Tanja Kalcic and the team at Prostor Plus prepare to host the second Aspire2create project meeting in Rijeka, Croatia on 12-13 May. 

Local project teams from Collage Arts, Rinova, RDP Senec-Pezinok, Materahub and Kau Academy will meet at Prostor's HQ to share and reflect on findings from the Trainers Masterclass in February. As well as planning next steps for the research sub-group, the teams will also look at project dissemination, marketing and communications. 

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Collage Arts hosted the first Euro-Aspire Validation Masterclass on 10-11 February at the Chocolate Factory, London, to recognize and validate practitioner-trainers in 4 countries with a view to apply the Euro-Aspire non-formal learning framework in Croatia, Estonia, Italy and Slovakia. Facilitated by Dr Denise Stanley, the group went through a series of presentations, discussions and roleplay to test the robustness of the model before reflecting on applying it in their own training environments.

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"After two days of Aspire2Create work, new partners have become colleagues working towards common goals and challenging and inspiring each other to co-create a clear, tailored and user-friendly tool." Dr Denise Stanley, Collage Arts

New Leonardo Lifelong Learning programme launched with 4 ECLN partners and 2 new partner organisations.  The project will develop, share and transfer innovative training models for trainers using non-formal learning in the cultural and creative industries.  Led by Collage Arts with Rinova, Prostor Plus, Kau Academy, Materahub and RDA Senec-Pezinok.

Aspire2create - a new Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation project - is taking the experience of the previous Euro-Aspire project and is testing it over the next two years with new partners in Slovakia (Regional Development Agency Senec-Pezinok), Italy (Materahub), Estonia (Kau Academy) and Croatia (Association Prostor Plus).

The new project's launch meeting in November 2013 was hosted by our Italian partner, Materahub, in Matera - one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, with a UNESCO World Heritage site at its centre.  Read more