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Information and communication technologies
for enhancing international and social access to the "grandes écoles" |
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Presentation
Participants to the 2002 ePrep Workshop ePrep offers an open platform for meetings and for exchanges aiming at launching and developing innovative projects in the domain of ICT (information and communication technologies) for education, especially for enhancing international and social access to the "Grandes écoles". The ePrep non-for-profit initiative has been launched in 2001 by Nathalie Van de Wiele, who was then a teacher in Physics in "Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles" (CPGEs), and who has been managing all ePrep activities since then, in cooperation with the ePrep community and the ePrep partners. In a first time, ePrep has particularly developed actions for the expansion and the development of CPGEs and similar establishments, in France and abroad, and, in this framework, has conducted watch activities, has produced several studies, and has organised international workshops. The year 2006 offered to ePrep new opportunities, including a participation to the R&D projects supported by the European Commission, the organisation of thematic seminars every year, the creation of a steering committee and of a development committee, and the launching of a community of practice gathering members from different institutions (teachers in CPGEs or in similar establishments, researchers in "Grandes écoles" or at the University, representative of public or private organisations). At the end of 2008, ePrep enlarges its activities beyond CPGEs, through four main axes: technology watch, studies and projects, organisation of thematic seminars, development of the ePrep Community of Practice and of its activities. Since the beginning of 2010, two projects successfully developed in an exploratory way by the ePrep Community of Practice have associated Ecole Polytechnique / ParisTech, ESSEC and ePrep to be developed in an operational way. These projects, the Francophone Platform and the Wikiprépas Web site, are renamed the SILLAGES Platform and the SILLAGES Wiki. The content developed on this Website is available under a Creative Commons License. |
