Lola was in Berlin recently to meet up with the Empowering Circular Creative Entrepreneurs team. Empowering Creative Circular Entrepreneurs aims to upskill creatives and aspiring creatives AND those who train them (VET educators) to embrace circular economic principles as a...
The ACORN project aims to engage, empower, and inspire young people in rural areas to become active citizens, co-creators, and implementers of rural development initiatives. The ACORN – Activating Young Rural Development project partners went to Malta for a learning...
The We Lead Project recently held a Transnational Partner Meeting in Iceland, Paula is our project manager for We Lead and she brings her enthusiasm and expertise to the project. The meeting was hosted by UNAK the University of Akureyri...
We are delighted to announce the publication of The European Skills Panorama, as part of the Be21 Skilled Project. This report aims at demarcating the current state of affairs with respect to the 21st century skills needs, challenges and opportunities, as...
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Experiential Entrepreneurship Labs, an Erasmus+ project dedicated to empowering young people and addressing the issue of youth unemployment. But, not just ‘another’ programme, we will go beyond theoretical knowledge and provide hands-on experiences...
Some of the Ethical Food Entrepreneurship project partners met in Ireland recently and they got the chance to discuss the development of the project and the publication of the first set of resources. The collection of Good Practice case studies...
It was a pleasure to host the InDo (Understanding by Design and Differentiated Instruction) Project Hybrid Meeting in our Leitrim office recently. The COVID-19 global outbreak resulted in a sudden transformation of classrooms from their usual face-to-face setting to their digital form (e-classroom). This drastic shift and the now mainstreaming
The BE-21-SKILLED first transnational partner meeting took place in the beautiful city of Riga, Latvia, earlier this year. BE-21-SKILLED stands for Building an Ecosystem for 21st Century Skills Education in STEM. The project aims to identify and instill region-specific 21st-century skills (21CS) in HEI STEM teachers so that they are
Laurence has been in Brussels for the final meeting of the Digital Balance Project. This was a hybrid meeting, with some of the partners attending virtually, and was hosted by our project partners EfVET. We have really enjoyed working on Digital Balance and we will miss our hardworking project partners.
Last week was bittersweet as we got to meet our wonderful project partners for the last meeting of Insites to Digital Cultural Heritage. The project aims to reimagine how we create, protect and consume digital cultural heritage. It aims to upskill those cultural heritage custodians, VET providers and business mentors
Samantha is in Malaga for the transnational partner meeting of the SME Cluster Growth Project. The team have had a very successful get together and the project partners reviewed almost 2 years of collaboration between engineering SMEs & HEIs. It’s such a wonderful change to meet in person, after so
Introducing the Inclusion through Mediation course. The course has been carefully developed to optimise your online learning on mediation and how it can assist in the community inclusion. Work your way through our short, bite-sized learning sections, review the module before you begin and gain a deeper understanding of the
The 4th Transnational Partner Meeting of the INDEED Project was held in Malaga, Spain, last month. This was a hybrid meeting to facilitate the project partners who couldn’t attend in person. The Innovative Digital Pedagogies for Entrepreneurship Educators (INDEED) Project – Helping Entrepreneurship Educators to embrace inclusive digital pedagogy and
We recently organised an event to publicly showcase the outputs of the PIFS project and increase the visibility and uptake of the project outputs amongst the most relevant stakeholder organisations. The event took place at the new BIA Innovator Campus, Athenry, Co. Galway, and one of the main focuses was the FUTURE
We were delighted to host the second transnational project partner meeting, of the Housing Care Project, in our office in Leitrim Village last month. Through this project, our aim is to empower Care workers of the seniors in our communities, with the skills and digital/ technological knowledge to work
We were delighted to be able to meet in person recently with the partners for the Sustainable Smallholders Project recently. The meeting took place in the beautiful city of Nitra, Slovakia. We’d like to say a huge thanks to our wonderful host Prof Zuzana. It was a bittersweet meeting, as
We are delighted to let you know that the Creative Communities First (CCF) Project now has a podcast section on the website. We put a call out for people to take part, and we have some wonderful guests. The podcast will provide inspiration for teachers, educators, students and anyone interested
Lola was in Brussels recently for the Day One in Europe transnational meeting. Th project partners attended the 7th European Migration Forum, which was very interesting and so relevant to the work we are doing. Our project partners, Le Laba brought very special guest from Bordeaux : the band MIKSI.