E-LANE(European-Latin American New Education) is a project funded by the European Comission though the @LIS programme, whose objective it is to prepare and implement e-courses in Latin America. There are 5 European partners in the consortium (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES),Telefónica I+D (ES), Trinity College of Dublin (IR), University of Reading (UK), Institut National des Télécommunications (FR)) and 5 Latin-American ones (Universidad Galileo (GT), Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (MX), Universidad del Cauca (CO), Universidad de Chile (CH), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (BR)).

Instead of developing a new e-learning platform from scratch or using a commercial one, we have decided to contribute to the .LRN open source effort in a number of ways. We are having our kick-off meeting next week in Guatemala, and from then on we hope to help push forward this initiative, as well as take advantage of the good work that is being carried out worldwide.