The MERLOT project was part of IDSA’s booth at the Data Spaces Symposium 2025. The largest data spaces-related event with more than 700 participants took place in Warsaw, Poland. MERLOT was represented by IDSA. Many fruitful discussions on educational data spaces and MERLOT inparticular took place at the booth and shed a huge spotlight on…
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Dr. Sabine Zander, Director of the Innovation Lab at imc, discussed at Didacta 2025 how educational innovations can be brought into practice more quickly. The conclusion is clear: Without better framework conditions, progress will be stalled! 3 Key Takeaways Summarized: 💡 From Data Scarcity to Data Abundance: Educational data could help improve learning opportunities—but concerns…
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The sixth consortium meeting of the MERLOT project took place in Saarbrücken on December 10 and 11. At the consortium meeting, all the impressive results of the past three project years were demonstrated in detail and discussed in conclusion. The results presented included career and further education assistants as well as other AI-based smart education…
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On November 26 and 27, the MERLOT consortium was a guest at the Gaia-X Expo in Berlin. The MERLOT project was able to achieve all its goals during the project period and present them at the Gaia-X closing event. The exhibition of a live demonstrator made it possible to illustrate the concepts, developments and solutions…
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Julien Adelberger from the International Data Spaces Association presented the MERLOT project in the frame of the Gaia-X Summit in Helsinki from November 14th to November 15th this year. During the panel “Gaia-X Voices”, the current status of the project was showcased to the Gaia-X community. Find more information on the Summit here: https://gaia-x.eu/summit-2024/agenda/.
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With his publication “Exploring MOOC metadata – Data available via the MOOChub format” Max Thomas from Hasso Plattner Institute presented the MERLOT project at this year’s DEMOcon at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA from October 16th – 18th. More information on the conference can be found here: https://2024.democon-conference.org/
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Meet Merlot at the upcoming Gaia-X Roadshow in Essen “With data to success” – The next Gaia-X Roadshow is all about skills and competence management in the digital transformation. The MERLOT (MarkEtplace foR LifelOng educaTional dataspaces and smart service provisioning) funding project will present the objectives and vision of an educational data space in exciting…
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Lifelong learning with data rooms through Gaia-X In this interview, Rola Sayegh and Dr. Sabine Zander explain how the Gaia-X-funded project MERLOT is overcoming the challenges of the data room project and successfully driving forward the development of the business model of an education marketplace and AI-supported assistant for career finding, career planning and further…
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Technical implementation of the MERLOT marketplace successful – The Gaia-X funded project in the field of education MERLOT (MarkEtplace foR LifelOng educaTional dataspaces and smart service provisioning) achieved its project goal six months before the end of the funding period and has now been impressively showcased at the consortium meeting in Düsseldorf. A big step…
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