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The Final Transnational Meeting of Green Skills Project
Reposted from http://www.greenskills.ceipes.org/2019/06/13/777/ On the 11th June the 4thTransnational meeting of the Green Skills at Vocational Education project (Project number – 2017-1-TR01-KA202-046803) took place in Cluj, Romania. This time, the Institutul Postliceal Phoenix Asociatie hosted us. The project is carried out by 5 partners: CEIPES – International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development (Italy), CETEM – Technological Research Centre of Wood and Furniture of Murcia Region (Spain), LDT – Landward research (UK), Institutul Postliceal Phoenix Asociatie (Romania) and Adana Provincial Directorate of Labour and Work Agency (Turkey), and it is funded by the European Commission within Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2 (Strategic Partnership for Innovation and Exchange of…
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CEO of FAME
Kenneth Aitchison has been appointed as CEO of FAME, the Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers. He formally takes up this appointment at the FAME AGM on 20th June 2019. FAME announced the appointment: “The Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers is very pleased to announce the appointment of its new CEO, Dr Kenneth Aitchison, who takes up the post from the beginning of May 2019. Kenneth is a founder and director of Landward Research Ltd and has been actively involved in high level engagement with UK and European governmental, political and national agencies, representing the archaeological profession and commercial archaeological practice. A graduate of Edinburgh and Sheffield Universities, over…
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Chief Executive for Landward Research Teoranta
Landward Research Teoranta (Landward Research Ltd’s wholly owned subsidiary in Ireland) are delighted to announce that Mark Spanjer has been appointed as the company’s Chief Executive. He will lead on growth and development in the European market. www.landward.ie
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Green Skills Newsletter
The latest newsletter of the Green Skills at Vocational Education project has been published. with information about progress to date and plans for the remainder of the project.
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Carbon Neutral in 2019
Landward Resarch Ltd are proud to be carbon neutral. In 2018-19, we reduced our carbon footprint by 12% and funded Community Projects and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects that have generated Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) to offset the carbon dioxide our activities generated.
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Listen to me! Lobbying for archaeology
An article by Kenneth Aitchison, updating a paper given at the EAA 2018 conference in Barcelona, has been published as an ‘early view’ in Archäologische Informationen. Read the article here https://dguf.de/fileadmin/AI/ArchInf-EV_Aitchison.pdf
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Archaeological Market Survey 2017-18
The Archaeological Market Survey for 2017-18 has been published and is available for download: Archaeological Market Survey 2017-18. This report has been produced by Landward Research Ltd on behalf of FAME, CIfA and Historic England. Key Results of the Survey Record levels of commercial investment and employment for archaeologists in the UK. The numbers of people employed as professional archaeologists, both in applied commercial archaeology and across the entire archaeological sector in the UK, were higher 2017-18 than they had ever been before. £239m was invested in the economy through applied archaeology in 2017-18 Despite the sector’s wariness about the future of the market (a major factor in which appears…
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Landward project commended by European Commission
The ‘Innovative format of education and training of the integrated archaeological and natural heritage’ (ANHER) project has been commended by the European Commission for being an example of a best practice Erasmus+ project. A summary has been included in the new publication, Erasmus+ Enriching our Cultural Heritage.
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London address
Landward Research Ltd has moved to a new London business address. Landward Research Ltd, Kemp House, 152-160 City Rd, London EC1V 2NX
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Report on Green Skills survey of 1,750 participants published
The second report for the Green Skills at Vocational Education and Training project published today by Landward Research is a Quantitative analysis of the perception of green skills by VET trainers, VET students, and employers. This is the detailed analysis of over 1,750 questionnaire responses, completed by educators, learners and employers in five countries – UK, Spain, Italy, Romania and Turkey – on their experiences of, and attitudes to, vocational education and training for construction workers and electricians. Written by Ben Lewis, Niloufar Javadi Abhari and Anjumon Ali, the report finds: In terms of the four green skills working areas defined by the project and questionnaire, 68% of educators agreed that green…
