EU Funding for Projects

Hello,

I have a question related to how to obtain EU funding for projects 
implementign LMS technologies and/or funding for research projects doing 
the same.

Basically here is the deal. We have a Studentportal that implements a 
*lot* of functionality that is needed for a Swedish university. It has a 
syllabus that is exported to the legacy, national system for Courses and 
  Student administration, it has Course Homepages, the lot.

We have been able to cut down the work in some areas with up to 80%, so 
it works.

The problem is that it is basically built with Zope 2.4x. That is before 
the there where even PythonScripts in Zope and back when the CMF was an 
experimental Project called the PTK. We have it updated ton run off Zope 
2.6x but the stuff from 2.4 is still there.

So it is built with DTML, TTW and in an adhoc way. It also has some 
serious performce problems in some important areas.

As far as I know, there are not other systems like it, commercial and 
opensoruce; this is not only because it is custom made to suit our 
University, but also because it combines a  lot functioanlity and 
integration that just is not avaialble elsewhere. Also is has a 
no-nonsense balance between hyped "elearning, lms" needs and 
administrative needs. Basically it mves away a lot of the admin stuff to 
let educators concentrate on the learning siutation.

  It does not however have any notions of "learning objects" etc; it 
simplas provides some basic groupware functionality.

Given the situation today, we have almost an non existent (and that is 
speaking with a positive mind) to obtain any funding that will help 
modernise this system and push the limit for what it can do.

There is also infact little interest from the peopla that are in charge 
in supporting the system. We cannot take it down, because that would 
mean disaster, but neither are we allowed to continue developing and 
evolving it

So I am looking for funding outside of my Universiry.

Is there a possibility to find some EU funding that would help me 
further develop this system?

It would be OpenSource of course, we have no intention of keeping it 
Closed Sorice at all (the more users, the better community, we get 
support from others... simple economics).

Any pointer and information regardign this is appreciated.

Sincerely,

/dario



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