Check out some of the images from the partners meeting at Filodramatica in Rijeka, Croatia (12-13 May 2014) hosted by Prostor Plus and attended by Collage Arts, Rinova, Materahub, Kau Academy and RDA Senec-Pezinok.  

It was a great opportunity for all partners to share practice and gain updated information about the research, discuss findings from the first Master-class (London, February 2014) and to go through the dissemination strategy/plans on project promotion.  We also managed to visit the derelict Paper Mill where Prostor Plus have been given a space to inhabit with artists and cultural activities and met with key local activists and politicians involved in managing the site. 

The next step is that each individual partner will prepare for their assessment visits over June to September taking place with Denise Stanley, Keith Gilles, Enzo Pellegrini and David Garcia. The Collage Arts team are compiling a video to assist partners to prepare their Proficient (Level 7) trainers for these visits.

The next partner management meeting and second Master-class has been confirmed as Wednesday 12th to Friday 14th November in London. This has been timed to coincide with the Chocolate Factory N22 Open Studios 2014 at Collage Arts in Wood Green.   

Cooking in #Italian - Day 1 - young Londoners and apprentices in Rome on Euro-Mobility project facilitated by Collage Arts, Mulab and Rinova Ltd #creativityatwork

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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This Months MARIE CLAIRE features the biggest public art project since the GATES..... with our Academy Director taking lead.... THE WATER TANK PROJECT   

#icudBCN 13-14 March 2014 - International conference on Digital Discrimination and Social Networks 

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.

andrea.paoletti: Just finished @Aspire2createEU cool process to create the right framework to validate #nonformal #learning #london pic.twitter.com/idRgZnIp8Z

"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