#1 TELEBALT PROJECT CONSORTIUM
This presentation deals with the present status of TELEBALT project development after the first six months of its functioning. The project is entitled "Teleworking as a Tool for Information Society Technologies Programme Promotion to Baltic States". The project coordinator is EDNES, France. There are the four main project actors. Among them are principal contractors Open Latvia, which organizes and INFOBALT in Vinius, Lithuania. Two other major project actors are Estonian focal point "Inforing AS" and CODATA, Paris, France.

#2 EDNES
The project coordinator is an international association "Earth Data Network for Education and Scientific Exchange", which has its headquarters in Strasbourg, France. EDNES has operating branches in Boulder, Strasbourg, Rabat, Kiev, Baku, Moscow and Tashkent. The one in Yerevan is planned to be opened in the end of 2002. You can get more information on EDNES at www.ednes.org.

#3 OPEN LATVIA
OL is a non profit association which deals with promotion of tourism related activities using telematic and teleworking techniques. Another important field of OL operations is information technologies developments and adaptation in cooperation with similar organizations in Baltic countries and EU member states. You will have more details about OL at www.openlatvia.lv

#4 INFOBALT
INFOBALT is a big non-profit association in Lithuania, which includes 150 member organizations working in the field of information technologies, telecommunications and office equipment. INFOBALT also includes numerous higher education institutions, public organizations and consultancy firms in Lithuania. The detailed information on INFOBALT is available at www.infobalt.lt.

#5 INFORING AS
Estonian TELEBALT focal point is the company INFORING AS. This company is one of the major publishing houses in Estonia. It has quite a long history of implementation of international telematic projects. In particular, INFORING AS has been the main organizer of UNIDO Informatics Dissemination Centre in Tallinn in 1994-95. The information concerning INFORING AS you find at www.mereinfo.com.

#6 CODATA
CODATA is the major international organization in the field of scientific and technological data handling, processing and studies. It is a part of the International Council on Science and, at the same time, an independent international organization. 2" countries and 14 International Scientific Unions are CODATA members. It is well known in scientific community by efficient implementation of numerous projects dealing with high tech promotion in the third countries.

#7 PROJECT COMPONENTS
The work of TELEBALT is divided into six work packages. Deployment of Information Dissemination Centres is the key deliverable of the WP2 "IST information dissemination and information demonstration centres". The three Baltic IDCs will be deployed in Riga in Open Latvia, in Vilnius in INFOBALT and in Tallinn in INFORING AS. The main EU produced telematic products to be implemented in the Baltic states in the framework of TELEBALT are PL@ZA teleworking system, developed by Teamware, Helsinki, Finland and Virtual Presence System VPS/COBROW developed by Ulm University in Germany.

#8 TELEBALT TRAINING COURSES
TELEBALT training course on the European Union, FP5, FP6 and new opportunities for pre-accession countries will consist of five lectures. Three of them "European Union", "Enlarging European Union" and "Fifth and Sixth Framework Programmes" are ready and available at the TELEBALT Web site. www.ednes.org/telebalt.

#9 ENLARGING THE EUROPEAN UNION-1
This lecture focuses at the three Baltic pre-accession states. Elements of history, pre-accession situation and pre-accession strategy for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia is described in details in this lecture.

#10 ENLARGING THE EUROPEAN UNION-2
The maps clearly show the process of enlarging the European Union from EU-6 in 1952 to EU-15 in 1995.

#11 FIFTH AND SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMES
The FP5 constitutes the priorities for the European Union's research, technological development and demostration activities for the period 1998 - 2002. The distribution of the programme budget of 13 700 millions euro is shown on the chart.

#12 SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
The seven priority orientations of the Sixth Framework Programme are listed. Correspondingly, the lecture 4 of the course entitled "Participation in FP6: Opportunities for Pre-accession States" will describe structure, budget and participants, types of programmes available for pre-accession countries participation, rules and conditions of participation in FP6 and contact information.

##13-16 EU DEVELOPED TELEMATIC TOOLS
Colaborative browsing toolkit (COBROW) and Virtual Presence System (VPS), developed by Ulm University along with European Knowledge Platform (EKP) and PL@ZA groupware are the telematic products that TELEBALT project will demonstrate, adapt and implement for teleworking in the three Baltic states.

#17 MASTER-TOUR
MASTER-TOUR is an efficient telematic tool which is used in numerous tourist companies in NIS countries. It has been developed by Russian company MEGATEK in collaboration with European partners.

#18-21 TELEBALT ON THE WEB
The four TELEBALT web sites are launched in EDNES, INFOBALT, Open Latvia and INFORING AS. These site are all linked with each other. You can reach the TELEBALT on the web system visiting one of the addresses given on the slides. The web sites are target oriented. The one in OPEN LATVIA deals with tourism and social integration. Lithuanian TELEBALT web site is devoted to telematics applications in business. Estonian web site focuses on new employment opportunities for the citizens of the Baltic states.

#22 TELEBALT CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Four major gatherings are planned by TELEBALT. These the Kick-off meeting in Vilnius in December 2001 and the workshop in Riga in April 2002 which have been already successfully implemented. The major TELEBALT conference "TELEWORKING FOR BUSINESS, EDUCATION AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE" will be held in Vilnius 22-23 October 2002. The outlook workshop"TELEMATICS TO PREVENT UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS3 will be held in Tallinn in September 2003.