CLIX cleared for takeoff with EUROCONTROL

Saarbruecken/Berlin, 2nd December 2008 – IMC AG, Europe’s leading learning technologies provider, today announced that EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, has chosen CLIX as its future Learning Management System (LMS). The intergovernmental organisation headquartered in Brussels/Belgium is in charge of ensuring a safe and efficient air transport system across Europe. As part of its activities, EUROCONTROL puts a particular focus on delivering adequate Air Traffic Management training, provided by its “Institute of Air Navigation Services” (IANS), located in Luxembourg. “We have chosen CLIX because of the flexibility it offers which is critical to the success of learning activities at our organisation. Against this background our aim is to replace our existing LMS at the earliest possible moment and benefit from the new feature-rich CLIX software”, says Max Bezzina, eLearning-coordinator at IANS.

After a call for tenders procedure lasting several months, IMC AG has beaten off intense competition from other international providers to win the contract with EUROCONTROL. “CLIX has already been chosen by the European Patent Office as well as the EuropeAid Co-operation Office and so we are very pleased that another European organisation has opted in favour of IMC and our CLIX learning management software”, says IMC’s CEO Dr. Wolfgang Kraemer.

Initially, CLIX will be rolled out for 20.000 users. A number of eLearning modules are open to individuals who are nationals of the EUROCONTROL Member States. In 2009 all air traffic management related courses of IANS will be managed by the new software. “The implementation of CLIX is a major step toward becoming a focal point of eLearning activities in European air traffic management training”, says Bezzina.

In the past, EUROCONTROL-IANS have predominantly offered pure eLearning courses and pure classroom training courses. CLIX will make the organisation much more flexible in combining eLearning with classroom training, claims IMC, and the number of Blended-Learning-Courses may be increasing. Furthermore, EUROCONTROL is aiming to efficiently administer all its internal provider of training activities such as IANS in Luxembourg, the “Central Flow Management Unit”, located in Brussels, and the “Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre”, in a single, central Learning Management System. “We are looking forward to working with IMC in order to streamline our administration processes and improve our training services for our stakeholders and the interested public in 38 countries”, says Bezzina. Karen Schmidt, International Public Sector Director of IMC adds “We are immensely proud to have won the confidence of an organisation that delivers the highest levels of training on such a safety critical service.”

About EUROCONTROL-IANS

EUROCONTROL is the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation. Created in 1963 by six founding members, this civil and military intergovernmental organisation now counts 38 Member States from across Europe. It is based in Belgium with specialised offices in six other European countries. EUROCONTROL ensures that airspace users and passengers benefit from a safe, expeditious and efficient air transport system in Europe. This is done together with its Member States, air navigation service providers, civil and military airspace users, airports, the aerospace industry, international organisations and the European institutions.

The “Institute of Air Navigation Services” (IANS), located in Luxembourg, develops and delivers Air Traffic Management (ATM) Training for air navigation service providers, civil and military state authorities of EUROCONTROL Member States and EUROCONTROL Agency staff. The Institute was created in 1969. Since its creation IANS has trained more than 40.000 students. The majority of course participants are highly qualified multi lingual adult learners from the EUROCONTROL Member States. IANS proposes courses in various ATM-domains such as Aeronautical Information Management, Airport Throughput, Airspace Management, Data Processing System, Navigation or Safety Management.