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Oikodomos (UE, LLL)


Project owner: Luca Botturi

Project staff: Andreas Schmeil

Period: October 2007 to December 2009

Funding agency: Europen Commission – LLP

Website: http://www.oikodomos.org

OIKODOMOS is a research project financed by the Lifelong Learning programme (2007-2009) carried out by higher education institutions and research centers from Belgium, France, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

The goal of the project is to create a virtual campus to promote the study of dwelling at a European scale. The aim of OIKODOMOS, a Greek word for “the builder of a house”, is to set an innovative learning structure in motion, incorporating on-line and on-site activities (blended learning).

This virtual campus is going to develop new methods to study housing in a multidisciplinary way, interweaving different courses and seminars, digital repositories and on-line learning environments, cases analysis and project workshops taking place at the participating institutions. Community representatives and local authorities in the participating countries are expected to participate in the project’s activities.


Schmeil Andreas (PhD student)


Andreas holds a German Master’s degree in Computer Science from Ulm University. His research at the NewMinE Lab focuses on Visual Collaboration and Learning Practices in 3D Virtual Environments. He aims to help improve remote team collaboration  and distance learning by visual communication and embodied group interaction.

Andreas is a member of the Red-Ink Doctoral School and member of the knowledge-communication.org team.

In the past, he has worked as a freelancing software engineer, as a research associate at Fraunhofer IAO, and most recently as a research assistant at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand, HIT Lab NZ.

Andreas is working on virtual worlds, collaborative virtual environments, computer-supported collaborative work, virtual campus

Download Andreas’ CV (PDF)

Contact Andreas at

Tel. +41 (0)58 666 4674
Mail: andreas.schmeil@lu.unisi.ch
Skype: aschmeil


  • NewMedia in Education Lab, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano