UNED, the Spanish University for Distance Education, is the only state-run Spanish distance-learning university and it is the largest university in Spain. Since 1972, UNED has been a center of excellence throughout the world with the aim of making higher education accessible to anyone. UNED is one of the largest European Universities with around 220,000 students, most of them adult students, and near 1,500 teachers. Its main focus is on distance learning (using all communication media) and continuous education. UNED delivers degrees on most disciplines and also open courses for continuous education. 

UNED’s particular teaching methodology incorporates intensive and extensive use of e-learning resources including interactive video lectures, remote and virtual labs, e-learning platforms, learning objects, augmented reality, mobile devices, or biometrics. Multiple research projects such as Remote-labs access in Internet-based Performance-centered Learning Environment for Curriculum Support (RIPLECS), Performance-centered Adaptive Curriculum for Employment Needs (PAC), mobile Performance Support for Vocational Education and Training (mPSS), are being or have been carried out by UNED.

Researchers  at  the  Electrical  and  Computer  Engineering  Department  (DIEEC)  of  UNED  have  more  than twenty years of experience covering  different developments in the areas that have been included in this project, within the so called Technology Innovation and Enhanced Learning and their applications. In Go-Lab the Department is involved in WP4 (Go-Lab Infrastructure), WP5 (Go-Lab Portal) and WP9 (Dissemination and Exploitation).