A few things we’ve heard about recently…

We love hearing about your projects and like to share your news and events through our websites, through Twitter, our blog and our YouTube channel.

Here are just a few of the things that we have heard about in the last month:

Starting up

After hearing about successful applications for funding, via Twitter, in May we are now hearing about the start of these projects:

thanks to @llpukecorys for seminar yesterday. Picked up some useful tips for managing our Leonardo project and met some interesting people

— David Maxwell (@DavidMaxwell3) September 12, 2012

Fantastic #Leonardo start up event yesterday! Looking forward to this project taking off! Thank you @llpukecorys

— NetworkConsortium (@NConsortium) September 12, 2012

Completing first international meeting of Seeds for the Future project, Latvia – great organisation, great welcome @llpukecorys @hagengraf

— shan j ashton (@shanjash) September 12, 2012

It is very exciting to hear about the start of projects and we look forward to hearing more updates along the way. Keep us up to date with your journey on Twitter by tweeting @llpUKecorys.

ECVET Experts

This project aims to demystify the topic and explain the benefits of recognising learners’ achievements gained abroad to learners, colleges and other organisations. It is producing jargon-free, user-friendly guidance materials to help organisations understand how ECVET can be used in a UK context.

Find out more: www.ecvetexperts.org.uk

Interactive Technologies and Games Conference

There are a few projects that we fund that use games to interact with their audience. One of those projects, PAUSE, a Leonardo Transfer of Innovation will be disseminating their experiences at this conference. Bringing together academics and practitioners who work with interactive technologies in the areas of Education, Health and Disability this conference is the chance to showcase practice and start to mainstream research ideas and outcomes.

Find out more: www.itag.gamecity.org

Creative Volunteering

The Workers’ Educational Association Northern Ireland have added a video of their participant’s experience to YouTube. The video features a group of Senior Volunteers talking about their mobility to Sicily. Well worth a watch and a listen as the Senior Volunters take you through their stories and the impact this experience has had for them:

Why not find out more about running your own Senior Volunteering project: www.grundtvig.org.uk/seniorvolunteering

And finally…

Research suggests that middle age starts at 55 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19622330. As it is the European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations, it is interesting to find out that as the population in Europe ages, the start of middle age also increases, it suggests a definite move towards active ageing.

Do you have any project news, outcomes or success stories you’d like to share? Why not tweet @llpUKecorys and send us your latest video, blog post or event?