Project: Completamento e potenziamento del Centro di Formazione a Distanza Satellitaria dell'Università di Lecce started in 2003 and ended in December 2005. The project, which was co-financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) and by the European Fund for Regional Development (FESR), brought to the realization of:
• n. 8 multimedia rooms equipped with satellite receiving and transmitting apparatuses and tools, distributed across the entire Salento territory
• n. 10 satellite routers based in the LRP standard
• post-production system for lessons and other events
• video serving system for deferred lesson download
• remote control system for remote multimedia rooms management
• n. 50 satellite receivers for single receiving stations
• implementation of audio/video signal encoding/decoding and encryption/decryption protocols
• implementation of COPS (Common Open Policy Service) protocol, based on the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standard
• set-up of a web-based e-learning system (LMS) for the management of distance learning services and contents
The project was co-financed within the Programma Operativo Nazionale "Ricerca, Sviluppo Tecnologico, Alta Formazione”, Asse II “Rafforzamento ed apertura del sistema scientifico e di alta formazione”, Misura II.2 – Azione b.

Project: Sostegno al funzionamento dell'Infrastruttura per la Formazione a Distanza Satellitare dell'Università Salentina. The project results from an interaction between the University of Lecce and the "Consorzio Universitario Interprovinciale Salentino" (CUIS), within the collaboration framework between University and Local Authorities for the development of the Salento territory.
The project consists in the strengthening of the receiving structures of the "Campus Satellitare Salentino" and the support to the realization of learning and cultural activities transmitted through the satellite system. The project will allow the Salento community to get the best benefits from the CSS e-learning system, in particular for what concerns the academic education and the refresher courses for human resources of public administrations and private companies.

Project MODUS - Multimedia Operative Distance-learning Services for Universities and Schools
The project, co-financed by the European Space Agency (ESA), started in March 2000 and ended in August 2001. Together with the University of Lecce, other partners in the project were: Space Software Italia, Alenia Spazio, Espresso and Clio. The project was the firs experiment of satellite based e-learning done by the University of Lecce, which introduced the dual transmission modality (satellite - terrestrial) for the delivery of the lessons and the complete integration with Internet standards and protocols.

Project ESMEE - Earth and Space Multimedia systems Enhancements and Extensions. The project, co-financed by the European Space Agency (ESA), started in December 2002 and ended in July 2004. The private company Clio was project partner of the University of Lecce. ESMEE is the natural prolongation and further development of the MODUS project. Several important improvements have been realised for the satellite transmission of audio and video, the most important of which are the "digital blackboard" and the synchronisation of web pages from the teacher to the students. Improvements at networking level were the implementation of Quality of Service in the end-to-end transmission, to ensure a high quality of data encryption/decryption and satellite transmission. On the receiving side a prototype of cost-effective Linux based satellite receiver was developed and the user interface was furthermore improved.