Laura Garcia Vitoria first teached 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).
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 Fest
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.