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 WP12 - Activities
WP12 will work towards the definition of a uniform curriculum in Optical Communication and Networks to provide integrate teaching at different partners. A task force will be formed by the Dissemination and Training Board (DT-B) of the JPA Committee during the first 6 months. A one year Master is probably the contact point among most of the teaching systems available throughout Europe. The task force will work to:
- create a group of institution that, according to their national legislation, are willing to define and possibly activate a joint program
- identify the minimum requirements that are needed to access the joint program (number of credits in specific subjects)
- prepare a first version of the program
- collect and harmonize teaching material from involved partners
Simultaneously, contacts will be established with other bodies and external experts will be identified. Examples of such possible bodies are FITCE, the federation of Telecommunications Engineers of the European Community; ETIC, the European Telecom Industrial Consortium; and ETNO, the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association. Winter School on optical networks design, and Summer Schools on optical access technologies, will be organised, possibly in conjunction with the ONDM and ECOC conferences. The first announcements of these postgraduate schools will be published shortly after the start of the network. For the organisation of these post-academic schools, an organizing committee has to be put together. These committees will have to be composed with sufficient anticipation and will be in charge of choosing lecturers and lecture topics, defining the target audience, preparing announcements, etc. The experience and the selection of topics made for the summer schools will be used to identify a set of distinguished lectures in optical networking. A common format for the teaching material of the distinguished lectures will be defined, and a first draft of the lectures will be available by the end of the funding period.
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