Five Virtual Tours of Irish Heritage Sites – Insites to Digital Heritage
We are working on the INSITES (Digital Cultural Heritage Custodians) Project, the project aims to increase the digital and immersive tourism skills of VET providers, business mentors and managers of cultural heritage custodians in order to create new and engaging digital cultural heritage tourism experiences for customers. Due to the COVID situation, many heritage and […]
Digital Balance – An Introduction
We’d like to tell you more about the Digital Balance Project. Digital Balance is a new approach to train VET teachers, leaders and managers in digital well-being. The end result will be to improve educators’ own digital competences, while also boosting the capacity of VET institutions to manage the digital transition. With so many […]
New Year – New You? How Social Prescribing Might Help
As we head into a new year, there is a lot of pressure on people to make a changes in their lives. Some people might feel alone or isolated, they might be suffering from anxiety or depression, or they just might need some support. This is where social prescribing can help and in these strange […]
The OUTPACE Project – Pop Culture Tourism in Action
We have had a fantastic time working on the OUTPACE Project, this one has been an absolute pleasure from start to finish. Although we didn’t get to meet our project partners in real life, due to the pandemic, we had some dynamic meetings online and we discovered so much about pop culture tourism. The overall […]
INDEED – Inclusive Digital Education for Entrepreneurs
We’d like to introduce you to the INDEED (Inclusive Digital Education for Entrepreneurs) Project. This is a timely project as business training and mentoring was traditionally a face-to-face endeavour, carried out with individuals or with small groups. The pandemic has changed this and entrepreneurship educators will have to improve and embrace their digital skills and […]
The Sustain Good Practice Healthy Food Service Compendium For SMEs
The SUSTAIN Good Practice Healthy Food Service Compendium is now available to download here. Be inspired by 50 case studies featuring healthy food businesses from all over Europe in our Good Practice Healthy Food Service Compendium. This online interactive guide is full of rich media resources, like videos, and additional learning links. The content provides a […]
Digital Crossroads – Portugal Approves the ‘Right to Disconnect’ Law
With so many people working from home due to the pandemic, the lines have become quite blurred as regards to working hours. We read with interest, the new ‘Right to Disconnect’ law that was recently passed in Portugal. The law now makes it illegal for employers to contact their staff outside working hours. Euronews goes […]
Meeting the DIGITAL Team – Athens 2021
Laurence is just back from an excellent event in Athens, Greece, where he got to meet the other partners involved in the DIGITAL Project (Digital Technologies to Improve Adult Learning. The project had a clear objective: increase the ability and motivation of educators working with low-skilled, low-qualified adults to use digital learning strategies and tools […]
The Students as Digital Civic Engagers Toolkit launches
At a time when digital technologies have revolutionized the way we live and work in all aspects of our lives, we believe it is more crucial than ever to provide high quality, sector-specific training opportunities which allow educators, lecturers and staff within HEIs to update their skills and embrace effective digital teaching and learning. Student […]