/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= Invite your students to live the fantastic experience of the 5th edition of the **International Student Design Contest (2024) * “PEOPLE CENTERED SMART LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS” */@// //9th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development// / LOOKING FOR TRACES OF THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT: SUPPORTING WELL-BEING GROWTH FOR ALL June 27-28, 2024 Troyes, France (UTT) video presentation <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1uniAnuRM> /========================================================= Deadline for ideas submission: *May 5, 2024 (extended - hard deadline) https://www.slerd.org/contest/*/ /=========================================================/ Contact: slerd24-contest(a)utt.fr <mailto:slerd24-contest@utt.fr>or aslerd.org(a)gmail.com ========================================================= /Winner: /will be awarded with 500 € grant /Finalists: /all have the opportunities to attend the conference for free, to present their projects and to have living expenses covered by ASLERD. ========================================================= *DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT and GOALS* Smart Learning Ecosystems should perform at best on all the dimensions that contribute to the  well-being of students and all players involved in the development of a learning process: /infrastructures, food, environment, info/admin services, mobility, safety, social interaction, satisfaction, challenges, self-fulfillment/. Being inspired by the flow theory and by the Maslow’s pyramid, we can state that: ecosystems are smart when /“individuals that take part in the local processes achieve a high level of skills and, at the same time, are also strongly motivated and engaged by continuous and adequate challenges, provided that their primary needs are reasonably satisfied”./ The smartness of learning ecosystems, thus, is not created merely through the availability of digital infrastructures and applications. When technologies are both available and adopted enthusiastically, they can start to make a difference in both simplifying and accelerating progress toward the achievement of system smartness. One has to keep in mind, however, that technologies are smart not because they are capable of replacing human reasoning but, rather because they can help towards achieving a people centered smartness, through streamlining mundane organisational tasks, and enhancing the skills of all actors involved in learning processes. Our duty, with the help of technology, is to support learning ecosystems (formal, informal, non-formal) to develop their people centered smartness towards becoming incubators of social innovation and engines of sustainable regional development./Smartness is a goal/ and we can support our learning ecosystems along the process to achieve it by proposing solutions capable to solve or mitigate problems that prevent the learning ecosystems to be people centered. We expect students, wishing to take part in the contest, to analyze their learning ecosystem, detect problems and find solutions that can help their, and as well other learning ecosystems, to get smarter. Proposals submitted to this call are expected to address thesame general themes of the call for papers of the conference, namely: * places for smart education, * people in place centered design for smart education, * supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education. ========================================== Important dates: --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for ideas submission to slerd24-contest(a)utt.fr <mailto:slerd24-contest@utt.fr>and aslerd.org(a)gmail.com: *May 5th, 2024  (extended - hard deadline)* • Selection of the best 3 proofs of concepts and prototypes (finsalists): May 15th, 2024 • Presentation and demo at SLERD 2024 and winner announcement:  June 27th and 28th, 2024 ========================================== Early bird registration to the main conference, SLERD 2024, is now open: https://www.slerd.org/registration-form/ *Deadline for early bird registration to SLERD 2024: April 30th* SLERD 2024 is featuring the keynotes by: /*Élise Lavoué *//*(Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University)*/ /*TAILORED GAMIFICATION FOR LEARNER ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION */*/Carmel Cefai /**/(University of Malta)/* *A SYSTEMIC, WHOLE-SCHOOL APPROACH TO WELL-BEING **/Isabella Chiodi/*/****/*/(ISF)/* *PROJECT ITac@ – IT ACADEMY FOR WOMEN 18-50 : challenges and preliminary results* /* */and a on-line open debate on *Artificial Intelligence and (human) Learning *Panelists:* **Roger Azevedo*, University of Central Florida, USA *Manuel Gentile*, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche *Dirk Ifenthaler*, University of Mannheim, Germany *Susanna Sancassani*, METID, Politecnico di Milano, Italy *Davinia Hernández-Leo*, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain * *Moderator:* */*Donatella Persico*(ASLERD and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche)/* * ==========================================