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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