Include Her – Empowering Female Migrants in Digital Skills
We’d have been lost without digital technology during the Covid crisis. Most of our lives are now carried out online, from work zoom meetings to online shopping and communicating with friends and family. Imagine if you’d recently moved to a new country, with a new language, how would you cope? Also imagine if you were […]
Students as Digital Civic Engagers – an Introduction
We’d like to introduce you to one of our newer projects, Students as Digital Civic Engagers (Student DCE). The aim of the project is to increase the digital skills and civic engagement knowledge of HEI managers and academic staff in order to empower students to become confident civic engagers through the use of digital technologies. […]
GEM – Helping Enterprises Grow – Pilot Testing
The past couple of months have been a very busy and exciting time at Momentum. Throughout February and March 2021, we along other business coaches from across Europe have been busy putting the Erasmus+ Growing European Micro-enterprise project (GEM) to the test as they commence pilot testing of the GEM Learning Portal with the launch […]
The Eminent Project – Enabling Female Migrant Entrepreneurs
We are busy working on Eminent, this project aims at supporting female migrant entrepreneurs. We know it can be particularly hard for women who move to a new country and to add starting a business to the mix it can become very daunting. We hope to help with this issue with the knowledge and expertise […]
Migrant Community Mediators – Helping to Empower and Inspire
The Migrant Community Mediators is a project that we are very passionate about. We can empathise with the issues that migrants face in their new homes, we know it can be extremely hard trying to fit into a new country. There are so many new rules and it is a completely different way of life […]
Restart+ Communities – Empowering and Inspiring Community Groups
In this blog post we are going to tell you more about the Restart + Communities project. Communities were always a driving force in the localities but during Covid-19 they have proved to be the backbone of society. They have supported the vulnerable living in their areas, we have seen meals being cooked, shopping being […]
Smart Up – Screening for Business Health
You don’t need us to tell you what a tough year it has been for so many people, and not just for people but also for businesses. The Smart Up project has become invaluable during the Covid-19 pandemic. The main participants of this project are early-stage entrepreneurs and established SME owner-managers. Some people have started […]
Visual Literacy for Engineering Education – A closer look
In this post we have looked at the work of Professor Maria Yang Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Undergraduate Officer; MIT D-Lab Faculty Academic Director. Professor Yang teaches students how to uncover ways to improve design in the world around them. This is so relevant for our Visual Literacy for Engineering Education Project. This project objective […]
Pop Culture Tourism – the Outpace Project
Although we can’t travel at the moment the OUTPACE Project is looking ahead to the days when we can. This project focuses on the connection between tourism experiences and pop culture. What do we mean by pop culture tourism? Simply speaking, it’s travel motivated by pop culture phenomena, such as books, films, and music. Think […]