European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education

The European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE) is an innovation initiative to respond to European policy priorities of opening up and modernising the European Higher Education sector through the creation of a coordinated European OER area for innovation. ENCORE will support uptake of OER through business & academia by taking a leading role in sharpening existing value propositions and implementation strategies for OER in academia and transferring them to the world of work thus bringing both sectors together into a Knowledge Alliance leading to a European OER area.1 ENCORE will contribute to the development of sustained and well-mapped European OER innovation area for well connected Higher Education & business stakeholder communities.2 ENCORE will realise a new vision of a technological infrastructure which fosters collaboration and connection of OER repositories into a European OER-Repository Ecosystem.3 ENCORE will foster the uptake of OER in Europe through stimulating the integration of policies for OER in organisations of business & academia and encourage both to learn from their practices.4 ENCORE will establish open, distributed and highly trusted community-based quality review communities for the Future European OER Repository Ecosystem and involve businesses as well as Higher Education Institutions into a dialogue on quality & innovation through OER.5 ENCORE will establish a connected European multi-stakeholder ecosystem of business and entrepreneurial innovation around OER for business & academia.The project starts from the insight, that while there are islands of innovative, viable, working and established solutions for each of the particular systemic challenges either on a practical, institutional or policy level in European institutions and member states, currently there is no orchestrated alliance to bring them together into a European overarching consensus leading to a European Open Education Area.