Learning Layers’ Innsbruck Consortium meeting (9.-12.2.2014) was a step forward
Below I will post a shortened version of the report on the LL Consortium meeting in Innsbruck that I wrote immediately after the meeting.
This meeting was planned as a preparatory event that prepares the grounds for the Integration Meeting in Aachen (March 2014). The assumption of the coordinator was that the main activities in the two sectors will take shape as Development Projects – including some overarching or overlapping Integration Measures or Co-design and Evaluation measures. Thus, the role of technical work packages could be discussed as support to be offered for these activities.
1. Work with the sustainability scenarios & responding to the reviewers’ concerns
The sessions were opened with the overview presentation of Tobias Ley that emphasised the work with sustainability sessions and taking on board the remarks on the reviewers:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7vXuqBBjr9PendGTWh0YmJtRUU
The general idea of working with the sustainability scenarios was made transparent by the presentation of Gilbert Peffer and Tor-Arne Bellika, exemplified with the forthcoming cooperation with Norwegian and Estonian managed clusters (see the case ppt and the Wrap-up ppt in the folder). Tamsin Treasure-Jones and John Bibby presented a further developed version of the sustainability scenario in the healthcare sector:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B48qJr53GUxMU2NnNzZXT1ZkM0E
Ludger Deitmer and Pekka Kämäräinen based their presentation on the draft scenario outlined in the Barcelona review meeting and updated the picture with an insight into the key activities (Piloting, Multimedia training, Platform development) and how they are being scaled up with the support of spin-out projects. In our presentation we drew attention to the urgent uncertainty factors that need to be resolved.
2. Work in sectoral groups with focus on their Development Projects (DPs)
After these inputs there was a quick overview on the Development Projects. Before the Innsbruck meeting the partners in the Captus team had provided a timeline for mapping the schedules of different DPs and support activities that contribute to the work under the joint agenda. This was used as a basis for the whole discussion in the construction sector group.
We outlined the uncertainties in working further with the Sharing Turbine agenda (in particular the lack of continuing technical support for programming). Since the piloting with Learning Toolbox is linked to the supporting multimedia training and to the development of platform for learning and knowledge we found it difficult to draw a timeline before having the question of support solved. Taken the above mentioned uncertainty into account we came up with a tentative timeline.
3. Work in mixed groups with focus on (technical) supporting activities
The other group work sessions were paved py shorter and longer presentations on the following topics:
a) Common data modelling of Design themes/Development projects by using Conceptual maps (Cmap)
presented by Vladimir Tomberg, see https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-zb4vasFuiuRGVPbXVIMkhoZWc.
b) The offerings of WP6 to support Design teams/ Development projects with infrastructure and tools presented by Ralf Klamma; see https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Byec3A-kUd0wX1NUTG8tQ1VybnM and
c) Revisiting the earlier presentations on the Social semantic server with additional flavour from Owen Gray’s document “Social Semantic Server for Dummies”, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D4S6yAx3IFPIE4paQnoynJyc-_JLPOMoImC2M4w9HOM
4. The initiative to work with an LL Theory Camp starts to take shape
Whilst many of these sessions were used for internal knowledge sharing between partners who had not been strongly involved in each others’ work packages, one of the working groups took step forward in preparing the grounds for a common “theory camp” activity. This was triggered by the critical remarks of some of the reviewers (in Barcelona review meeting) with recommendation to review the theoretical assumptions underpinning certain work packages and to clarify the position of the LL project vis-à-vis the theories and conceptions that are used. The said working group started to develop posters to group theories and concepts for such examination, see https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B7vXuqBBjr9PZVQ2d0d3SlRYZlk.
5. Issues arising from further group work sessions
Without going into detailed reporting on further sessions it is possible to summarise their importance for the work of ITB and Pont teams with the following checklist that was taken up in the follow-up meeting on 13.2.:
– Further development of sustainability scenarios in the construction sector;
– Immediate measures to ensure technical support for SharingTurbine and Learning Toolbox;
– Synchronisation of the empirical studies for WP1 (key actor interviews) with other ongoing activities;
– Launching the ITB-Pont preparatory measures for the above mentioned“theory camp” and related work with conceptual maps;
– “Technical camp” for developers that are interested in enhancing the use of WordPress and to develop plugins that integrate WP to SSS.
– Joining the initiative group on Augmented Reality in the construction work that had a kickstart in one of the working groups and started a vivid e-mail discussion.
– Updating the Open Design Library with presentations of construction sector DPs and updating the respective LL Wiki pages.
Altogether, we took a lot of homework from the Innsbruck meeting.
More posts to come …
