 Description of work - Part I
At the beginning, the Task Force of WP-T will be formed from those partners' representatives who intend to work towards the implementation of WP-T objectives. The WP-T Task Force plenary meetings will be organized at least once a year. e-Photon/ONe+ partners will be asked to commit with a significant effort in WP-T activities, as the involvement cannot be a passive participation in knowledge dissemination.
The first major objective of WP-T is to define a Master program on Optical Communications and Networks. This one-year common Master study is assumed to consist of a set of courses according to the topics in the commonly defined curriculum.
Each course is going to be prepared by a group of volunteers (lecturers), called Course Group (CG). Each course will cover educational activities to be valued 6 ECTS credits. Two of lecturers will coordinate the preparatory work for each CG. The first of co-ordinators is responsible for organization of CG. The result will be a detailed description of the entire course, presentations, support material, list of references and questions for students. The common course is expected to be the synergic outcome of CG members' knowledge, with the goal to avoid overlapping of contents, balance the importance of course sub-topics, and to harmonize terminology and definitions in the topic.
Common course materials should be exchangeable between the CG and the network of excellence, taking into account copyright laws and local practices. CGs are encouraged to share their own developed and open source tools dedicated to education.
In order to prepare the content of the course, lecturers within a CG will use communication tools and services as well as CG workshops. Partners will have to allocate budget for these purposes.
The participation to the common Master study program could be carried out for each partner and its students in different ways:
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using common materials by lecturers in existing or in new established Master courses (teaching materials' mobility),
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mobility of lecturers to the students' locations to carry out a part of or the entire course (lecturer's mobility), or
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mobility of students to lecturers' locations (student mobility).
In order to achieve low cost mobility, partners will organize lessons in concentrated time slots. Teleconference tools will be considered as an alternative to mobility.
Each partner will take into account local legislation and rules, and choose possible ways to participate in the common Master study.In the preparation of the Master study program, bodies and external experts from academia, industry and industrial associations will be consulted. 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.
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