DBTechNet is an initiative of European universities and IT-companies to set up a transnational collaboration scheme of higher level educational establishments, IT enterprises and vocational training centres who will collaborate in order to achieve a three-fold goal, namely:

• developing efficient Internet based tools (like a web-based IT terminology encyclopaedia, universal database access terminal, etc) which will organize worldwide access to DB technology resources and educational/training material and references,
  

• design and develop virtual workshop type course modules on selected DB topics that will address the wide spectrum of new trends, backed by online support from a network of educational and IT professional experts, and
  

• promote entrepreneurship by developing a business plan of operation, which will make it possible for the collaboration scheme in question to evolve into a self-sustained consortium that will function within the new emerging reality of education and vocational training in today's Information and Communication Technology driven society.
  

Aside the theoretical studies the project addresses the needs of the industry on application development and use of the mainstream database systems used by the European industry. The project extends the results of the DBTech Pro project, the DBTech Framework of courses and the series of hands-on workshops for learning by doing and verifying theories is used to guide the development of learning modules, to cover the latest development in the practical field of database technologies.

Beside the contents the results are extended and exploited to link the education of VET (vocational education and training) and HE (higher education) institutions up to the level needed for professionals in the European labour market and to PhD programmes for the needs of European research addressing also the lifelong learning strategies for the European database professionals. Internet based virtual laboratories, digital video lessons and online tests will disseminate and exploit the tutorials and workshops to industry (outer circle) partners supporting the lifelong learning of European database professionals by means of ICT.

Partners :

• Alexander Technology Educational Institute (ATEI), Thessaloniki, Greece
• Finnish Business College, Helsinki, Finland
• Groupe esaip, Saint Barthélémy d'Anjou, France
• HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
• I.E.S. Politécnico Jesús Marín, Málaga, Spain
• Omnia, The Joint Authority of Education in Espoo Region, Espoo, Finland
• Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany
• Tieto Public Industry Finland
• University of Macedonia Economic and Social Sciences, Thessaloniki, Greece
• University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
• University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK
  

and we co-operate with many Outer Circle partners, for example :

• Tieto Public Industry Finland
• IBM
• Oracle
• Microsoft
• Corvinno
• EUTrek
• Novasoft
• ES
• Kantamestarit
• Levigo