PACIFICSTREAM

INCKA – Leonardo LLL Development of Innovation Proposal

This project aims to create a dynamic and innovative software application that creative industries entrepreneurs and creators can use to identify the IP in their business, and teach them how to protect and exploit it.

IPR Awareness - Esmee Fairburn

Esmee Fairburn supports work that focuses on the UK’s cultural life, education, the natural environment and enabling people who are disadvantaged to participate more fully in society.

Awareness raising programme for start-up creative entrepreneurs to convince them of the value of their ideas and knowledge by using a graphic book approach and a training programme.

DONE – Leonardo LLL Transversal Programme

With The Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz, Poland

HR MultiPack - an On-line Multilingual Human Resources Training Package
Developing an On-line Multilingual Human Resources Training Package is intended
to be a training package for VET trainers or tutors as well as trainees at academic
level. The package will comprise five thematic modules each accompanied by a set
of cases illustrating SMEs’ organisational and cultural context in partner countries.
Additionally, there will be developed a multilingual glossary concentrating on LWULT
languages. The objective of the project is to upgrade vocational qualifications of
prospective employees in the field of human resources and provide trainers and
tutors with a training tool that can improve their professional technique spectrum.

NEXUS – FP7 Large-scale integrating project (IP) proposal ICT Call 3
FP7-ICT-2007-3

With the University of Stockholm, Sweden

Nexus- Technology Enhanced Supervision
The increasing numbers of students at universities do not match an equivalent increase of university funding and lecturing staff. Supervision is a time intensive and individual endeavor, based on private dialogues between supervisor and student. Time and funding allocated for supervision is not proportional to the actual time supervisors need to invest for each individual student.

The problem with decreasing funding and/time allocated to thesis supervision has far reaching consequences for thesis completion rates and in a long perspective even for quality deficient/problems. Feedback opportunities for students are too few for each student, which leads to problems for students in staying on track and completing their project within the allocated time frame. Another crucial problem for social exclusion regards students from non-academic backgrounds (or immigrants) needing more feedback than students from academic backgrounds. In a situation when a large number of students need qualified education part of this communication has to be provided in other qualitative ways than private unique dialogues.

The Nexus project aims to achieve mass-individualization for thesis supervision through technology enhanced learning in order to create economies of scale in thesis supervision, create a digital portal for digital scientific research content, increase European collaboration on thesis supervision, and remedy social exclusion.

The objective is to provide faculties and students with a self-adaptive and contextual sensitive ICT-based tool that enables mass-individualisation of thesis supervision on all levels of higher education. This will be achieved through merging the best of distance and campus education, creating a flexible educational tool useful in face-to-face supervision, mixed mode, or pure online supervision.

Leonardo – Partnership Project

With the Employment Agency of Galati, Romania

Best practices changes in the Adult Training Strategic Management and Structural Funds Project Management.

TEMPUS – Development of creative industries MA/MBA

With the Siberia Aerospace Academy, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Pioneering a MA in Creative Economy with the collaboration of three universities in Europe and three in Russia. Contributing to the MA course design and implementation.