we, a team of 51 European institutions from 23 European countries are right now implementing and establishing an Europe-wide centralized and multilingual OER-access point and community-portal called Open Discovery Space (ODS).

Our aim is to link around 1,5 Mio freely available learning resources (Focus: MINT), work sheets, lesson plans, guidelines, etc. and connect at least 2000 European schools with each other in order to foster their open educational practices by locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally exchanging resources, experiences and knowledge.

Feel free to visit us directly at the portal or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/opendiscoveryspace.eu

The project is funded and highly supported by the European Commission and several national governments.

I think we could very well support each other. Even though not yet completely finalized (some planned features are still missing), the multilingual Portal as well as the fully scalable community platform are available and useable. We need you, German teachers, to try it out, to communicate your special requirements and contribute to the European OER community. On the other hand, at the current point of time, you still can influence the further development of the platform.

You are also heartily invited to participating in our various school competitions, webinars, and summer schools (see http://ods.ea.gr).

Please simply register at the portal or, in case of any questions, feel free to contact me or Sofoklis Sotiriou at EA in Greece: sotiriou@ea.gr.

We look forward having a chance to welcome you at ODS,

yours,

Thomas Richter