They came to share their experiences and evaluate the work so far so that their feedback can be used to improve the system.
The main questions to be answered were:

• What sort of experience have teachers had with this portal?
• How have they searched for learning objects and what sort of results did they get?
• What is the real use they made/want to make of the learning resources that they found?

The summer school welcomed participants from Austria, Estonia, Finland, Flanders, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. They met at the Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen (Mechelen University College) and were welcomed by the burgomaster of Mechelen, Bart Somers. Outside of the work on the project, they also visited Technopolis, the unique technology educational museum of Flanders in Mechelen and were treated to a Flemish night at ‘t Arsenaal.

The MELT portal was designed to provide users of learning content in European schools with access to more useful types of metadata that will allow them to find resources that fit their needs, language, cultures and preferred ways of teaching and learning. It will also help the creation of Learning Resources Exchange, a public portal for all teachers in Europe that should be launched at the end of 2008.

See the video, read more:
http://info.melt-project.eu/ww/en/pub/melt_project/
news/summer_school.htm