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People's Voice Media - Community Reporters

People’s Voice Media, a social enterprise in Manchester backed by two local universities, has trained over 1,000 Community Reporters to video local events with flip video cameras. They then use social networking to portray their recorded events to each other, and the BBC North. This has empowered local people to develop the confidence to discuss their issues and worries with all sorts of senior people, in a powerful and compelling way.

Eco Ernie

This is the eco-milk float from Solent University’s award winning project known as Eco-Ernie. The University’s enterprise team worked with their students and the local community to develop a simple and effective way of collecting rubbish and recycle textiles and recyclable items, from student’s homes and halls of residence, during the student changeover period and throughout the academic year and these goods were then used by the community in a number of ways.

Guns for Goods

‘Guns for Goods’ is an exciting partnership between Salford University, a Charity – CARISMA – and the Greater Manchester Police to develop community leadership in an enterprise that will convert gun metals, reclaimed from the police armoury, into design concepts and goods for manufacture; thus enabling a direct source of potential income to sustain the process.

ICCARUS

This is a screen shot from ICCARUS - a multi-media learning simulator, devised by staff from Portsmouth University, who worked closely with fire officers and staff the National Fire College. The simulator simply coached working fire officers in the most effective ways of controlling major fire incidents. It has been successful used to train a new generation of effective fire officers.

Contraception – The Board Game

Contraception – The Board Game was developed by Maternity Nurse Lecturer - Barbara Hastings-Asatorian. She set up a social enterprise which developed a new learning tool to teach young people of the need for, and better use of, contraception. Barbara’s  nurses didn’t like talking about sex, and contraception, with young people, but the game Barbara developed has now been translated into three languages and is now sold all over the world, helping the young learn the facts of life, in a fun way.  

14th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - South Africa

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