NIS: Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory
The NIS Laboratory is the new coordinator of the project. NIS Lab contributes to the Stories project expertise in requirements and design specification for usability, human-computer interaction, user-oriented design and development, working with children, working with training software, data capture for, and evaluation of, novel and advanced interactive systems, and a Danish school environment which is focused on the use of IT and otherwise representative of Danish educational culture, Nr. Broby Skole (see below).

UGO, Department of Education, Gšteborg University
UGO is one of the pedagogical partners in Today's Stories. With knowledge and expertise in the area of educational and psychological research, ethnographic studies, educational practice, and ethics, UGO contributes to the overall integration of the educational, developmental and technological parts. UGO has been in charge of reflecting on the ethical aspects of implementing new innovating technology in existing educational practice. In addition, they participate in the discussion on the pedagodical roadmap, study the differences and similarities between the two experimental sites, and reflect on possible outcomes of using new technology for the developing child in the school context. Finally, they are responsible for constructing a framework for dialogue and involvement with and between teachers, parents and children from the two experimental sites.

Nr. Broby Skole, Odense
Odense lies on the Island of Funen and is Denmark's third largest city with a population in excess of 180,000 inhabitants. Nr. Broby Skole is located south west of Odense. Historically a rural community, now considered to be within the suburbs of Odense. Nr. Broby Skole is one of the four Grund Skole in the Broby school district offering education to children aged 6-14 years. It has 140 pupils and a staff pupil ratio of 1:10. Children are grouped in classes by age for most of their school day, subjects are taught on a mixed thematic and non-thematic based curriculum. Thematic curricula are considered important and often involve whole school participation e.g. a recent "art and environment" project resulted in the children's artwork being displayed throughout the district. The technology culture promotes easy access to technology. This is reflected in the physical arrangement of the networked machines. The network is centrally located in the main school hall. The space can be booked by individual members of staff for groups of pupils and accessed by pupils from different classrooms. In addition pupils can have individual access after-school.

CTI: Computer Technology Institute
CTI is a technical partner in Stories, contributing to the design and implementation (software development) of the editing, multi-media environment. CTI is participating in the procedure of defining the functionality and operation of the environments under development and plays an assisting role in the deployment of the technology for evaluation purposes. CTI has also contributed to the studies for the establishment, trial and evaluation of baseline technologies for the implementation of the Open School Communities by producing the first version of the Stories' Technology Roadmap deliverable.

LRF: Lambrakis Research Foundation
LRF could not be considered to be the technical co-ordinator (as foreseen in the technical description of STORIES project) under current conditions. It acts as co-ordinator of design work and 'broker'/facilitator of collaboration between designers and educator teams. Its main task has been the design of the software environment and the monitoring of educational and technological demands/problems/issues arising from the design proposals. LRF has also initiated a scenario-development discussion and will keep co-ordinating it in the future. Finally, LRF has initiated collaboration with a school in Greece, which contributed to concept and scenario development, although officially LRF is not involved in WP1 or WP2.

CFE: The Center for Futurism in Education
CFE is a pedagogical partner in Stories, contributing to the development of a futuristic approach to learning for young children (4 to 8). This approach which we call "Autonomy Oriented Education", is built around the notions of autonomy, morality and a sense of belonging. The pedagogical team details this framework and formulates suitable curriculum and concrete guidelines for positioning a pedagogical environment and for the use of technology. In addition, CFE defines and examines success criteria and evaluation methods, and follow-up methods for day to day school activity which we use in 2 school sites and 4 kindergartens.

Starlab
Starlab was the coordinator of the project until Starlab was closed june 12 2001. Starlab performed the required technology watch to assure the relevance of the results in the wider technological landscape. Starlab provided the integrating vision of the technology, and was the key in the demonstrations of the project. Starlab played an assisting role in the deployment of the technology for educational purposes and for the evaluation. Its involvement was focused mainly on the usability aspects. As an industrial partner Starlab also pursued an exploitation interest in the project. It used it to expand its activities as a research organization for third parties on innovative multi-media technology, and on wearable computing in particular.