Sten Ludvigsen, professor and Director at InterMedia, has been elected Scientific Manager of Kaleidoscope, a Network of Excellence, supported by the European Community.

Kaleidoscope is a research network that brings together leading European teams in technology-enhanced learning. Currently it integrates 90 research units from around Europe, and covers a large range of expertise from technology to education, from academic to private research.

Altogether, it is a community of more than 1000 researchers and PhD-students in 24 countries. Across educational, computer and social sciences they have joined in their efforts to collaboratively develop new concepts and methods for exploring the future of learning with digital technologies.

-For InterMedia the involvement in Kaleidoscope represents a privileged access to both monitoring and influence in this field of European research, says Sten Ludvigsen.

-It has also contributed to the internationalization of our research education, to realizations of international research projects, to cooperation in technological infrastructure for research and to a strengthened relation between theory development and design of new technology for learning.

The appointment of Sten Ludvigsen is also important to the University of Oslo, says Ingrid Sogner, senior adviser at the EU-office. - It makes the University of Oslo visible. And it represents a significant contribution to fulfill an important ambition of the University; to lift it's internationally acknowledged research communities to even more central positions in European research and programs.

As scientific manager of Kaleidoscope, Sten Ludvigsen will be in charge of leading the activities of the network. This means that he will have a prominent role in supporting the community effort to shape a vision of its future scientifically and institutionally, and the high responsibility of "driving" the network toward a sustainable and productive organization.

Read interview with Sten and learn more about Kaleidoscope on the Kaleidoscope website. See also the Kaleidoscope press release and interview with Sten in Uniforum, the University of Oslo's newspaper (in Norwegian).