NAU Advanced Tools

1. Identification and framing

Acronym: FAN
Project Title: NAU Advanced Tools
Project no. POCI-05-5762-FSE-000266
Designation: SATDAP – Public Administration Training
Operational Program: Competitiveness and Internationalization Program
Intervention Typology: European Social Fund (ESF)
Start Date: 01-10-2020
End Date: 30-09-2023

2. Amounts involved

Entity: Foundation for Science and Technology
Eligible: 960 000,00 €
ERDF Support: 546 720,00€

3. Execution

Financial Execution
Executed Budget Eligible: 960 000,00 € (100%)
ERDF support obtained: 546 720,00€ (56,95%)

Operational Execution
Execution Fee: 100%

4. Project summary:

Objectives
The FCT's mission is to continually promote the advancement of scientific and technological knowledge in Portugal, achieve the highest international standards of quality and competitiveness in all scientific and technological fields, and encourage its dissemination and contribution to society and the productive sector.

Distance learning has been gaining more and more followers among teaching and training entities, as a way to reduce costs with all the logistics and organization involved in welcoming and accommodating students, reducing costs in the travel of trainers and as a way to reach new audiences, due to the convenience that distance learning provides, namely the population of less developed regions of the North, Center and Alentejo.

The NAU Platform (Teaching Platform for Large Groups in Public Administration) is a multifunctional infrastructure supporting distance learning courses for large audiences, promoted by the Public Administration, with the following objectives: to promote the Portuguese language and content about Portugal and Portuguese culture; to promote access to higher education and its internationalization; to promote the continuing education of citizens in general and government employees in particular; and to develop services and activities that ensure its sustainability. The FAN Project (NAU Advanced Tools) emerged from the inventory of additional development needs for the base platform in the "Requirements Gathering" phase of the previous project and from international trends in MOOC course management (Massive Open Online Course, aiming to strengthen the FCT|FCCN team with knowledge and resources to have a more active and relevant participation in the Open edX community as well as in the European community of entities that develop MOOCs.