Pop Culture Tourism – Opportunities for our Region
OUTPACE is one of the interesting projects that we are working on at the moment. It’s all about the tourism opportunities and possibilities arising from pop culture and how to inspire businesses to develop products and services and regions to become pop culture tourism destinations. Some people may not be sure what is meant by […]
Introducing the Migrant Community Mediators Project
MCM is an EU Erasmus+ Project bringing together partners and experts from Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Ireland and the Netherlands. MCM has a clear objective is a dynamic participatory adult education initiative to upskill and empower representatives of migrant communities to become agents for advancement in migrant integration and social inclusion as Migrant Community Mediators. […]
Bordeaux learning for Street Food Opportunities for Youth
One of the Erasmus projects we have been busy working on is Street Food – Opportunities for Youth. And you know we love our food projects. Street food is one of the most vibrant and fast-growing food movements across Europe, building on consumer interest in high quality, artisan food and the rising number of farmers’ […]
ROOTS Project Final Conference
On 2nd of July 2019, the North-East Regional Development Agency, organised the Final Conference of the ROOTs project “Recognising Cultural Heritage Opportunities for Tourism SMEs”, financed by the Erasmus+ Program, in Iași, Romania, at the „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University – The Senate Hall. The participants in the final conference had the opportunity to learn […]
Restart + Communities
We are busy working on a very interesting project that focuses around communities. This project aims to support the community champions so that they can drive their communities forward. Over the coming months, we will be looking at some inspiring community groups who have made a difference in the areas that they live in. We’ll […]
Using Virtual Reality in the Classroom
Virtual Reality or VR as it’s known is taking the world by storm. Along with augmented reality it can make the classroom a much more interesting place. With the Escola project in mind we were keen to find out how this would help engineering students. Dr Jacqueline Thomas, a humanitarian engineering lecturer at University of […]
5 Interesting Apps and Tools for Engineering Students
With the Escola Project in mind we’ve been researching apps and websites designed for engineering students. Instead of having to carry bulky books, engineering students can now take advantage of the multiple apps and tools available. We’ve taken a look at some of the apps and tools that might be of interest : Engineering Unit […]
Slow Adventure Tourism
One of the projects we are working on here in Momentum is The Adventure Tourism Innovation Partnerships (AVIP) so we’ve been busy researching adventure tourism. Living in Ireland we have so many adventure tourism providers and Val decided to check out a couple of Slow Adventures to see what they were like. The first adventure […]
Saving water through Frugal Innovation
Sometimes the simplest ideas turn out to be the best. One of the projects we are working on here at Momentum is Frugal Innovation. This is both a mind set and a series of techniques that enables entrepreneurs to innovate despite resource constraints. In simple terms Frugal Innovation helps people understand the need for innovation […]