ARIVE meeting in London

Rinova recently hosted a 2-day meeting with partners from UK, Sweden, Italy, and Greece to review the progress of the ARIVE (Accepted, Resettled, Integrated, Value and Employed) project.  The ARIVE project is funded by Erasmus + and aims to develop quality learning opportunities to encourage low-qualified and low-skilled humanitarian migrants to assess and upskill their…

Bridging the Gap with Rinova in Malaga

Representatives from Rinova joined partners from Spain, Italy, Greece, Poland and Slovakia for a 2-day event  last week to launch our new 3-year initiative ‘Bridging the Gap’ at Polo Digital in Malaga, Spain. Rinova has had a base in Malaga at Polo Digital since July 2017, where we are offering internationalisation advice and business support to digital content start-ups. Polo Digital…

Certificating the profession of the Job Broker

We were delighted to recently host the launch of a new two-year Erasmus+ Key Action 3 project, ‘Certification and Qualification of Europe’s Job Brokers (CQJB)’. Earlier in 2018 we responded to a call from the EACEA of the European Commission, which invited proposals for the development of new joint European qualifications as part of its…

A commitment to quality in vocational education

Capturing and sharing good practice from the activities that we are involved in is at the heart of what Rinova does. Using approaches that explore the social return on investment, having a focus on impact evaluation and promoting case studies are all part of this. So when we get the chance to do this to support innovation across Europe in lifelong learning,…

Securing Futures with Prospects – for employers and employees

Over the past eighteen months, we have been working closely with Prospects to deliver two major Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) programmes to support in-work progression for employees and employers in North East and Central London. These programmes are aimed at those in low-paid roles, often lacking any specific professional training, that find themselves in part-time or…

Big Bang starts with a Bang!

On November 28th and 29th Rinova and its consortium partner 15billion hosted the first meeting of the new ‘Big Bang’ partnership at the Atlee Foundation in Tower Hamlets, with partners from the Netherlands, Iceland, Spain and Austria. The partnership was formed to explore issues concerned with the ‘culture clash’ between work, school and negative peer group dynamics between young…