The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is a non-profit organisation that fosters the free exchange of knowledge in all areas of society. Inspired by the Free Software (FS) movement, the FKI promotes freedom of use, modification and distribution of knowledge in four different but highly related fields: education, technology, culture and science.
The FKI is an in 2007 created spin-off of ISOC.nl, the Dutch chapter of the Internet Society, to manage the expansion of the SELF Platform and other FS related activities under an independent although closely related entity.
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is an innovative web-centric virtual organisation which has relied on the intensive use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from the very beginning. The UOC's main goal is that every person satisfies their training needs, making their effort as profitable as possible, regardless of where they are and optimising their time. The UOC develops the Virtual Campus as a network community where limitations of space and time are overcome. It also uses an educational methodology based on the complete personalisation and guidance of the student. Students, lecturers and managers interact and cooperate in that network community to create, structure, share and disseminate knowledge.
OU is an independent institute for distance learning at university level founded in 1984, placed in The Netherlands. It addresses the wide-ranging learning needs of people during their course of life, plus the need to achieve a considerable increase of the knowledge level of the community at large.
In addition to Bachelor and Master programmes, the OU offers professional education, graduate level and in-company programmes. Annual student enrolment totals over 30.000. In 2006 the OU started offering free Internet courses through the Open Educational Resources (OpenER) project.
University of Agder (Universitetet i Agder), previously Agder University College, has 8500 students and 900 members of faculty and staff. UiA is one of the largest institutions for higher education in Norway. The university has campuses in Kristiansand and Grimstad and until Summer of 2010 also in Arendal. It has a number of programmes in different discipline areas such as Economics and Social Sciences, Teaching, Nursing, Technology and Science, Humanities, Fine Arts and also Information Systems and Computer Engineering, ranging from bachelor elvel up to Ph.D. The university college became Norway's 7th university on September 1, 2007, after the government had granted it status as university on August 10, 2007.
Seed is a non-profit enterprise, born in 2006 by the experience and enthusiasm of young professionals in the field of education, technologies, and international cooperation.
Seed is involved in communication, education and technologies projects in the world of non profit, that is in the social field in Switzerland and Italy, and of international cooperation.