25 trainers, managers and advisers from Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Estonia and the UK came together recently over three days of meetings and workshops for aspire2create. The aspire2create project is transferring and testing Euro-Aspire, a Competency Framework and Toolkit for trainers working in the non-formal learning sector in the creative industries and arts sectors. The event…
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual with all-round project management and development skills to join our growing staff team at Rinova. The Project Manager will contribute to the development and implementation of a range of projects at Rinova, both in the UK and the European Union. Supporting the senior staff team, duties will…
The Third Partnership meeting of the ARES partnership took place on October 2nd and 3rd in Estonia. Through the ARES project, partners seek to demonstate that education using artistic and cultural media facilitates learning and demonstrates how it benefits LGBT communities; through increased awareness, encouraging dialogue and open discussion and identifying positive models. This meeting…
On September 24th and 25th the final meeting of the Euro Arco project took place in Rome, hosted by Italian partner Mulab. The Euro-Arco Transfer of Innovation Project aims to transfer and adapt innovative vocational practice in the teaching of transferable skills for employment. Euro-arco is a partnership collaboration involving organisations in the UK (WAC Arts and Rinova), Spain, Italy,…
There was barely a spare seat at the final conference of the Big Bang project, which was held at the Osmani Centre in Whitechapel, London, on the 11th September. More than 80 delegates, representing local authorities, Further Education Colleges, vocational training providers, youth organisations, information and advice workers, community organisations, employers and agencies such as the British Council attended the conference which…
A high-level delegation from the UK and French governments visited Collage Arts and Rinova on the 11th September at the Chocolate Factory in Wood Green, North London to discuss matters of interest to the European Union. The delegation consisted of the Minister for Europe at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Rt Hon David Lidington…
Rinova, in association with Collage Arts, has been supporting DIMITRA Institute of Training and Development with two local development projects in Greece, concerned with the development of cultural and creative industries business start-ups and the creation of new social enterprises. Originally inspired by the Chocolate Factory concept and model that is operated by Collage Arts in Haringey, North London in…
Some eighteen months ago we were able to announce the approval of the ERA project led by Enterprise Enfield with project partners Enterprise Enfield, Gingerbread, Barnet and Southgate College and Rinova. Since then we have been busy delivering the project, which has seen an on-going increase in demand for its services. ERA (Enfield Rises and Achieves) is designed to enable residents from…
Registration is now open for the conference ‘Bridging the Culture Clash between Employers, Young People and Local Cultures’ on the 11th September at the Osmani Centre in Whitechapel, London, which is free and open to anyone (subject to numbers) with an interest in this area. The conference is the final event of ‘Big Bang’, an international project funded by the European…
In recent weeks the Talent Match North London partnership, led by Collage Arts with Rinova, Enterprise Enfield, KORI and Metropolitan has been designing, testing and shaping our programme of delivery. We’ve also been working with Collage Arts to recruit the young people who have formed the initial North London Youth Board, which incudes Mahmut Gozuag of…
