6 tips for budding women entrepreneurs
Posted: August 15, 2014 Filed under: Grundtvig, Hints and tips, Social media, Transfer of Innovation | Tags: Business, Entrepreneur, Lifelong Learning Programme 1 Comment
Almost one year ago we published this post with some inspiring Lifelong Learning Programme projects which looked at the theme of entrepreneurship. With such relevance for the Erasmus+ programme we thought we would re-post one of our most successful articles – please comment and share your tips if you haven’t done so already! We hope you find these tips useful!
Forbes recently published a report stating that in 2012 alone 126 million women worldwide were starting or running new businesses and an estimated 98 million were developing established businesses.
But it’s not easy starting a new business, especially if you have a family, are over fifty or come from a disadvantaged background. That’s why a number of Lifelong Learning Programme funded projects have focused on supporting female entrepreneurs from all backgrounds to develop the necessary skills to become self-employed. These are just a few tips from our projects if you’re a woman interested in setting up your own business:
1. Learn from other women entrepreneurs
Whether you’re confident about setting up your own business or a little hesitant, talking to other women entrepreneurs who can share their successes and challenges with you can help you learn from best practice and better understand the pitfalls of business.
Fe:male was a Grundtvig funded project that helped women across Europe connect in groups in order to mentor each other in business. Their website provides a wealth of resources and contacts if you’re interested in learning from other women entrepreneurs:
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Why you shouldn’t miss our new project support pages…
Posted: August 7, 2014 Filed under: Erasmus+, Hints and tips | Tags: branding, Erasmus+, Key Action 1, mobility, project support Leave a comment
New project support section on the Erasmus+ website
We’ve launched a new project support area on our website designed to help you through every stage of running your Erasmus+ project.
It contains information for both Key Action 1 Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education projects as well as information for all other fields. We will be adding more information about starting your Key Action 2 projects later in the year.
Next steps
It’s never too early to start planning your project. We will be adding to these pages with all the details about our Start-up seminars, project handbooks, webinars and other activities to help you through the key reporting stages of your project.
How can I promote my project? Keeping on brand
On our other project support page you will find details of how you can use the European Commission’s Erasmus+ logos on your flyers, project outputs and other promotional materials for your Erasmus+ project.
New Erasmus+ Newsletter
Posted: May 23, 2014 Filed under: Erasmus+, Grundtvig, Leonardo, Transversal | Tags: Erasmus+, grundtvig, leonardo, newsletter, transversal Leave a commentWe are excited to announce the launch of our new monthly Erasmus+ e-newsletter! Read on to find out how to get all the latest programme news, event sneak-peaks, inspiring project stories and much, much more directly to your inbox…
Read all about it!
After the brief warm spell last weekend there’s no doubt we’re well into the new year, and the new programme. So for all the latest information about the integrated Erasmus+ programme we’d like you to stay in touch with us by signing up. You can even receive news alerts specific to your sector if you opt to receive project information for a particular field.
Don’t worry – we’ll still be letting you know all the relevant news for your Lifelong Learning Programme projects. But it was an emotional time in the comms team this week as we sent the final Leonardo, Grundtvig and Transversal e-flash.
So, to continue to receive Erasmus+ and LLP news you will need to sign up to our new newsletter to ensure you receive communications from us!
A collection of future focused LLP case studies from across the UK
Posted: February 13, 2014 Filed under: Erasmus+, Grundtvig, Leonardo, Transversal | Tags: apprentices, employability, Erasmus+, grundtvig, Study Visit Leave a commentWith application deadlines for the new programme fast approaching, why not take a look at our collection of future focused Leonardo, Grundtvig and Transversal case studies to help you understand how your current projects could be transferred into Erasmus+.
Building for Erasmus+
Helping you to build your future in Erasmus+
Last year we produced ‘Building for Erasmus+’ a case study publication which explores how current practice can be transferred into the new programme and features real experiences and outcomes from organisations who have taken part in the Lifelong Learning Programme.
You can read how the LLP has made a difference to organisations and their participants across a range of themes; from enhancing skills and employability, tackling youth unemployment, apprenticeships, partnership building and lobbying for policy change among many others.We hope the experiences you explore here will inspire you to build your future in Erasmus+.
