Current Projects
The University of Bedfordshire Business School is involved in a wide range of projects funded by various British and International Bodies.
This includes: ALFA, ASIA-Link, ASIA-ITC, British Council , DfES, DTI, EEDA, ERASMUS-MUNDUS, ERASMUS +, ESF, EPSRC, FP4/Esprit, FP7/SME, EU/Canada and EU/US Partnership in Education, INTERREG, HEIF, JISC, the Learning Skills Council, Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates and Tempus.
The below list is not exhaustive and only provides a sample of projects in which the Business School is currently participating:
- LEGO® Serious Play® - two projects to develop work to promote equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives using LEGO® Serious Play®
- Project Insight - Fruit Scouting Robot Validation and Integration into Supply-Chain - an UKRI Innovate UK funded project aiming to digitise the earliest stage of the fruit-value chain using data from the Antobot Ltd.'s novel crop scouting robot Insight.
- Advancing Women in Agri-Food Rural Environments (AWARE) - an EU ERASMUS+ funded project aiming to support the growth of women entrepreneurs in the in Agri-Food sector across Europe.
- DigiVIP - Building Virtual Learning Platform for Environmentally-Friendly Digital Transformation Management - an EU ERASMUS+ funded project to develop a digital transformation management curriculum and learning materials with a focus on "environmental sustainability" standards.
- Improving Resource Efficiency of Agribusiness supply chains by Minimising waste using Big Data and Internet of Things sensors (REAMIT) - an INTERREG North West Europe (NWE) funded project to tackle food waste.
- Advancing Digital Precision Aquaculture in China (ADPAC) - an UK China Agri-tech Challenge funded project to develop, apply and integrate the latest technologies of advanced sensors, 5G-based Internet of Things, Big Data analytics and automation to pilot highly digital precision aquaculture in China.
- Land-Mobility - Innovative and digital training materials to foster land mobility initiatives - an EU ERASMUS + funded project to develop training materials for the establishment of land mobility services in partner countries, and to promote similar initiatives in all EU Member States and internationally beyond the project lifetime.
- Implementing technology solution for sustainable development of artisanal fisheries in Santa Catarina (TAF) - a British Council Newton Fund funded project to improve sustainability of artisanal fisheries in southern Brazil by implementing new digital technologies and training local stakeholders to use the chosen technology.
- Computing Competences: Innovative learning approach for non-IT students (CCI) - an EU ERASMUS + funded project to increase innovation and interdisciplinarity of higher education through the development and evaluation of effectiveness of the programming course for non-IT students in European Universities.
- Creating Creative Entrepreneurs (CCE) - a British Council Creative Spark funded partnership between the Business School and Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy (UEPA) to establish a Centre of the Creative Entrepreneurship Development (CCED) in UEPA.
- Gamification and Authentic Aesthetically-motivated Teaching - a HEFCE-funded project that brought together scholars from three disciplines (business, nursing and psychology) and involved resources from three faculties of the University of Bedfordshire. It aims to develop a toolkit based on authentic learning and aesthetically-motivated pedagogies that would lead to the growth of professional qualities in graduates.
- Dominica Creole Project - an AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) funded project aimed at developing and advancing policy proposals to establish Dominica as a Centre of Excellence for the Preservation & Celebration of the Creole Culture through Language, the Arts and its indigenous Kalinagos.
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