Partners
Tribal Education (beneficiary and coordinator)
Company profile
Tribal Education is part of a larger organisation called the Tribal Group plc, which consists of over 40 offices specialising in the education and health sector. Tribal is the leading private sector organisation in the UK that services public sector bodies.
The role of Tribal Education in the project is that of Project coordinator. Tribal's key role is:
- project management and coordination
- adaptation and customisation in preparation of the market testing/piloting
- active participation in the market testing phase
- development of the business plan working in close collaboration with the consortium partners and potential investors
- key partner in all other work packages led by other partners.
Role of BLOOM in the operation of Tribal Education
BLOOM fits into the key Tribal Education business strategies of expanding the business into Europe, gaining more of an insight and access into the needs of specific work sectors across Europe, especially in the areas of lifelong learning, basic skills and social inclusion. This eTEN project fits into Tribal overseas strategy, with a view to offering innovative e-learning and m-learning services, which are already successful in the UK, to the European market.
Bango (beneficiary)
Company profile
Bango has helped a variety of content providers engage with millions of users through their mobile phones. Bango is able to make access to content easy and rapidly identify users - making personalisation possible - and has the ability to collect micro-payments from a wide range of mobile users worldwide.
Bango is a Partner in the project. Bango's key role is:
- contributing to the market needs analysis, business planning and dissemination work packages
- providing an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the mobile networks landscape in Europe and transferring this knowledge to the rest of the consortium
- to analyse and report on the current mobile service provider context the three partner member states, including their 'market readiness'
- identifying and approaching potential investors
- approaching the large European mobile network providers in order to disseminate BLOOM achievements across several mobile phone company networks in order to facilitate quicker and more effective service deployment of BLOOM.
Role of BLOOM in the operation of Bango
Bango's business is based on the commercialisation of mobile phone technology. The needs of a specific work sector (passenger transport and logistics) represent a new area for their business, in which they can consolidate and build on their experience of education and training. The project falls in line with their objectives of market-specific partnerships and of involvement in projects destined for deployment.
BEST (beneficiary)
Company profile
BEST Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH was founded in 1987 as an independent vocational qualification institute. Its main activities comprise adult education, vocational qualification, guidance of unemployed people and training of key qualifications for re-integration into the labour market. The institute offers training facilities for up to 4500 students per year. The training methods for different target groups include own pedagogic and didactic methods, especially for integration and motivation, and are constantly being updated. As one of the first training institutes in
BEST is a Partner in the project. BEST-Training's key role is:
- lead the market testing/piloting - work package 4
- contribute to the research on customisation, linguistic and cultural adaptation
- participate in the dissemination work package, leading the dissemination in the Austrian-German markets, working closely with CWU, who is leading the dissemination work package
- deliver access to end users and employers in the passenger transport sector.
Role of BLOOM in the operation of BEST-Training
It has long been part of BEST-Training's business strategy to add value to their training delivery by offering alternative and innovative methods of learning, by using e-learning or m-learning methods as part of their blended learning approach. This will help them to recruit more trainees who are unable to attend training full time and in a fixed location. The flexibility and accessibility BLOOM offers is therefore an attractive business opportunity for BEST. BLOOM also offers BEST the chance to expand their business beyond Austria and Germany, where they are already well established.
Communication Workers Union (beneficiary)
Company profile
The Communications Workers Union represents 260,000 members in the telecommunications sector. Its members are employed in 37 companies, including industry leaders such as NTL, Fujitzu and Sky Digital. The largest concentrations of members are employed by BT and Royal Mail Parcel Force. The union's education and training department has 37 learning centres across the UK, more than any other UK union. These centres work with a variety of education providers and offer training and skills development encompassing adult basic education, Skills for Life and opportunities for CPD and lifelong learning.
CWU is a Partner in the project. CWU's key role is:
- lead partner of work package 6
- ensuring that the aims and objective of the dissemination plan are fully implemented
- piloting and evaluating the product with low-skilled employees working in the communications sector
- contributing to identifying and analysing the needs of learning providers and learning support agencies, employers and end users in the communications sector
- contributing to the development of a fully validated business plan for pan-European commercialisation.
Role of BLOOM in the operation of CWU
CWU is committed to improving the skills of its low-paid members. It has already taken part in a national ESF project aimed at using e-learning to improve the skills of its members. This experience informed the strategic decision to further invest in e- and m-learning as a means of improving the skills and hence the employment prospects of its members. BLOOM makes a timely and significant contribution to this strategic aim.
Go Skills (beneficiary - public sector)
Company profile
GoSkills is the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for Passenger Transport. Operating throughout the UK, it's an employer-led organisation that assists employers and operators in improving business performance through people and skills. GoSkills covers aviation, bus and coach, rail, taxi and private hire, community transport, driver training and transport planning.
Role of BLOOM in the operation of Go Skills
A successful passenger transport sector is vital to economic and social wellbeing in the UK. Its importance in transporting people in order to meet the needs of the wider economy is immense. To achieve this, the workforce must be well trained and possess the relevant skills to meet the demands of a modern economy. As well as adapting to technological changes, there are higher standards in customer service to be met and more integrated operational arrangements with implications for skills - basic skills in particular - posing a huge challenge for Go Skills. Go Skills is committed to a challenging skills development agenda that will transform the industry from a low-skilled to a highly skilled workforce. BLOOM forms part of Go Skills' strategy to tackle the basic skills problem in the passenger transport sector.
Go Skills is a Partner in the project. Go Skills's key role is:
- as lead partner for market needs analysis - work package 2
- ensuring that the market needs of the passenger transport are accurately and extensively identified across the EU
- contribute to the customisation and linguistic, cultural and pedagogical adaptation - work package 3
- accessing and supporting passenger transport companies involvement in BLOOM
- ensuring that BLOOM is directly relevant and focused on the actual passenger transport sector training needs
- dissemination to employers in the passenger transport sector, support agencies and policy-makers.
Berufsbildungswerk der Spedition in Hessen e.V. (beneficiary)
Company profile
Approximately 90% of all forwarding business and logistics enterprises in Hessen and Rhineland-Palatinate are supported by the forwarding business and logistic unit provided by the BLOOM partner Hessen/Rhineland-Palatinate e.V. (BSH). Together with the other regional organisations and the Federal Association of Forwarding Business and Logistics, BSH represents the interests of the forwarding business and logistics industry in this region of Germany. BSH's core mission is to preserve and promote the needs and resources of its members. It consists of approximately 430 enterprises with 25,000 employees.
BSH is a Partner in the project. BSH's key role is:
- market needs analysis related to the needs of German passenger transport companies (work package 2) in partnership with IVT
- customisation and adaptation of the product to meet the needs of its members
- contributing to the market needs analysis (work package 2)
- cross-linking with companies in the passenger transport industry with whom the product will be piloted (work package 4)
- dissemination and attracting investment through BSH's large number of clients and its connections with national and international passenger transport companies and associations.
Role of BLOOM in the operation of BSH
BSH is committed to serving the interests of its members in the logistics sector and to the related passenger transport sector. Working closely with IVT Institut fr angewandte Verkehrs- und Tourismusforschung e.V. (IVT) they are hoping to promote the adoption of state-of-the-art mobile technology for their own members so that they can increase the industry's capacity to train and develop its workers, and thus fulfil its core mission. BLOOM provides a wonderful opportunity for BSH to take advantage of the opportunity to develop and trial customised mobile learning and promote its deployment for the benefit of its members following the completion of the deployment phase of BLOOM.
