BRT_Executive Summary

ACTeN's first Business Roundtable on eLearning was successfully held in Budapest in November 2002 at the annual DAT conference of the Hungarian Association of Content Industry which was the opening conference of the Hungarian eContent programme this year. The Hungarian eLearning market has great potentials since eLearning methods are currently not widespread. Especially public education is an untouched field in this respect. The government strategy is to increase the number of people trained in adult education yearly from 150,000 to 800,000 by 2006. However, there are training centres where distance education is performed on a high level and in international co-operation. Out of 79 projects in the IST programme (FP5) with Hungarian participation there are two eLearning projects: CELEBRATE (Context eLearning with Broadband technologies) and SCALE (Internet-based intelligent tool to Support Collaborative Argumentation-based Learning in secondary schools). Both were presented at the BRT and stimulated an intense debate. There is an urgent necessity for disseminating activities like Business Roundtables and  ACTeN in general since results of R&D projects of EU programmes are not sufficiently known even in those countries from which there is a consortium member.