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BLOOM News (May 2008)

The first issue of the BLOOM Newsletter is out! Please follow the link to read about our recent activity, achievements and plans.

eTEN Newsletter Quarter 2 - 2008 is out

eTEN quarterly newsletter is published in order to provide support for the ongoing projects funded under the former eTEN programme.To read the newsletter please follow this link

The CWU education team find out about BLOOM (19 February 2008) 

At the last quarterly team meeting of the CWU regional education team held in York on 19th February 2008 Nargis Walker (BLOOM Project Director) and Kseniia Titova (BLOOM Project Assistant) introduced the team to the concept of m-learning and briefed them on the BLOOM project. There was also an opportunity for the life-long learning project team to practice using the PDA’s (Personal digital assistants) and try out some of the learning software.

The 12 members of the CWU project team cover every region of the UK. Their role is to identify and offer learning opportunities to the members of the CWU through their union learning representatives.

Trish Lavelle, CWU Head of Education and Training, said “I believe that BLOOM is an exciting new project that has the potential to offer a different style of learning to our members when they are on the move and may offer a new way to learn using a blended approach”.

To view photos from the meeting please follow the links:

First BLOOM partnership meeting (22-23 January 2008)

An inaugural BLOOM meeting was held over 22nd and 23rd January in Vienna, Austria and was attended by all the partners. A structure and timetable for the project was formulated in an atmosphere of commitment and cooperation. The eighteen month project period will be packed with a dense round of customisation, training the trainers, intensive research and documentation. Regular news updates will be provided as the project moves forward.

BLOOM start-up meeting (1 October 2007) 

After a long negotiation process, the BLOOM start-up meeting was held in Brussels on the 1st of October 2007 and hosted by Tribal Education. The meeting was followed by a two day mandatory workshop for all partners with the European Projects Team. The focus of the meeting was on all matters relating to the Financial and delivery methodology to be used during the lifetime of the project.