On 18-22 February 2008 the second TENCompetence Winter School took place in Innsbruck. 15 lecturers and 35 attendees from a variety of backgrounds and countries (not only PhD students and not only from Europe) created a stimulating and exciting learning environment.

The presentations are available here.

The main theme was Personal Competence Management, which forms the focus of the TENCompetence project. In keeping with this theme, a number of different project outcomes were presented, including the Personal Competence Management system itself.

Although most of the Winterschool lecturers were active partners in the project, a number of external lecturers presented some alternative perspectives: Ambjörn Naeve from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden  introduced the LUISA approach (Learning content management system Using
Innovative Semantic web services Architecture) whilst Ronald Maier of the University of Innsbruck explained the objectives of the new MATURE project. Ken Currie of CAPDM presented a corporate application based on the way to interpret, design and implement a functional Competency Framework, and Ralf Klamma of Aachen University brought a Web 2.0 perspective onto the concept of competence development.

One of the highlights of the Winterschool was a simulation game run by Albert Angehrn and Katrina Maxwell of TENCompetence partner INSEAD. In the closing stages of the event, Scott Wilson of the University of Bolton looked at the current state of the art in digital identity management. Participants took the opportunity to organize their own sessions and discuss their experience using social software in learning as well as interoperability issues.

For those left standing at the end of the day, there were several informal evening discussions with Ambjörn Naeve and Ton van der Moolen.

Sport and leisure activities on Wednesday afternoon offered a chance for attendees to develop a special range of competences in snowboarding, skiing, and sledging!

The whole week is well documented by the collection of more than 1000 photos taken by the participants themselves at http://flickr.com/photos/tags/winterschool2008/

The presentations are available here.