Research shows that Vocational Education and Training fails to fully engage migrants. In addition to lower participation rates, attainment is weaker and dropout rates higher compared to those who are indigenous. Our AIM projects tackles this disadvantage head-on by building capacity within VET institutions through up-skilling staff to better meet
This project enables small tourism enterprises to harness the potential of Cultural Heritage Tourism to successfully grow their business. Tourism SMEs will benefit from learning innovative strategies to develop their operation in order to compete on a global level. ROOTS will create innovative training materials to assist Tourism SMEs to
WISE has been developed with a clear goal: increase the number of female entrepreneurs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) by transforming their access to and the quality of the training they receive from entrepreneurship VET institutions. In recent years we have seen strong media coverage of tech enterprises
Conceived in 2015, Taste Leitrim is an ongoing initative from Leitrim County Council designed to put Leitrim on the Food Tourism Map of Ireland. The initiative initially brought together a multi disciplined team to include videography, food styling, branding, digital marketing and tourism route specialists. Momentum were brought on board
In recent years, VET colleges have shown impressive progress in developing entrepreneurship programmes in their schools. More and more colleges have such a programme in place. And on top of that, the quality of the programmes is increasing. More and more entrepreneurship programmes are involving, competence based and aimed at
Frugal Innovation – which we define as low tech and sustainable innovation – is a highly relevant skill for today’s Europe in the sense that it is well suited to both sustainability and financial austerity. With frugal innovation, products and services are designed to provide better value for money for
We’ve been working on the Innovating Digitally Project, the project will help you gain a better understanding of how small service companies currently undertake new product development so that you can improve how innovation in services is taught. Our Digital Innovation Whitepaper provides an overview of the mapping of a
If you are a woman working in transport or logistics, or if it’s a sector you’d like to get involved in, we have a fantastic online event taking place on March 30th. The WIL Power Network event gives you the opportunity to hear from other women in the sector and
Are you an academic teacher specialising in economics/management? We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on Blockchain technology. Its aim is to identify the level of knowledge, competencies and opinions of academic economic environments related to Blockchain and its implementation in the curriculum for students of