Invitation
Movements around sustainability and ecology in the past decade changed our approaches and thinking in radical and inclusive ways. Sustainable strategies include the flexibility offered by ICT-supported solutions. Smart use of ICTs in learning is one of the vital factors in making our world more sustainable.

We can visualize the numerous and natural relationships between sustainability and learning in many contexts. Sustainable e-learning linked to professional development is based on organic organizational and pedagogic perspectives, while using ecologically appropriate technological solutions.

High rates of change, due to information technology development and the momentum of innovation in e-learning, mean we must seriously approach sustainability of the culture and community of e-learning.

The web itself is a kind of ecosystem of innovation for learning. It is important to conceptualize and analyze the changing nature of learning - including lifecycles of learning and knowledge and their methods and paradigms.

The role of innovative learning as critical awareness raising factor for global sustainability links organically to education around understanding the contexts of ecological challenges.

The aim of the 2011 EDEN conference is to highlight different ways and approaches, in order to integrate better the concept of responsible and sustainable development within learning, in its widest sense.

Call for Contributions
To learn more about the scope of the event and consult the themes, please visit the respective conference pages.
The Conference web-site and the Call for Contributions is open.

As usually, there will be opportunities for submitting and presenting papers, workshops, posters and demonstrations. The conference theme implies in the meantime high level of openness and creativity both in choosing the topics and applying/proposing formats of interactive and involving ways of presentations.

We invite EDEN members, partners and friends - old and new ones - to take part in discovering the exciting conference topic from a diversity of points of interest.

The EDEN Anniversary
Year 2011 marks the 20th Anniversary of EDEN launched in 1991 in Milton Keynes. The jubilee conference will offer great opportunity for the EDEN community, friends and partners to celebrate and also to draw the balance of the first two decades and look ahead for the prosperous development of ICT supported learning in Europe.

Schedule and Deadlines
Paper Submissions - 28 January, 2011
Registration Open - Mid February
Notification of Authors - 31 March
On-line Registration Closes - 1 June

Conference Venue, Dublin
The EDEN 2011 Conference will be organized with a unique constellation of supportive features and collaborating institutions. The host country will be Ireland - for a generation, a symbolic region of Europe for innovation and development, both in technology and the society.

Being one of Europe's oldest cities and as well as retaining its historical and cultural charms, the Irish capital, Dublin has very few rivals in Europe for atmosphere, night life, visitor attractions and activities. Steeped in history and buzzing with youthful energy, the city is at the very heart of Irish culture. Dublin is also home to one of the friendliest people in the world.

The host institution: IADT - the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology - is positively energized with new ideas and creativity and represents a unique and pioneering approach to education programmes and sustainable learning.

The pleasant surroundings and excellent convention facilities of the conference venue, University College Dublin, will ensure inspiration for both intellectual exploration, dialogue, learning partnerships and collaboration.