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Year 2006

Obtained funding from the FP6 programme of the EC for the SELF Project. SELF was coordinated byt the Internet Society Netherlands, and during this phase the FKI core team was established as a working group within ISOC.nl.

Year 2007

January: FKI Launch party in Amsterdam.
Organise the FKFT Conference In Barcelona; 200 participants came over from all continents.
Completed the SELF project, positively evaluated by the EC reviewers.

Obtain funding from EC LLP Education & Training Programme for the Free Technology Academy, with FKI as coordinating partner.
The FKI coordinates Request for adherence to Open Standards to EC Agencies and EuroParliament.
The FKI joins the Open Net Coalition, warns for ACTA: a global threat to freedom and participates in an open letter to Euro Parliament.
Co-organise the first Free Culture Forum in Barcelona, co-produce the Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge, and a Free Knowledge extended version.

Publication of "Ten Points For Change".
Run FTA Pilot Study Programme with ca. 160 learners.
Published course books are downloaded > 100.000 times in first nine months.
Join as partner in the EC/LLP funded openSE project to design the Knowledge Sharing Policies (for Software, Standards and Educational Materials).
Publish The Knowledge Society from a Freedom Centred Perspective, as book chapter in the Dutch Open Source Yearbook and as Conference paper in the Free Culture Research Conference in Berlin.
Completion of the FTA project and positive evaluation by the EC/Lifelong Learning Programme

Continuation of the FTA by the founding consortium (FKI, UOC, OUNL), expansion of the partner network
Participation in the OKFN Conference in Berlin
End 2011 the FTA Consortium is concludes that the study programme can't be continued as is and the FTA continues as a community hosted by the FKI