Category Archives: Funded Projects

Phase 3 Benefits Realisation Projects

Six new benefits realisation projects have been funded following the last invitation for ideas from the Phase 3 Lifelong Learning and Work Force Development Programme in addition to the three projects who have already received benefits realisation funding within the programme. The projects cover a range of themes around frameworks and portfolios to support work-based [...]

Benefits Realisation: Reports from two completed projects

The benefits realisation activities have now been running for over 12 months and projects are starting to report on what they have achieved. So far two projects have submitted final reports and several more are due in the next few weeks. These reports are a good opportunity for others to discover the sort of activities [...]

Details of BR Briefing Session

A briefing session for the benefits realisation funding for Phase3: Lifelong Learning and Work Force Development Projects only will be held on Wednesday 2nd June 15:30 – 16:30.
To attend the briefing please dial the number below and enter the code when requested.
Dial-in number for Bristol BT MeetMe conference call 0844 561 0086 or 0800 731 [...]

Benefits Realisation Funding for Phase3 projects

There is a new invitation for Lifelong Learning and WorkforceDevelopment Projects to apply for benefits realisation funding. Further details available to download Benefits Realisation Phase 1d Invitation-final.

Report from TAG Seminar

I recently attended this seminar which is a good example of wider benefits realisation, and clearly demonstrates the success of wider engagement.
TAG HEA Evidence-based Practice Seminar – March 4, 2010
The seminar was funded under the HEA Seminar series[1] and considered issues of student retention and motivating student learning in relation to the TAG[2] Project at [...]

December 09 Projects

We are pleased to have final agreement to fund five projects submitted in December before the funding freeze.
BR1c-01 The ASSET Project, University of Reading, will be working with several institutions and existing networks around using technology to provide better feedback to learners. They aim to engage senior learning and teaching staff within several institutions through [...]

BR Funding Freeze

Many of you will be aware that future funding under the JISC Capital Funding programmes has been frozen, for further details see
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2010/01/funding.aspx
This is likely to include any further benefits realisation funding under the Institutional Innovations programme. Funding for existing benefits realisation projects is not affected as far as we know.
Until we have more information we [...]

Eligible Partner Institutions

I have been asked to clarify who can be included as partner institutions within BR projects. I refer back to the original Circular for the programme which stated elibiliity for funding as: 
“Higher Education (HE) Institutions funded by HEFCE or HEFCW.  FE institutions in England that teach HE to more than 400 FTEs are also eligible [...]

TAG Benefits Realisation Project

The TAG benefits realisation project is about to get started and will be building a resource to support other institutions to develop student led Alternative Guides. The project will run until May 2010, and be led by Lucy Warman from UCLAN.
The resource called “GetTAGged” that will support institutions to embed the resources and processes of [...]

Final call for benefits realisation ideas

The final invitation for ideas for benefits realisation funding has been issued today. Full details are available from http://br.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/phase-1c/.
The inivitation has rolling monthly deadlines, up to June 2010. The funding must be allocated by the end of June and if possble much earlier so get you ideas in before the money runs out (which it [...]

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