CALIBRATE is part of a new group of IST projects supported by the European Commission’s 6th  Framework Programme to help strengthen the integration of the ICT research effort in an enlarged Europe. The large-scale project gathers 17 partners, including six Ministries of Education and five other partners from new member states. 

CALIBRATE builds on the results of three successful IST projects under the European Commission's 5th Framework Programme (CELEBRATE, ITCOLE and VALNET). The project will allow teachers to carry out searches across a federation of learning repositories supported by six Ministries of Education (Austria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia).

It will also develop and implement an open source collaborative ‘learning toolbox’ for schools and carry out research into new ways to improve the semantic interoperability of learning resource descriptions. In short, CALIBRATE is a multi-level project that will add value to the services provided by national educational content portals and improve the ability of schools to easily locate, access and use a wider and more diverse collection of learning resources at a European level.

CALIBRATE will also link to a number of other EUN projects and initiatives that will build a wider framework and lay the foundations for the implementation of a new European Learning Resource Exchange (LRE). LRE will be accessible to all interested Ministries of Education participating in the EUN and other public and private sector owners of educational content repositories.