First Outcomes of WP2 Research Carried Out Within the Framework of the IRNet Project - International Research Network

This paper, prepared by an international team of authors including specialists from different scientific areas, connected with ICT, e-learning, pedagogy, and other related disciplines, focuses on the objectives of the international project IRNet - International Research Network for the study and development of new tools and methods for advanced pedagogical science in the field of ICT instruments, e-learning and intercultural competences. The project is financed by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, within the Marie Curie Actions International Research Staff Exchange Scheme. Grant Agreement No: PIRSES-GA-2013-612536; the duration of the project: 48 months1/01/2014 31/12/2017. In particular, the article describes a WP2: Analyses of legal, ethical, human, technical and social factors of ICT and elearning development, and the state of intercultural competences in partner countries: Objectives, Tasks, and Deliverables. The second part of the paper includes data from preliminary research. During the study and analysis of global (international) and local (national) documents as well as university documents Table 1 was prepared which sets forth a comparison of legal, ethical, human, technical and social factors of ICT and e-learning development, and the state of intercultural competences in several partner countries, for example Poland, Ukraine, the Netherlands and Russia in the context of the IRNet project International Research Network.