Laura Garcia Vitoria was 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" at present supervise the Territories of Tomorrow Living Lab and disemination european project « ProInterNet » (programe Leonardo da Vinci).

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 the Paris city hall and of which of first synthesis was presented 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, but also in the ones of the territorial management of knowledge. She co-bosses the online ARENOTECH review and regularly intervenes in international meetings. She participated at the redaction of the Luxembourg Declaration in the domain of cultural tourism.

Accompanying the work on the "Institut Supérieur Africain des Technologies de l'Information et de la Connaissance" living laboratories to develop in South America, Europa and Africa - from the Laboratory of the Fondation des usus Territoires de Demain which is responsible - and is a member also the steering committee of decentralized cooperation Franco-Japanese and Franco-Russian. Laura Garcia Vitoria is also responsible for the international activities of the Living Lab "Carrefour des Entreprises de l'Est Parisien".

Author of numerous books, articles, Laura Garcia Vitoria is regularly consulted by various agencies on issues relating to the knowledge economy and the genesis of a knowledge society. Member of the expert committee of the e-learning platform "e-Taalim.com" a means of meetings and exchanges of information between professionals in the e-training and their environment, also chaired the jury of the "Trophées éducative et des Technologies au service du numérique des territoires" (www.educatec-educatice.com).

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