E2 "Digital education for Enhanced Editorial products" is a two-year (February 2012- January 2014) Leonardo da Vinci project co-funded by the EU Lifelong Learning Program addressing the "Developing Vocational Skills considering the labour market needs - New Skills for New Jobs" priority.
It is addressed to small and medium publishers in the five partner countries involved in the initiative: Denmark, Italy, Lithuania, Spain and Turkey.

The publishing sector is facing new challenges caused by the technological development of new digital publishing materials. Digital assets, such as e-book, have enjoyed a considerable rise in popularity and consumption over the last years and a new technological frontline is just around the corner with the development of enhanced books, innovative mobile applications, interactive learning solutions, online communities, etc. In order to be competitive on the markets, publishing houses should be able to develop new editorial assets thereby keeping up with technological development. It becomes increasingly strategic for publishing houses to provide their workers with re-training and upgrading their skills in order to make them able to design and develop innovative multimedia and multimodal products.

E2 wants to provide small and medium publishing houses with a range of skills and competences in designing high quality e-publishing materials such as enhanced books, in order to promote creativity and competitiveness by using ICT tools.
The project will design and deliver an e-learning course addressed to small and medium publishers aimed at increasing their skills related to the e-publishing sector. Publishers will be also trained to develop marketing strategies in order to exploit opportunities and challenges of e-publishing. The course foresees an integration of learning with working.