First time I met someone from EDEN was at the first meeting of ODL Liaison Committee in 1996. President Prof. Rocha Trindade, Universidade Aberta, and Dr. Andras Szucs, BME, were the EDEN representatives and I was VP of EUCEN. From the several conversations I noticed that EDEN was an organization that I could work with. The result was the first EDEN research workshop in 2000 in Prague with the cooperation of EUCEN. It is a characteristic of EDEN to be open and cooperative that still shines in its actions.