International Academic Webcasting Grant for Developing Countries using openEyA

2010 WINNERS ANNOUNCED

ICTP’s Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) congratulates the winners of its first grant programme “International Academic Webcasting Grant for Developing Countries using openEyA“. The grants support the automated production of on-line scientific content (via “webinars”) and e-learning and distance education (via web lectures).

The grant is meant to contribute to capacity building and development by implementing academic webcasting using openEyA. The grantees have agreed to publish recorded lectures on the web and distribute them freely in digital form for educational purposes.

The four winners, selected from a total of 100 grant submissions, received a complete set of the openEyA recording system (worth about 650 Euros), including all necessary hardware and software.

The four grantees are:

• E-Learning Unit, Institute of Adult and Continuing Education, Makerere University, Uganda
• Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Department of Mathematics, University of Valparaiso, Chile
• Department for Open Distance Learning, University of Bucharest, Romania

Congratulations to the winners! We also thank all participants and the ICTP Mail Office who delivered the systems by courier to the winners Institutions.

The SDU Team

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About openEyA:
EyA (“Enhance your Audience”) is an innovative automated audio/video/slide recording system, developed to archive and share scientific lectures and talks carried out using digital presentations (PPT, PDF, animations, etc) as well as traditional chalkboards or whiteboards found in classrooms. The EyA system has these main features:
* no human intervention during recording and post-processing;
* scalable architecture;
* no special requirements for the speaker or lecturer;
* high-resolution images;
* low-cost ownership and implementation;
* low-bandwidth friendly features (zip, CD, DVD).

For more details about openEyA see www.openeya.org
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The Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) at the Abdus Salam International Centre  for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, is offering an academic webcasting grant to have an “off-the-shelf” solution for online learning.

The aim is to help non-profit  institutions from countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA to implement the automated production of on-line scientific content (via webinars) and e-learning and distance education (via web lectures).

The SDU grant provides a complete set of the openEyA recording system (worth  about 650 Euros), including all necessary hardware and software. It may be awarded to up to three different organizations.

The recording system consists of a Netbook, (which comes installed with openEyA and the Linux Open Source operating system), an omni-directional USB microphone, a digital camera, a webcam, and power cables.  For more details on the grant read here.

Applications must be received by Thursday 25 February 2010.

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