The NoE has three goals to build, to fill and to update the DEED.

Build the DEED:

New participants with respect to 1 will be rare, will be identified by the leaders of individual modules. Their competencies and role will be to add some functionality to the module not offered by the present group. These new members will be chosen to join formally by the board of management.

Fill the DEED:

Numerous new participants are expected to use the DEED to share their research, methods and critical thought. Typically they will be identified by the networks in each country or apply to join via these networks. Their competences will lie in research, which they wish to share and which they are committed to making available using the DEED modules. Their role will be add the functionality of these modules to their research thus making it accessible multilingually to members of the NoE.

Update the DEED:

Research matrices will be used to gather information needed to keep the DEED updated. Some of this information will be gathered from users in the NoE. Here again new participants are possible. Such participants need to demonstrate that they have special competences in their domain/process. Their role will be to keep information on that domain/process up to date.

Admission Process

The admission process starts either from the side of E-Culture Net, i.e. a prospective member is approached by a national representative of the NoE, or from the side of the prospective member who has learned about E-Culture Net from colleagues, through conferences, publications or the Website.

In both cases a first formal step is a standard letter of intent sent to the co-ordinator of E-Culture Net or the applicable country representative (i.a. depending on the state of development of the national E-Culture network).

If the applicant is judged eligible, the coordinator, in consultation with the country representative (region) and the respective team leader (subject), will enter the applicant as candidate member of E-Culture Net.

The management board will vote on all candidate members on a biannual basis (next voting January 2004, exact dates are communicated via the section meetings and events of the Website). Candidates are invited to provide a short presentation (approx. 10 pages) of their organisation or research group well in advance of the vote.

In exceptional cases, the broad majority of the E-Culture Net members can overrule the decision of the management board. Any member and candidate has the right to appeal the decision of the management board within 2 weeks of the decision and can search support from all members during the period of 4 months. A negative or positive decision can be overruled by signed statements of support by at least 50% of the members (counted 2 months before the appeal) plus 1 member. The co-ordinator must provide a list of contact persons of all members at the time of appeal.

Members of Networks outside of Europe

Cultural networks outside of Europe are welcome to apply. Normally, an important criterion is that the network is willing to share high quality materials on a reciprocal basis for purposes of research and education. A first formal step is a standard letter of collaboration sent to the co-ordinator of E-Culture Net.

Important Documents

Letter of Intent (MS Word / PDF)

Description of the Joint Programme of Activities (PDF)

Full Text of the Proposal (PDF)

Address

6 rue Léonard de Vinci
53001 Laval
FRANCE

For further information please contact national representatives: