8. Recommends to the Commission that it ensure free-of-charge access to all cultural and educational information contained in the ‘Europeana’ library for pupils, students and teachers in secondary schools, universities and other educational institutions, as well as all persons engaged in bona fide study or research, and that, at the same time, it promote research and development projects that make use of the ‘Europeana’ digital resources, through the development and free distribution of integrated lesson plans, curricula and educational software for both formal and informal (lifelong) education; is of the view that subsidiarity is no ob ...[+++]stacle to European programmes which make the maximum amount of scientific and technical information available to the education system as a whole and to teachers, students and researchers;

Under that form of distribution, licensing the software only occurs between the copyright owner and the user of the software.

- Software, Grids, service-distribution architecture, security and dependability: technologies, tools and methods for developing and validating high-quality dynamic and trusted software, architectures and middleware systems that underpin knowledge-intensive services, including their provision as utilities and for high-quality distribution services and technologies, tools and methods for development and validation ; service-oriented, interoperable and scale-free infrastructures, grid-like virtualisation of resources, including domain-specific platforms, network-centric operating systems; open source software; open platforms and collabo ...[+++]rative approaches for development and validation of software including free, libre and open source software , services and systems; composition tools including programming languages ; mastering emergent behaviours of complex systems; improving dependability and resilience of large-scale, distributed and intermittently connected systems and services; secure and trusted systems and services, including privacy-aware access control and authentication, dynamic security and trust policies, dependability and trust meta-models; introduction of software models in industry .

- Software, Grids, service-distribution architecture, security and dependability: technologies, tools and methods for developing and validating high-quality dynamic and trusted software, architectures and middleware systems that underpin knowledge-intensive services, including their provision as utilities and for high-quality distribution services and technologies, tools and methods for development and validation; service-oriented, interoperable and scale-free infrastructures, grid-like virtualisation of resources, including domain-specific platforms, network-centric operating systems; open source software; open platforms and collabor ...[+++]ative approaches for development and validation of software including free, libre and open source software, services and systems; composition tools including programming languages; mastering emergent behaviours of complex systems; improving dependability and resilience of large-scale, distributed and intermittently connected systems and services; secure and trusted systems and services, including privacy-aware access control and authentication, dynamic security and trust policies, dependability and trust meta-models; introduction of software models in industry.

They will help to strengthen cooperation with publishers of educational software, with a view in particular to improving distribution circuits, the production of innovative learning packages and materials which can be reused in different production contexts, and the use of open source software.

Under this form of distribution the licence of the software only takes place between the copyright owner and the user of the software.