Education

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Cooperation

Educational partnerships with the media portal

Siemens Stiftung, with the digital teaching materials on its media portal, helps instructors motivate and educate young people in the fields of science and technology. To reach as many instructors as possible, the Stiftung relies on partnerships with other educational institutions – both in Germany and abroad.

Such partnership agreements are based on the transfer of metadata. This makes it possible to share only descriptions of the media, the so-called metadata, based on a nationally uniform standard. The content itself remains the property of the Siemens Stiftung. The instructional media are flagged with metadata at the time they are created. This metadata includes the title, a description of the contents, copyright information and keywords based on content and didactic criteria.

Current partnerships

(Additional partnerships pending.)

May 2012:	Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz (State Educational Institute of Rhineland-Palatinate) Content: Metadata transfer agreement for the online platform OMEGA to press release (in German)
October 2011:	Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg (LMZ-BW) (State Media Center of Baden-Wuerttemberg) Content: Metadata transfer agreement for the online platform „SESAM – Server für schulische Arbeit mit Medien“ (server for educational work with media)
March 2011:	LVR-Zentrum für Medien und Bildung (LVR Centre for Media and Education) – on behalf of the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Content: Metadata transfer agreement for the new educational search engine learn:line NRW to press release (in German)
December 2010:	Niedersächsischer Bildungsserver (NiBiS) (Lower Saxony Educational Server) Content: Metadata transfer agreement to press release (in German)
October 2010:	Tiroler Bildungsinstitut – Medienzentrum des Landes Tirol (Tyrol Educational Institute – Media Center of the State of Tyrol) Content: Metadata transfer agreement for the LeOn server to press release
April 2010:	Thüringer Institut für Lehrerfortbildung, Lehrplanentwicklung und Medien (THILLM) (Thuringian Institute for Teacher Education, Curriculum Development and Media) Content: License for selected media packages on Thuringia’s school portal to news
April 2010:	FWU Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (FWU Institute for Film and Picture in Science and Education) Content: Metadata transfer agreement to news