• born in Czech Republic

  Language skills: 

Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5
(5 - excellent; 1 - basic)

  Other skills:  (e.g. Computer literacy, etc.)

Computer skills: MS Office (all applications), Lotus Smart Suite (all applications, including databases), CorelDraw, Photoshop, FrontPage, PageMill, ThumbsPlus, Acrobat, ArcView, Microsoft Project, Ulead Video Studio, etc…

  Present position:

owner and directress of Cross Czech company, president of a non-profit organization Cordia

• Key qualifications:

Romana Krizova is also the founder and the president of the non-profit organisation Cordia which was set up in 1998 in Prague. Cordia aims at supporting Czech organisations to take part in projects at European level and to establish cross-European partnerships exchanching the expertise and know-how. Cordia helps to involve Czech organisations in European integration process and to get the EC funding for both national and European activities.

Romana Krizova is the founder and owner of Cross Czech company founded in 1992 in Prague. The company is focused on adult education activities.  Since 1997 Cross Czech has been intensively co-operating with  Czech public and cultural institutions helping them to promote and present their activities on European level and to handle the technical side of the work in the area of ICT.

Cross Czech co-operates with public and cultural institutions mainly in the area of:

·   digitising their rich sources of information in most suitable, compatible and up-to-date digital formats

·   information/content management,

·   preparation of data to be exploited in Internet or mobile applications

·   setting up dissemination and exploitation strategies on European level

·   training in above-mentioned areas

·   taking part in European projects and related training, managing, co-ordinating and consulting activities

Participation in EC funded projects:

Cross Czech was the co-ordinator of Czech part of BLEN (Bobbin Lace European Network) project funded by Raphael programme in 1997-1999. Partners from Spain, Finland, Czech Republic and Portugal. The aim of the project was to set up a virtual lace museum and the international network of lace-makers and lace designers.

Currently Cross Czech is an initiator, the consortium member and Czech co-ordinator of Chimer project being funded by FP5 programme IST (Information Society Technologies). The charm and importance of this project lies in its focus on working with children who are main project content providers. The project aims to establish the European Cultural Heritage Archive. The content of this archive will be based on local heritage from 6 partners’ countries. The scientific and general information provided by museologists and teachers will be complemented by children’s interpretation CHIMER is supporting the natural creativity and investigation of children by encouraging them to explore new tools for creating digital content. Twelve-year-olds in 5 countries of Europe will follow the guidance of museologists and teachers in building digital maps combining geographical coordinates detected using GPS devices with the creative use of mobile technologies and digital cameras. In this way, children will combine drawings and photographic images with their own comments on items of interest. Little by little, they will participate solidly in creating a digital archive of their own towns, villages and surrounding communities which should enhance interest in the region, not only for children but for other age groups.

At the moment Cross Czech is at the negotiation process with the project eTitle which is about to get funded by eContent programme. eTITLE will develop and test new products, services and business models that allow European media owners to exploit their content internationally, through multilingual and cross-platform localisation. The project combines state-of the art and emerging technologies for speech-to-text recognition; automated metadata tagging and timecode linkage; automatic and machine translation; sentence shortening and multilingual subtitle placement. These will combine into an on-line B2B service that prepares localized audio-visual media for cross-platform delivery by streaming, broadcast and DVD media. The eTITLE Demonstrator will work across English, Spanish, Catalan and Czech. The partners comprise a technology provider, a University development centre and three European content providers from UK, E, CZ supported by a nonpartner user group of international media groups. eTITLE will evaluate the technology and test the business model in the

expectation of marketing a service following completion.

Cross Czech will also be involved in the project MINERVA Plus as an external expert and advisor of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The project intends to enlarge the existing network of European Ministries to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content, for creating an agreed European common platform, recommendations and guidelines about digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation. It starts from the need to extend the good results already achieved by the present network, and pave the way to a full integration of new countries in the existing European mainstream. It aims to co-ordinate national programmes, and its approach is strongly based on the principle of embeddedness in national digitisation activities. The work plan includes activities to:

·           animate work groups to provide the political and technical framework for improving digitisation activities of cultural and scientific contents;

·           facilitate the adoption of the Lund principles, in EU Member States, accession countries and other European countries, to amplify the impact of the eEurope initiative;

·           support collaboration on scientific research;

·           increase the dimension, make visible, promote and exchange information about National Policy profiles concerning digitisation;

·           identify users’ needs, define training schemes and develop recommendations;

·           make available test-beds, defining mechanisms for evaluating models, methodologies, techniques and approaches;

·           implement the existing benchmarking framework on digitisation, able to compare and improve quality of national approaches and promote best practice across Europe;

·           co-organise a plenary meeting every six months, hosting also thematic workshops to present and discuss results achieved by the specific work groups;

·           promote concertation events open to both EU and other national projects, to create clusters of projects;

·           promote dissemination and training activities at national level, acquisition of new skills and access to existing resources.

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