Internet TV interview

Chris Blackmore was interviewed today by Ian Benson of UK Future TV, an internet TV company.

In order to disseminate the work on the CEP project, Chris spoke about various aspects of his work in eLearning and Psychotherapy, including the current new funding, the previous Leonardo project SEPTIMUS and the work of ECOTEC in overseeing Leonardo projects.

We will post up the link to the video once it has been made available to the public.

First virtual meeting

We held our first virtual meeting, in the SEPTIMUS chatroom, on Monday 29th September 2009. Present were Prof Digby Tantam and Chris Blackmore (University of Sheffield), Prof Emmy van Deurzen (Dilemma Consultancy in Human Relations ltd.) and Prof Mia Leijssen (University of Leuven). Our French partner, Prof Marc Auriacombe, was not able to join us on this occasion.

Leonardo Start-up seminar

On 18th September 2008, Chris Blackmore (Researcher for the University of Sheffield) attended the Leonardo "Start-up Seminar" at the Thinktank Conference Centre, Millennium Point, Birmingham.

Chris was accompanied by Steve Preston, a colleague from ScHARR, who will be helping with the financial administration of the CEP project from Sheffield.

The day was a very useful introduction to how best to oversee the Adminstrative and Financial aspects of a Leonardo project, how to monitor a project's activities and progress, and how to work with transnational partners. We were introduced to ADAM, the new project and product portal for Leonardo da Vinci.

Chris and Steve were also able to meet Helen Metcalfe, who is the ECOTEC project officer for the CEP project.

Success!

On 5th August 2008, we were notified here at the University of Sheffield by ECOTEC that we had been given funding for our project CEP- Continuing Education in Psychotherapy. The project is a collaboration between the following partners:

University of Sheffield (Co-ordinator)
Dilemma Consultancy in Human Relations ltd.
University of Leuven, Belgium
University of Bordeaux, France

The project is designed to extend the results of the previous project by porting the SEPTIMUS materials (online theoretical training for the continuing professional development of psychologists, medical practitioners, and counsellors) onto Moodle, an "open source" learning environment, providing them bilingually, and transferring our expertise in online tutorial support.

The Leonardo da Vinci programme is part of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme and aims to build a skilled workforce across Europe. This project comes under the title of "Transfer of Innovation".