| Keynote Speaker: Brian Holmes |
Brian Holmes is Head of Unit at the new Executive Agency established by the European Commission to manage the Community’s programmes in education, training, culture and media. He is responsible for the unit dealing with the Comenius, Grundtvig, ICT and Languages actions under the Lifelong Learning Programme. The unit is also managing ongoing actions under the Socrates and eLearning programmes.He has been working on education and training for many years at the Commission. Most recently he was involved with European policy for innovation and lifelong learning, supported by ICT, in DG Education and Culture. For several years he co-ordinated the eLearning Programme and prior to that, he worked for DG Information Society on the IST programme, where he was responsible for state-of-the art research projects addressing e-learning for work. Brian Holmes is a Chartered Engineer and has an MBA from a Paris business school. Until recently he was a tutor with the UK’s Open University Business School, for the MBA module on Managing Knowledge, in which he used e-learning support for virtual collaborative work and on-line tutorials. Source of text and picture: http://www.web4seniors.eu/index.php?vorstellung.en |


Brian Holmes is Head of Unit at the new Executive Agency established by the European Commission to manage the Community’s programmes in education, training, culture and media. He is responsible for the unit dealing with the Comenius, Grundtvig, ICT and Languages actions under the Lifelong Learning Programme. The unit is also managing ongoing actions under the Socrates and eLearning programmes.







