INFOVEK SLOVAKIA PROJECT

The aim of the Infovek Project in English InfoAge Project is to prepare the young generation in Slovakia for life in the information society of 21st century in order to prove competent in the knowledge economy, to create the preconditions for our young generation to be competitive on the forming global labour market, especially in comparison with the young people of the same age from the European Union. School is the most important place where this transformation must take place. In order to be able to provide for this hard task, the school must change itself from a traditional school to a modern school of the third millennium through the information and communication technologies.

The project concept stands on the following four pillars:

• Equipe every elementary and secondary schools (state, church or private) in Slovakia with a multimedia classroom with high quality Internet access
• Development of a modern education curricula for general and specialised subjects at all types of schools
• Training of tens of thousands of teachers in integrating modern information and communication technologies and their application into education
• Building information society – providing Infovek classrooms to the local community for the development of the digital literacy of the inhabitants of all regions in Slovakia in the time they are not used by the school for the purpose of life long learning and education.

Journal Infovek (2005.zip)