EU Ministers from UK and France visit Aspire2

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…

Creative Industries business support in Greece

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…

Rising to the challenge in Enfield

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…

The Big Bang Conference – 11th September

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…

Talent Match North London – update

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…

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Apprenticeship Job Opportunity – Projects Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Projects Assistant Apprentice to join the growing team at Rinova. It is therefore ideal for a young person interested in working in the areas of employment, skills and learning, arts and culture, and social action and enterprise, as the role will bring you in contact with many types…

Transferable employability skills through the arts

Since October 2012 Rinova has been working with a group of partners from the UK, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Italy and the Netherlands to develop the Euro-ARCO Leonardo project, funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission. Since March this year, the Euro-Arco partners have been busy delivering their second phase of training pilots.  These pilots involve testing the…

Bridging the gap between employers and young people

One of the characteristics of the financial crisis that struck in 2008 has been the particular impact on young people and the labour market.  Whilst unemployment in general has increased internationally, these increases have been disproportionately high amongst young people – leading to talk of a ‘lost generation’. The reasons why this is happening to…

Promoting and Networking Cultural Learning in Europe

Over the last 18 months Rinova has been working with a network of organisations from eleven countries to develop the European Cultural Learning Network (ECLN). The ECLN project arises directly from the fact that, as a sector, ‘Cultural Learning’ is largely un-defined and un-mapped, and that professional or vocational educational pathways are equally ill-defined and unrecognised…