USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT COLLABORATION WITHIN MULTINATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS

The success of a multinational partnership depends on many factors. Probably the most important factor is represented be the adequate collaboration between the partners. The activities developed by the project partnership involve usually group decisions. Although the e-mail is the most used technology for distance collaboration, the team work within a multinational project involves collaborative activities and the decisions associated to it that only the e-mail cannot support. This paper presents several collaborative task examples and decision scenarios which are specific to many European funded multinational educational projects. The analysis of these scenarios shapes a list of features specific to different collaborative technologies that should be combined and provided into an integrated system in order to facilitate the collaborative activities developed in the frame of multinational projects.