(b) maintenance of an eLearning portal, providing an easy, one-stop access to European activities in the fields of e-learning and to existing information sources, directories, databases, or knowledge repositories; and facilitating user-friendly access to EU programmes, projects, studies, reports and working groups;

These projects should develop new models for cooperation between European higher education institutions, in particular addressing the provision of continuous training and professional development, and in the development of learning support services as well as for training teachers, trainers and other educational personnel in the pedagogical use of e-learning; examining quality assurance methods; the development of a better understanding of organisational change and possible risks associated with implementing e-learning in higher education; and the development of European models for public-private partnerships in the field of e-learnin ...[+++]g in higher education, as well as developing the opportunities opened by new partnerships and funding models.

- subsidies covering a maximum of 80 % of the eligible costs for eLearning partnerships led by higher education institutions, aiming at providing an "e-learning dimension" and new models for European higher education (action line 2),

(c) electronic and mobile commerce, as well as technologies for secure transactions and infrastructures, new tools and new methods of work, technologies for learning (such as e-learning) and systems for corporate knowledge management, for integrated business management and for e-government taking account of user needs;

The Industry Group will provide advice to the European Commission and national governments in areas such as essential information technology and telecommunications infrastructure, open standards to facilitate the exchange of e-learning content, development of a sustainable market for e-learning content and the development of relevant professional and personal skills.

The ministry in Britain created a task force on e-learning and had a national strategy to support e- learning across the institutions.