The 2012 Annual EDEN Conference in 
Porto was again a great success with 350 delegates with over 150 
presentations from all over the world. The event was rich both in 
content and in collaboration opportunities and was highly interactive 
not only face-to-face, but also on the web. The professional community 
followed the webcasts of the keynote sessions, the referenced links by 
the keynotes at the 
Conference blog (over 1300 visitors in 3 days) and shared experiences via 
Twitter (over 1400 tweets on the conference topic), Facebook (with 473 members of the 
Group), and Linkedin. A 
Scoop.it rolling issue collected the links, presentations, shared content of the conference with cca 1000 visitors online.
We thank the keynotes, the speakers and 
all delegates for their valuable inputs and contribution to the 
achievements and nice atmosphere of the conference.  See further 
information on downloadable keynote presentations, the Best Paper Award and the EDEN Fellow Awards below.
Plenary Sessions
To read the most interesting contributions (PPT) of key presenters, please, visit the
 Keynotes' site. Thanks to Universidade Aberta, the plenary sessions were 
webcasted and recorded. Recordings will be available soon.
Best Research Paper Award            

Ingeborg
 Bo, the Chair of the Jury in her introduction to the Best Research 
Paper Award said, that 'In the Jury's judgement the Award winning paper 
is an excellent  contribution to the theme of the conference on „Open 
Learning Generations - Closing the Gap from Generation 'Y' to the Mature
 Lifelong Learners“ and it is best  in  presenting applicable and 
transferable results based on a solid methodological approach. The 
findings are critically discussed with references to the relevant 
literature and with creative ideas for further research.' The Winner was
 announced at the Conference Dinner:
Reconsidering “Gen Y” & Co: From Minding the Gap to Overcoming it by 
Emanuele Rapetti and Lorenzo Cantoni, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Both papers as well as previous years' Best Research Papers are donwloadable from our 
Publications' site.