Laura Garcia Vitoria first teacher at the ENA school, at Paris IV-Sorbonne and at the National Institute for Telecommunications (INT). She was responsible for the educational and administrative direction of the distance education reasearch project SYNTAGMA3 (system ETSIT / distance education lessons per satellite, in visioconference and cooperative work with real-time interactivity). She then was project chef of ARENOTECH for the European projects WEEST - Women Education and Employment in Science and Technologies – (Programm CONNECT) and for MOSAIC - Museums Over States And vIrtual Culture - (Program TEN TELECOM). She was named a member of the board of the ASBL " Evaluation et Prospective " created with the cooperation of the Center TUDOR and of the Luxemburg Ministry of the Economy., at present supervise the Territories of Tomorrow Living Lab and leads the Innovation and Knowledge Community created around him.
Co-founder of the "Observatoire Numérique“ and of the "Club du Futur“, scientific director of the European Network of Digital Cities and of the Foundation territories of Tomorrow, it is first of all her works on the virtual university since 1994 and her realisations in terms of collaborative work – through for example the creation of an Intranet for the teaching of languages at the Leonardo de Vinci University in 1996 – that place her at the head of ARENOTECH (European organisation for Art, Education and New technologies) founded twelve years ago followinf the Venise Call issued at the Correr Museum in the spring 1996 and gathering together teachers, researchers and actors of the economy of the innovation.
Beyond the elaboration of knowledge systems, of their management and transmission, of innovation processes and transfer of competencies, it is the whole knowledge economy that retains her attention, notably with the program "Villes et territoires de la connaissance" (Cities and territories of knowledge) lead by the RVN and of which she drew a fist sketch at a seminar organised in 2003 at the Paris city hall and of which of first synthesis was presented in 2005 at the Institute of prospective Technology of Sevilla, at the Society and Information World Summit in Tunis, as well as in the reflexion framework on the future strategy of the EU on territorial cohesion.
Author of numerous articles and conferences, she is regularly consulted by various international organisms on the development of strategies based on innovation, research and creativity. She is hence brought to intervene in the domain of French-speaking communities for which she has prepared a series of propositions at the occasion of the Alexandrie symposium on the transmission of knowledges and of the Timisoara Forum on information technologies (March 2006), but also in the ones of the territorial management of knowledge, notably through her intervention at the international symposium organised by the Tunis-Carthage University in April 2006.
She co-bosses the online ARENOTECH review and regularly intervenes in international meetings in Beyrouth, Sarajevo, Marrakech or Cayenne. She participated at the redaction of the Luxembourg Declaration in the domain of cultural tourism, collaborated in the accompaniement of the Study Points set up by the Digital University of Britanny and their insertion in a European network. She was elected administrator of the cultural industry competitivity cluster of the Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur region. She was invited to participate in the piloting committee of the scientific council in charge of preparing the sustainable development charta for the first world congress of business districts (14th and 15th February 2008 at the Defense in Paris) and lead in this respect the cluster "Economie du savoir" (Knowledge Economy). She was part of the "Grand Prix de l'environnement 2007“ jury and of the expert group charged to accompany in terms of prospectives the regional council of the Auvergne, as well as the regional council of Loire Atlantique, participates in the activities of the Europe-Africa Institute and is member of the piloting committee of the 1st Europea Forum on electronical communication and of the scientific council of Tech for Food, the organising entity of the day dedicated to the New technologies within the Salon international de l'agriculture in 2008. She delivers her columns to international portals such as the one of the e-government of the Latin-American countries and she was appointed to the scientific council of the international Congress on technological innovation of the Open Interamerican University.