METIS - Multimedia Interactive Environments for Distributed Teamwork Promotion in Schools - is an European R&D project where CNet is one of the consortia members. The aim of METIS is to create a cooperative, multimedia, multilingual educational resource centre for primary and secondary schools. IT-based solutions will be provided to promote pedagogic advances in tomorrow’s schools, allowing new paradigms of interaction between teachers, students and parents.

The achievement of these objectives will be demonstrated by means of different prototypes, which will propose cooperative works between different European schools.

A central component in METIS architecture is a distributed educational catalogue/repository for learning objects which in principle could be of any type and content. We will propose to build such an architecture using state-of-the-art XML-technology combined with standards for meta data management (RDF, DC, Learning Objects standards). The overall architecture is composed of a loosely coupled network of METIS sites.

The METIS architecture is based on XML.

Actors in METIS are students, teachers, parents and various types of content providers.