Virtual Collaboration Status Quo Ivan Melo University of

Virtual Collaboration Status Quo Ivan Melo (University of Žilina)

VC - Status Quo We use top information-communication technologies - VRVS videoconferences - videostreaming CERN – where www was born - video on demand to improve quality of education and scientific research in Slovakia We share material resources and know-how

VC members (universities) Akadémia umení v Banskej Bystrici 2004 Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave 2003 Katolícka univerzita v Ružomberku 2004 Prešovská univerzita v Prešove 2002 Slovenská poľnohospodárska univerzita v Nitre 2004 Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave 2004 Technická univerzita v Košiciach 2002 Technická univerzita vo Zvolene 2002 Trenčianska univerzita v Trenčíne 2003 Trnavská univerzita v Trnave 2001 Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave 2001 Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre 2003 Univerzita Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici 2001 Univerzita P. J. Šafárika v Košiciach 1999 Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave 2003 Univerzita veterinárskeho lekárstva v Košiciach 2004 Vysoká škola múzických umení v Bratislave 2004 Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v Bratislave 2004 Žilinská univerzita v Žiline 2001 Year of entry into VC

VC - Status Quo - Collaboration with Caltech (2000 students, 30 Nobel prizes) - Caltech/Slovak VRVS team - Slovak academic video-conference net - Local VC teams - Ministry of Education, SR - Collaboration with high schools

VC – Status Quo MšSR • seminars, distant lectures, conferences, weekly meetings with Mo. E, lectures for high-school students, meetings of multi-institutional teams, Web university • Academic calendar – easy to access, unifying platform of all academic events broadcast across Slovakia (http: //vk. upjs. sk/~kalendar)

Slovak academic video-conference net based on Sanet COUNTRY CAPITAL CASTLE • 5 virtual rooms • 4 VRVS reflectors • VRVS-SK team HISTORY LIBRARY http: //vrvs. org

VRVS presentation of 8 Slovak universities at the World Summit on Information Society, WSIS, Geneva, December 2003.

Distance learning via Internet. Multimedia recording • Košice – University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik • Rožňava – detached unit of UPJS

Study – comparison of classical and distance education, Prešov university, 2003 • Classical form • Distance learning

Physics seminars for elementary and high school students Faculty of Math and Physics, Comenius University • Electricity around us • Mechanical and optical experiments with CD's

VRVS day at University of Zilina Physics seminars via VRVS Comenius U, U of Zilina, UPJS Kosice, SAS, Presov

U of Zilina, Faculty of Natural Sciences - Tournament of young physicists - Computer physics course - Concerts by music students Faculty of Medicine, UPJS Kosice - Telemedicine (UPJS – Israel) - Live broadcast from operation room

Academic calendar

Further information on VC can be found at : http: //vk. upjs. sk VRVS homepage: http: //www. vrvs. org Do not forget to check Academic calendar at: http: //vk. upjs. sk/kalendar murin@vk. upjs. sk melo@fyzika. utc. sk