JISC BCE and the New Engineering Foundation
Staff from the JISC Business and Community Engagement programme were pleased to be involved in the New Engineering Foundation Innovisions Conference held on 8th January 2010 in London. In addition to the programme being part of the exhibition at the event which included demonstrations of the recently launched Embedding BCE Online Resource, Simon Whittemore, JISC BCE Programme Manager, addressed delegates on the Impact of Secondments on Higher Level Skills.
The New Engineering Foundation is a grant-awarding charity that promotes the development of vocational education in science, engineering and technology and is a key stakeholder and partner within the BCE programme. They have recently produced a series of Golden Knowledge Bites. These are a series of videos commissioned by the JISC BCE Project Supporting Training, CPD and Staff Exchange for BCE to illustrate the value and importance of CPD (Continuing Professional Development) with a focus on secondments to build up knowledge and skills, and engender a culture of knowledge exchange.
This series of videos will be launched by the project and made available through the project website in Spring 2010.
Grant 13/09: BCE, e-Content and Digitisation programmes: Developing Community Content
As you have probably seen, JISC has frozen its current and future funding calls for ‘capital-funded’ projects but not ‘core-funded’ projects: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2010/01/funding.aspx
JISC Business and Community Engagement is a core-funded programme.
However, the current BCE and e-Content Call Developing Community Content draws its funds from both capital and core funding: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/12/1309bce.aspx
For those planning Strand I bids (Rapid user innovation), the call is still open and JISC will still be expecting proposals by 8th February.
For those planning Strand II bids (Co-development of content), the call is currently frozen. JISC is expecting the funding situation, for this and other calls, to become clearer by the end of January or the start of February. Applicants within affected strands are advised to put their proposals on ice for the moment, and await further information. There will be greater clarity at the start of February.
If you have further queries, please address them to funding@jisc.ac.uk.
JISC has also prepared some questions and answers.