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Internet laboratory is a team of certified software programmers, engineers, analysts, documentation specialists and other professionals available for outsourcing projects. Our development center is based in Nizhny Novgorod - the third largest city in Russia, having strong reputation for well-established high schools and universities. Our foreign clients can reach us through our affiliate in the United States and all further business relationships will be based on US legislation. So that we can offer our customers a unique combination of US business development and low-cost but high-quality services of Russian software developers. We provide a range of services for all budgets, and deliver them on target, on budget and on time.

All our employees directly involved in software development process are very experienced and we can provide from one to fifty programmers depending on the complexity of the project. Using many years of our experience in problem-solving, we are confident that we will make a successful addition to any company, whether the project is complex or simple.

A combination of profound business knowledge, focused technical expertise, use of mature process management models, multi-lingual capabilities and a pragmatic, quality-oriented approach helps us provide the flexibility you want. We are well-equipped to meet the rising demand for high-quality software products.

We have a permanent Internet connection at our disposal that allows us to communicate with our clients as easy as if we were the next door. Most communication is done via Internet in English. Communications take the form of e-mails, chats, remote access methods and telephone. ILab ensures that all parties have effective communications throughout the course of the project.

ICT directly provides new jobs opportunities assuming that jobs applicants have the required competencies or can access on-line training sessions. Telework is an alternative for reviving depressed areas and create new fields of expertise.

Ribes de Freser is a small town placed in Pyrenees mountains, in Girona (Spain), a 1 ½ hour' drive from Barcelona. As many other mountain areas, the Freser Valley suffers from a lack of people living there all year. Many houses, flats and villas are only occupied in the summer or during weekends, by non-residents living in the city who like the natural landscape -but only for short periods of time.

It is in that scenario that the centre known as Televall is trying to attract people who aim to live all year in Ribes de Freser and telework from that village. Televall offers advanced infrastructure, technical support and connectivity (128 Kb line) with 3 servers, several computers and some facilities (plotters, scanners... ), also with meeting rooms, training classrooms and other equipment and facilities.

When Televall began its operations and teleworkers landed in the town in some number, a completely unexpected problem appeared: there were very few flats to rent in the area, due to the town's heavy summer residential specialization. So Televall added a new function to its offer and now is promoting the construction of new buildings in the area and the restoration of old masias (traditional country houses).

The first step will see the teaching of technical skills in the fields of network technology, web design, database development and electronic commerce.

The second step will impart social skills, in particular through communication training, training in project management and inter-cultural training.

In a third step, the project will teach transfer skills by providing work-related training and work experience in real practice firms and exchange programmes.

To this end, the project will provide each trainee with an individual curriculum tailored to personal requirements and the regional labour market. Training will last between two to four semesters and will lead to a diploma. Each module comprises a distance learning phase and a physical presence phase.

In the distance learning phase, internet-based training models will be used, in the form of both self-tuition modules and interactive, moderated learning on screen. During this phase, trainees will develop, e.g., their own software programmes and solutions for set problems. In the physical presence phase, these developments will be tested in real businesses.

With its modular form of training and the two separate distance and presence phases, the "Akademie für Zukunftshackler" is designed to target young people in geographically isolated regions. Over the long term, existing educational establishments will be incorporated into the training programme as certified partners for the "Akademie" and take on the individual modules of the physical presence phase for the teaching of social skills.

Promotics II is the continuation of the Leonardo project Promotics I. The target group comprises language teachers. The aim is to promote language skills through the teaching of foreign languages. The project will provide an aid for language learners in the form of a CD-ROM. Promotics II targets trainers and language teachers. German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian and Slovenian are the languages supported.

The project will offer occupational terminology lists, on-line direct-learning software and chat fora for language teachers to exchange experiences, teaching methods and teaching skills. The aim is to improve language learning in Europe, to integrate inter-cultural competence in language learning and to network language learning centres. The long-term objective of Promotics II is to offer all schools with internet access a platform for language learning.

As part of the project, internationally recognised certification procedures are to be developed for on-line language learning. An on-line service centre will be set up for the core functions of Promotics II. This centre will be staffed by experts and will target multipliers throughout Europe in order to guarantee widespread dissemination of the project.