Business & Community Engagement Collaboration
‘The Trialling Collaborative Online Tools for BCE’ project will identify effective practice in the use of online tools across further education colleges and higher education institutions to improve collaborative ventures with external partners. Working with eight institutions the project aims to assess the use of technology across a range of institutional contexts and synthesise lessons learned for the benefit of the sector as a whole. Project Manager: Jacquie Kelly Email: jacquie.kelly@northumbria.ac.uk W: http://collaborativetools4bce.jiscinvolve.org
Staff The ‘Training, CPD & Staff Exchange for BCE’ project will determine the support and enhancement needs of existing BCE training provision and the needs of target BCE practitioners. It aims to deliver: training support in the use of technology and online tools for BCE; BCE Leadership, advocacy and staff exchange activities between BCE practitioners and information management, libraries and IT staff; Training enhancements which support the process and system needs of collaborative (cross-institutional) service provision. Project Manager: Helen Blanchett Email: helen.blanchett@newcastle.ac.uk Website: http://bcecpd.jiscinvolve.org
Awareness
Effective business and community engagement directly enhances research and teaching, improves reputation, extends profile and impact, and delivers revenue and non-financial benefits. ‘The Awareness & Education of BCE’ project aims to raise awareness of the opportunities afforded by BCE engaging not only the direct practitioners but the staff that support and enable them to carry out their activities. JISC, through its Advance Services, has an important role to play in this process.
Empowerment This project will provide further and higher education institutions with a comprehensive best practice guide to resource technologies that enable and support SME engagement. It will include a web based diagnostic and signposting application, together with brokerage models and regional and international examples of good practice.
Project Manager: Chris Young Email: chris.young@newcastle.ac.uk Website: http://bceawareness.jiscinvolve.org
Project Manager: Punam Khosla Email: punam@techdis.ac.uk
Embedding The ‘Embedding Business and Community Engagement through Business Process Improvement and Internal Engagement’ project set out to identify examples of good practice and common barriers and issues faced by further education colleges and higher education institutions engaging with the Business and Community Sectors. Now complete, the online resource provides the sector with examples and a framework for reviewing and developing BCE within your own college/institution. Project Manager: John Burke Email: j.burke@northumbria.ac.uk W: http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/embedding-bce
Engagement This project aims to help FE and HE institutions develop business models for working with SMEs by offering advice and guidance for capitalising on web technologies. There are wide variations in the use and awareness of the benefits of the internet by SMEs. The project will provide an analysis and synthesis of SME need/demand and institutional capability through a study that will include good practice and exemplars. Project Manager: Punam Khosla Email: punam@techdis.ac.uk
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/bce