Welcome to the Educopia Institute

The Educopia Institute is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)3 educational organization dedicated to improving scholarly communication in socially responsible ways. Because of the critical importance of digital media in contemporary communication, a key goal of the Institute is to foster the advancement of systems infrastructures in academic and cultural institutions. Educopia acts as a catalyst to assist and advise academic and cultural institutions in the creation of new digital means of communicating and preserving the cultural record.

What does Educopia do?

In the furtherance of these aims, Educopia specializes in the following:

Providing organizational support for collaborative and cooperative programs in educational institutions such as libraries, archives, and universities.
Advising Services to conduct research and share results through consulting activities; producing publications; and hosting symposia, seminar, and workshop activities.
Coordinating services to catalyze cross-institutional projects with academic and cultural institutions, applying for grants on their behalf, and administering such grants when awarded

These activities are broadly construed, such that Educopia may act as a catalytic entity to effect positive transformative change in the field of education.

Why do we need Educopia? Despite the fact that research institutions lead the development of new theoretical advances in technology, their own infrastructures often trail far behind that of the commercial sector. The Educopia Institute was founded to improve the capabilities of academic and cultural institutions through collaborative projects that aim to answer the common needs of this extended community, especially the need for cyberinfrastructure modules and practical models to assist cultural memory organizations with digital curation and digital preservation practices.

The leaders of the Educopia Institute are experienced in the activities of planning, fundraising for, and implementing shared cyberinfrastructure projects for scholarly communication. The strength of the Institute’s approach comes precisely from its decentralized goal of fostering the creation of successful cyberinfrastructure elements in the community, rather than through a process of accumulating assets of its own. This approach builds strength in the extended community of beneficiaries whom the Institute assists.