The University Politehnica of Bucharest is the largest technical university in Romania, having over
22,000 students. More than 2000 students are enrolled in the Computer Science and Engineering
department, in bachelor, MSc and PhD programs of study. The department also runs the National
Center for Information Technology (NCIT), which is an EU Center of Excellence (EU-CIT). It has
18 full professors and 34 teaching assistants, researchers and PhD students. The mission of the Center is to promote advanced and inter-disciplinary research, to sustain the development of human resources in postgraduate educational programs. The Centers activity relies on a collaborative virtual environment using high-performance computing resources and computer-supported cooperative work tools. The Center is actively involved in international cooperation with similar centers, partnerships with IT companies and development of national and international projects (EU-NCIT, COOPER, SINTEC, CoLaborator, IKF, AGCOR, EGEE, SEEGRID, RoGRID, CODESTAR, REASON). The main role of the PUB-NCIT team in the project is to contribute to WP5 and WP6. Moreover, PUB-NCIT will take the lead in WP5 “Support and feedback during learning”. Additionally, PUB-NCIT will take an active role in WP7 “Validation”.