Since 1996, Alain Dumort has headed the "New technologies in education and training" division, reporting to the
Director general on Education, Training and Youth at the European Commission.
His group is involved in the preparation and implementation of strategy and policy documents on the use of
new media for learning as well as as well as the development of ICT literacy and skills through sustainable
public-private partnerships.
Alain Dumort is also responsible for the organisation of the Netd@ys Europe initiative which in the last two years has become the world's largest raising-awareness campaign on the use of new media for lifelong learning and discovery. Alain joined the EC- DG XIII "Telecommunications, the information market and exploitation of research" group in October 1990 as the adviser to the Director General on economics and strategic affairs. He contributed to the preparation and follow-up of G-7 and OECD ministerial conferences on the information society. He has also specialized in the management and evaluation of research programmea and energy/environment projects within the EC as well as the Grenoble and Brussels universities.
Alain is the Fellow from the European Institutions for the School of International Relations at the University of
Southern California for the academic year 1999-2000.
Netd@ys Europe: Best of, CD-ROM edited by the European Commission and Helsinki City, 1999
Netd@ys Europe – Wired up to go – A chronicle of October 1997 edited by the European Commission, Luxembourg, 24 p, 1998.
The economics of the information society, co-edited by the European Commission and the OECD, Luxembourg, 300 p, 1997.
The road to the information society: new technologies for education and training, edited by the European Commission, Luxembourg, 270 p, 1996.
La préparation des européens à la société de l’information, edited by the European Commission, Luxembourg, 250 p, 1995. Economic quantitative methods for the evaluation of the impact of R&D programmes, edited by the European Commission, Luxembourg, 250 p, 1992.
Energie et Méditerranée, Instruments d’analyse et perspectives énergétiques dans le Bassin Méditerranéen à l’horizon 2010-2015, Editions Publisud, 335 p, Paris, 1990.
Energy for a new century: a European perspective, Energy in Europe, special issue, edited by the European Commission, 260 p, 1990.
MEDEE-S: Energy demand model for the developing countries, edited by the United Nations Development programme for Asia and Pacific, 400 p, Banghok, 1989.
MEDEE-Sud: Modèle de Demande en énergie pour les pays du sud, edited by the European Commission, Luxembourg, 550 p, 1997.
MEDEE 3: Modèle de simulation de la demande d’énergie pour l’Europe, Editions Technique & Documentation-Lavoisier, 295 p, Paris, 1986.
Articles
L’apprendimento nella societa informatica globale in Compagno di banco - Computer e nueove tecnologie per la scuola, Edizione Etas Libri, Milano, 1997.
Education and multimedia: the actions of the European Union (collaborative paper) in European Journal of Teacher Education, Vol 20, 1997