2.3.18 ARIADNE (European Knowledge Pool System) 

Lead 

European Commission's Telematics for Education and Training Program 

Origin Europe 

Background 

The ARIADNE Foundation was created to exploit and further develop the results of the ARIADNE and 

ARIADNE II European Projects, which created tools and methodologies for producing, managing and reusing 

computer based pedagogical elements and telematics supported training curricula.  

Validation of the tools and concepts took place in various academic and corporate sites across Europe and 

was encouraging enough to go ahead with this idea of non commercial exploitation.  

The underlying results stem from a huge R&D effort (approximately 100 man years invested in the two 

phases of the EU Project, ended in June 2000, much of which was supported financially by the European 

Union and the Swiss Government).  

Continued maintenance and training in the use of ARIADNE s best tools, as well as their further development 

will consolidate and augment the Users Community that emerged around some simple ideas and common 

ideals. 

URL http://www.ariadne eu.org/ 

Aims and 

Ariadne is a not for profit Association    the ARIADNE Foundation  for short   which endorses a few key 

Objectives 

societal objectives:  

Foster cooperation between educational bodies through the set up and exploitation of a truly 

European Knowledge Pool.  

Keep social and citizenship aspects dominating Education, combat an evolution towards making it 

a mere marketable item.  

Uphold and protect multilingualism and the use of national/regional languages in education.  

Define by international consensus what aspects of ICT based formation should be standardized 

and what should be left local.  

The Association works for the widespread adoption of educational technologies by the European Society at 

large, in their best state of the art and   as far as possible   platform independent practices. This entails a 

very low profile and modest approach, given the acute national and regional sensibilities and preferences in 

all that relates to education. The ARIADNE approach and tools, given their generally neutral pedagogical 

character, are well suited as a starting, practical point, to such an ambitious purpose.  

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