The TELL-ME project (Technology Enhanced Learning Livinglab for Manufacturing Environments) aims to develop and trial in authentic contexts (SME-driven human-centric and service-oriented manufacturing workplaces) an innovative cross-enterprise methodology and IT platforms for continuous education and training in heterogeneous business ecosystems, blending Precision Teaching (PT) lifelong learning and Living Lab (LL) participative co-creation aspects in ways that can address more business needs than traditional training.

THE PROJECT

The TELL-ME solutions aim at creating a networking environment that fosters cross-organisational learning. TELL ME pilots also explore innovation mechanisms to better address the needs of SMEs in sectors without an established tradition in the adoption of learning solutions and facing innovation and competitiveness challenges deriving from efficiency needs or new processes/products development.

TELL ME will develop a new training methodology as a novel business-training model based upon a high-fluency approach popular in industry.

The TELL ME model thus has the credentials to overcome organisational, inter-organisational and individual barriers to widespread adoption of the developed technologies into industrial SMEs belonging to sectors only marginally addressed in the past by TEL methods and tools.

TELL-ME will blend several complementary technologies:

• Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Precision Teaching & Learning Design
• Content Management System
• Semantic web (ontologies and metadata)

CONSORTIUM

A consolidated research group with a renowned academic and industrial profile.

• TXT E-SOLUTIONS SPA (IT)
• THE OPEN UNIVERSITY (UK)
• AARBA – ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RADICAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS (IT)
• ALFAMICRO-SISTEMAS DE COMPUTADORES, LDA (PT)
• IMAGES & CO LIMITED (UK)
• KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN (SE)
• LABORATOIRE VIRTUEL EUROPEEN DANS LE DOMAINE DE L’INTEROPERABILITE DES ENTREPRISES (AISBL IVLAB) (FR)
• VTT TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS (FI)
• POLYMEDIA SPA (IT)
• ALGOWATT SPA (IT)
• DEUTSCHE INSTITUTE FUR TEXTIL- UND FASERFORSCHUNG DENKENDORF (DE)
• PROFITEX TEXTIL SERVICE HELMBRECHTS GMBH & CO KG (DE)
• AGUSTA WESTLAND SPA (IT)
• AIDIMA, ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO EN LA INDUSTRIA DEL MUEBLE Y AFINES (ES)