The EU2020 initiative and the new (2014-2020) budgeting and programming period is raising new requirements, necessitating different approaches. Economic development, employment, modernisation and social aspects are considered in novel synergic contexts.Our corresponding medium term concept is addressing these challenges and adjusts the Network’s activities, tools and modus operandi accordingly.In compliance with our 3 years’ strategic plan, there are 3 strands of the work programme for 2015:- organisational and promotional support to members/partners in their activities,- development of new tools to recognise and award excellence in the field of digital and open education and e-learning, including promotion of best research and practice papers,- refreshing our activities to reach out and serve a growing community of ET stakeholders, using new organisational tools.In 2015 we increase stakeholder access to our collaborative platform facilitating professional dialogue, information & networking activities. The 2 regular face-to-face conferences (annual and thematic) will be supplemented by 2 new events organised by member institutions with the support and endorsement of EDEN. We also aim at providing new, much sought after training opportunities embedded/attached to our well-attended conferences to increase the professional benefit of attendance. Remote access to the plenary content of our conferences will be enabled by web-streaming and the publication of video interviews with the keynote speakers. Those educational stakeholders who do not speak English, can also enjoy reading multilingual publications both on our website and in the 2 EURODL Special Editions (freely accessible online + 500 printed copies).Renowned awards of recognition (Best Research Paper Awards and EDEN Fellow titles) will be extended to support a new generation of educators, and excellence will be more intensively promoted by the introduction of new schemes, i.e. the Best Practice Initiative (BPI) Awards, and the sponsorship of Young EDEN Fellows.With the Opening up Education scheme, the European Commission has provided a timely and sensitive initiative to the most significant recent challenge in the world of education: the dynamic raise of open educational resources, MOOCs and their institutional-structural-systemic implications. We will be working on new solutions to involve the professional community in these innovative movements.The Operating Grant will enable us to develop the core staff’s key skills and competences and facilitate enhanced governance and deeper involvement of the Executive Committee and NAP Steering Committee members in the development and execution of a brand new, ET policy reform promoting and supporting operational and communication strategy. The new initiatives and tools will be discussed and endorsed during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of EDEN members.The European ET community will enjoy and benefit from other new services of strategic importance, such as the monthly thematic #EDENChats (storified Twitter discussions) and the online EDEN Academy, a selection of courses, MOOCs and useful references aiding professional development. In EU projects we continue to play an active role in research and policy-making, dissemination, networking and sustainability, and the synergy-building amongst EU projects and the European ET community continues to intensify in the next 3 years period.