An action plan to enhance local skills
in educational and cultural multimedia
in the context of an approach to a regional content centre

Dedicated to co-operation, MaTICE aims to encourage the structure of a centre involving research, creation, editing and circulation of educational and cultural multimedia in Marseille and its region.

The regional strategy concentrates on the area where multimedia production content converges with information and communication technology, micro-electronics, telecommunication and computers.
A strategic operational study has been undertaken with the specific intention to clarify the action plan, to define the objectives and identify the best operational structures concerning the institutional and manufacturing participants involved.

This approach has already enabled the “dedicated co-operation centre” to group together numerous public sector participants, and some private sector participants. Some services of the MaTICE action plan already exist and are working together more closely: benchmarking, studying how multimedia is used, offers of training, research, help with setting up and developing companies, follow-up, international relations, and of course knowledge sharing.

These services will develop, diversify, become structured, and will progressively concern an increasing number of participants, particularly those from the private sector who now organise themselves into associations. Some of these associations have the same objectives as MaTICE. The industrial and economic dimensions of the MaTICE project are as equally important as the educational and cultural dimensions.

In future, three aspects of the action plan will be developed. The first aims to structure the educational and cultural content sectors; the second is to finalise a regional centre offering co-operative services; and the third is to encourage relations between the manufacturing sector and advanced training and research.

The MaTICE action plan aims to help make Marseille and its region a reference point for the content and use of educational and cultural multimedia, at the national and international levels.

Email: matice@belledemai.org
Website: http://matice.belledemai.org