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Title:
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VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE DESIGN IN THE FRAMEWORK OF EU PROJECTS: A CASE-STUDY |
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Author(s):
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Laura Carletti, Tommaso Leo |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-28-1 |
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Editors:
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Kinshuk, Demetrios G Sampson, J. Michael Spector, Pedro Isaías, Dirk Ifenthaler, Radu Vasiu |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Community of Practice, Knowledge Sharing, International Cooperation, Virtual Communities |
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Type:
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EU Project Paper |
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First Page:
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311 |
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Last Page:
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314 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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EU projects call for international partnerships among organisations working together to achieve common objectives in order to address common problems, to exchange knowledge and know-how, to achieve operative results in a well-defined timescale. This paper presents SeA on-line community, which is the main result of SARA project (Secretariat for Adriatic: towards a new neighbourhood policy), financed by Interreg IIIA Adriatic Cross-border Programme in 2005. SeA is a working space allowing public and private organisations, experts and consultants to share knowledge in order to implement international cooperation, research, innovation and local development initiatives. SeA case-study is set up in order to highlight strengths and weaknesses arisen since the design, conceived coherently with Wenger theories, to the implementation of the virtual community of practice. The paper suggests that learning dynamics have to be managed in EU projects to contribute to the development of a European knowledge based society and that the correct design of a virtual Community of Practice can represent a sustainable and efficient solution to capitalise knowledge in a geographically distributed and culturally differentiated environment. |
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