Download Building for Erasmus+
Policy in practice: What I learned from my study visit
Posted: October 11, 2013 Filed under: Transversal | Tags: CPD, leadership, management, training, transversal, Transversal Study Visit Leave a commentOctober is a busy month in the academic calendar, particularly for our Transversal Study Visit participants. Last month you may have seen our blog from Charlotte Govan, Policy Advisor from the Department for Education, as she prepared for her Visit to Tîrgu Mureş to look at innovative approaches to managing educational institutions. Now she’s back from Romania and keen to share what she learnt and explain how other participants can benefit from Transversal Study Visits…
Charlotte Govan
Charlotte works on the Academies programme and before the visit, her main aim was to gain a wider knowledge of the education systems of countries across Europe, learning directly from the people who work within those systems as this is linked to her current project to look at the future schools system of the UK. This particular visit looked at some of the key themes of the Transversal programme. These include supporting initial and continuous training of teachers and leadership and management in schools and training institutions. But what did the group learn? Charlotte and her fellow participants focused on:
1. the Romanian educational system and school management
2. tools to improve management in education
3. innovative approaches to developing leadership
4. ways of achieving performance in educational management and quality assurance
It’s never too late to learn a language…
Posted: September 26, 2013 Filed under: Grundtvig, Leonardo, Lifelong Learning Programme, Transversal | Tags: European Day of Languages, European Language Label 2 CommentsWelcome, Bienvenue, Bienvenidos, Willkommen, Benvenuto, Sveiki atvykę!
European Day of Languages 2013
Today is the European Day of Languages, a time to celebrate languages and language learning across Europe.
It is also the 2013 European Language Label Awards ceremony in London celebrating innovative languages teaching and learning practices across the UK.
There are now 24 official and working languages of the European Union, but across Europe there are more than 300 languages spoken as a native language. Europe has become increasingly multilingual and the need for us as European Citizens to speak more than one language has never been so vital. It is true that English has become a global language and so, as a native English speaker, you may think that it’s not worth learning another language. Whilst you may be understood in English, making the effort to speak to someone in their mother tongue is always more appreciated. For, as a great man once said:
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” Nelson Mandela
Read the latest edition of edUKation
Posted: September 13, 2013 Filed under: Erasmus+, Grundtvig, Leonardo, Lifelong Learning Programme, Mobility, Thematic Networking, Transversal 1 CommentThe latest edition of edUKation is now available to download. edUKation is our quarterly newsletter containing updates from the Leonardo, Grundtvig and Transversal programmes.
In this edition
In issue 22 you can read about how Leonardo Mobility participant Raymond Fisher secures his dream job as a chef in France. You can also find out the latest information on Erasmus+, the new education, training, youth and sport programme, as well as the following articles:
- Making the future possible conference
- Diary of study visit participants
- Celebrating Thematic Networking
Download issue 22 of edUKation
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Previous editions
You can find previous editions of edUKation in our resource centre.
Thank you to our 1,000 followers!
Posted: September 4, 2013 Filed under: Grundtvig, Leonardo, Social media, Transversal | Tags: Lifelong Learning Programme, social media, tweet Leave a commentQ: What does the distance in miles from Bristol to Barcelona, the presumed number of legs on a millipede, and the LLP twitter account all have in common?
A: They all come to 1,000!
Since we launched our Twitter account we have sent over 1,900 tweets, been mentioned over 800 times and are proud to announce we now have over 1,000 followers!
We would like to thank all of our projects and promoters who have shared their successes with us through social media. Every day we enjoy seeing your photos, watching your videos and hearing your project news.
We have already had lots to celebrate online as the #EUjourney hashtag from our Making the future possible event where we invited organisations from across the LLP and Youth in Action programmes to celebrate, contribute and continue their learning journey with us was used 224 times. You can see more thoughts from the day in our event Storify.
We hope you will continue to share your successes with us via Twitter and Facebook and also comment on our blog.
So, if you haven’t already done so, follow us on Twitter @llpUKecorys to keep up-to-date with with the latest LLP videos, photos and deadlines as well as information on the new Erasmus+ programme.
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