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Current Projects
PLOEGIS Project - From Information to Knowledge
Because of the high demands of the digitised era and the Information Society (use of new technologies for the effective handling of the information and the knowledge update), many innovative changes have occured in the educational field which continuously produce new challenges in Higher Education. These changes influence the Academic Libraries also, the role of which focuses on the development and the provision of organised databases with the use of the World Wide Web, as well as the creation of information "literated" users, capable of taking advantage of the electronic information possibilities through a friendly user interface.
PLOEGIS project moves towards two directions: electronic text offering and training of "information literated" people. It aims, therefore, to develop Library services which will focus on the creation, best organisation and electronic content provision, such as the provision of information literacy, in order to support the Educational Programs with modern methods, to make the Library users' research easier, to eliminate the social exclusion from education and, finally, to support distance and life-long education.
The project takes place under the Action Line 2.1.3: «ENHANCEMENT AND ENRICHMENT OF THE LIBRARIES», Action Category d: "Enhancement and Enrichment of the Academic Libraries" of the Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training ΙΙ (OPEIVT ΙΙ) of the 3rd Community Support Framework and is 75% co-funded by the European Union (European Social Fund) and 25% by National resources (Hellenic Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs/Managing Authority of OPEIVT).
Duration of the Project: from 1-7-2000 until 31-12-2007. Budget: €2.498.474 Project Co-ordinator: Anna Fragkou, Library Director of University of Macedonia.
University of Macedonia Central Library's Equipment (OPEIVT II/European Regional Development Fund)
The project took place in the Action 5.2.1 framework: «HIGHER EDUCATION LIBRARIES», Action Category b: "Equipment of Central Libraries" of the Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training ΙΙ (OPEIVT ΙΙ) and is 75% co-funded by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) and 25% by National resources (Hellenic Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs/Managing Authority of OPEIVT).
Duration of the Project: from 15-10-2002 until 7-10-2004. Budget: €112.057,52 Project Co-ordinator: Anna Fragkou, Library Director of University of Macedonia. Analytical Project description (available only in greek)
Libraries, museums, archives and other local institutions can find new ways to engage with their users through the COINE Project. It harnesses information technology to help people use information, photographs, audio recordings and other objects of interest to them in new ways. The idea behind the COINE Research and Development Project was to enable people to tell their own stories.
ACCELERATE ACCEss to the modern Library sERvices for the blind and pArtially sighTEd people
The ACCELERATE project (ACCEss to the modern Library sERvices for the blind and pARtially sighTEd people)aims to offer access to all visually impaired users, students, professors, researchers, etc., to all modern Library services. New technologies now offer possibilities for high class services to visually impaired readers, so that they can have access to any information source that a modern Library provides.
In the framework of the ACCELΕRATE program, a modern workstation with special supportive equipment for blind and partially sighted people has been installed in the Library of University of Macedonia.
University of Macedonia Library's modernization. OPEIVT I
From 1996 and until the end of 1999, the Library took on the materialization of the project "Modernization of the University of Macedonia Library", which was carried out in the Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training (OPEIVT) framework and was funded, through the Hellenic Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs, from the 2nd Community Support Framework.
The following documents are available only in greek:
Initial Plan Template OPEIVT-NDC (project identity, aims, analytical description, phases and projects, time plan, budget plan, costs)
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