Mitja Jermol (Jozef Stefan Institute) gives a welcome talk at the Summer School on Advanced Technologies for Knowledge Intensive Networked Organizations. The motivation and program of the summer school are presented. Two leading European projects (ACTIVE and COIN) became the organizers of the summer school. More on ACTIVE and COIN can be found on their learning community websites: http://videolectures.net/active/, http://videolectures.net/coin/