News Archive

London, 7 ^th March 2008 – The annual BA CREST Award ceremony took place in the impressive settings of the Centre of the Cell in East London. Winner of the Intel Award was Alex White, 17, from The King’s School Chester. He will now be traveling to Atlanta (USA), to take part in the Intel ISEF event. Learn more ›

Feldkirchen/Munich, 1 ^st February 2008 – The 6^th International Intel® Teach – Advanced Online Consortium Meeting held on the 30^th and 31^st January in Feldkirchen/Munich was motivated by the desire to take the current programme to a completely new level, by combining the latest findings on e-learning with the latest developments in Learning Management Systems (LMS). The main goal of the meeting, attended by government representatives of the 7 participating countries and by Intel Education, was to find common ways on how to extend the reach of the platform by building a solid online community of teaching practitioners, while also expanding the professional development courses offered as blended learning concepts via the platform. Learn more ›

London, 1 ^st February 2008 – UNESCO guidelines for teachers to use information and communication technology (ICT) to improve education were presented to education ministers from more than 100 countries and to the press at the Moving Young Minds Conference in London. Developed in cooperation with Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, as well as the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), the ICT Competency Standards for Teachers have been designed to help educational policy-makers and curriculum developers identify the skills teachers need to harness technology in the service of education. Learn more ›*

Berlin, 17 ^th January 2008 – On 17^th January 2008, high level representatives from member companies of the German Corporate Citizenship Network „Unternehmen: Aktiv im Gemeinwesen“ were invited by the Head of the Federal Chancellery, Dr. Thomas de Maizière, for an exchange of views and ideas regarding the role of companies in Germany. The discussion centered around creative and sustainable approaches of cooperation between companies, NGOs and Governments for the future. Thomas Osburg, EMEA Education Manager K12, represented Intel on behalf of Martina Roth, Director Global Education Strategy. Learn more ›

Nottingham, 7 ^th November 2007 – The effective collaboration between Intel Education UK and Djanogly City Academy has led to the creation of the Intel Award for Creativity, which was established as a new way to foster and recognise high levels of imagination and creativity.
Specifically, the award is aimed at year 7 students working together within their POD teams to produce a single artefact. Learn more ›

Santa Clara, California, 27 ^th September 2007 – Former President Bill Clinton announced today at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York that Intel Corporation will bring its landmark teacher training programme online to help more than 1.5 million teachers in 15 countries learn how to best integrate technology into their lesson plans to help students learn. Learn more ›

Nottingham, 26 ^th July 2007 – During the 5^th International Intel® Teach – Advanced Online Consortium Meeting held on 5^th and 6^th July in Nottingham (England), delegates from eight participating countries and Intel Education jointly proposed an agenda to increase the usage of a pedagogical model for Professional Development that builds on teachers’ collaboration for the design, delivery, and assessment of National Curricula in order to enhance students’ learning and achievements. Learn more ›

Dillingen, 2 ^nd July 2007 – Over 150 delegates from the German Bundesländer and high-level workshops made the Intel® Teach Symposium a highlight of the 8^th year of the German Intel Teach Programme. The Academy for Teacher Professional Development in Dillingen offered the fitting backdrop to discuss digital learning with the experts among the audience. Learn more ›

Budapest, 12 ^th June 2007 – From the 12^th – 14^th June, 170 Academics from close to 100 Universities from around EMEA took part in the 12^th EMEA Academic Forum located in the beautiful city of Budapest. Learn more ›

Innsbruck, June 21, 2007 – Today, Intel Corp., represented by Dr. Martina Roth, Director Education EMEA and Prof. Dr. Bruck, founder and General Manager of the Research Studios Austria, jointly opened the 3^rd microlearning Conference in Innsbruck in front of nearly 200 high-level professors and researchers from around the world. As Martina Roth is newly elected member of the Scientific Board of the Research Studio Austria and this year’s Conference Co-Chair, she had the honor to open the conference with a keynote address. Learn more ›