In most European countries there is a high demand for tailored remedial teaching materials for
mathematics enabling the transition of students from schools to higher education, in particular
engineering students. As a rule, existing content for remedial mathematics is available in a single
language only, rarely online and badly accessible. Moreover, it is represented in multiple formats, in
various notations, and cannot be tailored to the learners' needs.

EU Project Math-Bridge aims at changing this situation to the better and helps to bridge the gap between
schools and higher education in Europe. It will provide multi-lingual and multi-cultural semantic
access (e.g. search and course generation) to remedial mathematics content which adapts to the
requirements of a learner and his/her subject of study. It will bring together content from different
European sources and offer it in a unified way. This access will be provided through a sustainable
Pan-European learning service for remedial mathematics, which will be built by collecting
appropriate learning resources, extending them in terms of structure and multi-linguality and
making them useful and easy-to-find. The extended formats of the content will make a wider use of
standards and, hence, will make this content re-usable and “transferable” between different learning
environments. In order to achieve its goals Math-Bridge will study the (target) competencies
required for target subjects of study, adapt existing semantic and multi-lingual search software,
tailor assessment tools and methodologies, and adjust the cutting-edge ActiveMath learning
environment to the remedy-scenario which includes specific diagnostic means and decisions for the
transition from school to higher education. The service will be able to adapt to the level of learner
competences and interests.

Moreover, Math-Bridge will enable collaborative authoring of the content on the basis of Creative
Commons’ licenses and improve instrumental support to collaborative authoring. This will
stimulate collaborative production and assembly of educational content, which, we believe, is a
future must. The results will be usable way beyond mathematics.