MATURE has once again been invited to this year's Professional Training Facts 2011. Christine Kunzmann has organized a session on Motivational and Affective Aspects in Competence Development in joint initiative with the MIRROR project. In this session, Verónica Rivera Pelayo presented approaches to capturing affective state from the MIRROR project, associate partner Josef Hofer-Alfeis presents his experiences on employee motivation, and Christine Kunzmann presented conclusions from the research in MIRROR and MATURE.

• Andreas Schmidt: The Role of Motivational & Affective Aspects: Introduction 
• Josef Hofer-Alfeiss: Improving Employee Motivation and Innovation Performance
• Verónica Rivera Pelayo: Personal Informatics for Capturing Emotions
• Christine Kunzmann: The Role of Motivational & Affective Aspects: Empirical Results and Future Directions

Furthermore Graham Attwell gave an inspiring talk on Mobile Learning: Using Mobiles for Learning, Developing and Sharing Knowledge

During the breaks, the MATURE team discussed with participants of the event at the booth and gave explanations on MATURE results and possibilities for future collaboration.