical Tele-counselling and Tele-laboratory. The expected outcome of this phase is an operational system running to the benefit of patients and clinicians throughout the Region. More |
 | The "In the Lab of Tomorrow" (InLOT) project is organising its mid-term conference, entitled "Innovative teaching in School Environments – wishful thinking or actual reality". The conference will take place in Tyrol on 14 of May 2008. More InLOT aims at investigating the feasibility of a successful and innovative service for science teaching and learning as a business case. The project looks upon informal science education as an opportunity to transcend from traditional classroom based teaching, to a “feel and interact” user experience, allowing for learning “anytime, anywhere”. More |
 | The deployment of the e-Health administration services improving healthcare access procedures for mobile citizens across the EU is growing. NETC@RDS has recently extended the service sites to additional hospitals and emergency units in France, Germany, Italy and Slovakia. The launch of these new sites and the overall aim of the project have been raising the interest of politicians, at national and European level, for the consequences on welfare and citizens mobility domains. The project has also recently revised its website at http://netcards-project.com. NETC@RDS successfully tested the electronic version of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC). In its current deployment phase the project aims to offer operational services in all targeted sites, thus a total of 305 sites, supplying 566 service points across the 15 participating countries. More |
This section of the Newsletter introduces recently launched eTEN projects. More details are available on the eTEN website.
 | BLOOM or Bite-sized Learning Opportunities On Mobiles aims to deliver workplace training for the logistics and passenger transport sectors in contextualised basic skills using a variety of mobile phone technologies. It addresses the findings of recent studies that identified wide-scale basic skills shortages and the negative impact of this on the industries and the individual. More |
 | Eurogene will address health care issues through a special online e-service in Europe. The service will screen pre-symptomatic, higher risk patients, and will identify through genetics and environmental analysis the preventive interventions to reduce danger factor levels; people who require medical care will be given diet/lifestyle advice and will be prescribed suitable medication when appropriate. More |
 | euromuse.net is a public access portal providing multilingual information on museums and their exhibitions throughout Europe. euromuse.net offers both, a ‘one-stop’ web tool to the greatest exhibitions in Europe for the public as well as a special data interface called Harmonise to deliver structured data from the museums for the tourism sector. More |
 | The i-SeT service is an internet based tool-set that targets the integration of the value chain of Small and Medium-sized Hospitality Organizations (SMHOs) by supporting their management activities and providing specific services for customers, employers, other SMHOs, hoteliers, public authorities and the wider public. More |
 | Wesign - implemented by Chambers of Commerce in 9 countries – aims at enhancing the access of SMEs to digital certificates. These certificates allow SMEs to sign documents electronically or to access eGovernment services. More |
Events and Conferences
 | ICT 2008, November 2008, Lyon - Call for Exhibits – The ICT 2008 Exhibition intends to show concrete results of research in and around Europe related to information and communications technologies. This call for exhibition is open to any organisation involved in European research and development as well as deployment projects and associated support activities. The deadline for submission of exhibition ideas is 5 May 2008 at 12h00 CET. This year's ICT event - the largest research event in Europe in 2008 - will examine European Union priorities in ICT research for over €2 billion of funding available in 2009-2010, the major current technological trends which impact upon strategic research planning and public research policies to stimulate research and innovation. More |
| | ePractice Mid-Term workshop, 19 May 2008: The one-day event will be held in Brussels by the ePractice.eu portal, in the European Commission’s premises, with the presence of high-level officials responsible of the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth European policies and relevant experts from the private and public sectors. Discussions around the cases will allow participants not only to network and learn from each other, but also to share their views with the Commission on three hot topics: one-stop-shops (eGovernment session), local authorities agenda (eInclusion session) and eHealth procurement (eHealth session). The final agenda including cases and keynote speakers will be published shortly. More |
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