EASA

The winners of the EASA Award 2004

(17:30 Monday 27 September 2004) Academics wine and dine online at European e-learning awards in Switzerland European Academic Software Awards 2004. The finals of EASA2004 was held in Switzerland, 25-27 th of September 2004 in Le Locle and Neuchâtel.

Amongst the thirty finalists of EASA 2004, held in Neuchatel today, was a software package to help train managers of Bordeaux vineyards. As only virtual grapes were involved, no bribery was used to appeal to the finer side of the 22 jurors from 9 European countries who had the difficult task of shortlisting the prizewinners over the weekend.

The ten winners of the EASA 2004 awards are (country and subject area shown in parentheses):
Learning objects for programming (UK, computer science)
Mol4D (Netherlands, chemistry)
Sybil (UK, arts and humanities)
ILSAP / Steeluniversity.org (UK, engineering )
Virtual Radiography (Sweden, medicine)
ZAP (Netherlands, social science)
Finite Element Transfer (Switzerland, engineering)
The French Paradox (France, economics)
AVQM (Austria, physics)
Planets and Satellites (Russia, physics)
More information about the winners.click here

Special prize for research tools shared between
Carrot 2 (Poland, computer science) and
A.I. search (Germany, computer science)

Special prize for teaching tools awarded to
SMIRK (UK, generic and community solutions)

For more informatoin about the contest contact: rriachi (et) brookes.ac.uk

To see the Final Programme click on this link. To see the Sponsors of the event click this link

Submissions have been received from 19 European Countries. 158 participants were selected for the contest. Here are the 30 that has been selected for the finals. Click on this link

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In connection with the EASA-finals the 6th International Conference on New Educational Environments (ICNEEhttp://www.icnee.ch) and the Annual Days of the Swiss Virtual Campus (http://www.virtualcampus.ch/) will be arranged September 27-30. Organisers are EKMA, the Swiss EKMA-group, the University of Applied Sciences, Le Locle, the University of Neuchâtel, the Berne University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering and Information Technology and the Swiss Virtual Campus.

Contact person: Randoald Corfu, Université de Neuchâtel, Institut d'informatique et intelligence artificielle, Rue Emile-Argand 13, 2007 Neuchâtel email : Web page

The European Academic Software Awards, EASA, is a biennial competition for developers of academic software within higher education and research in Europe organised by the European Knowledge Media Association, EKMA.

Below are a poster for the conferences