Electronic communications competence centre and the development of standardization

Abstract

Competence Centre in the European Union is a tool to support collaborative applied research, which the centre carries out between academic institutions and industrial companies. The useful technical standards require a long-term strategic cooperation between academia and industry, improving efficiency in the exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of new technologies. One of the main results is a higher competitiveness in particular small and medium-sized enterprise. This is especially true in the fast developing domain, field of services and technologies for electronic communications. Carefully processed technical standards are an important source of technical information and current professional Slovakian new terminology and they help developing widely available new and hitherto-unknown forms of e-Learning.