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Frankfurt (GER), April 2019 - "New rules and procedures inspired by the recommendations of the EU Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth will affect businesses. They want to understand the upcoming rules on transparency, not only to comply with them, but more importantly to be more informed and perhaps adjust their business models," said Professor Dr Ulf Moslener, Professor for Sustainable Energy Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. » MORE

London (UK), April 2019 - Totara Learning has added the award-winning Zoola Analytics tool as an official product extension for the Totara Learn learning management system (LMS), further expanding the number of integration options available for the platform.  » MORE

Jacksonville, FL (USA), April 2019 - Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), a provider of integrated talent management and learning technologies software and services, has announced the acquisition of Breezy HR. Breezy HR provides small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) with feature rich, intuitive, and user friendly recruitment software in order to optimise their processes and maximise productivity. The acquisition brings a range of benefits both to LTG and to Breezy HR itself. » MORE

Atlanta (USA), April 2019 - LEO Learning and Godiva won the Best Game Based Solution during DemoFest at the Learning Solutions 2019 Conference. The honor recognizes the Godiva multi-level learning game "Chocolate Quest: Guardians of the Cocoa Bean", which uses scenarios, microlearning, and character interactions to help players experience a direct relationship between knowledge, customer experience, and sales. The award also acknowledges LEO Learning’s partnership with Godiva to develop a visually engaging blended learning program to increase employee knowledge and confidence to sell luxury chocolate. » MORE

London (UK), April 2019 - MicroLearn has announced a new partnership with TFS Loans Ltd, based in Rayleigh, Essex. TFS Loans offers a range of consumer finance products for borrowers who are unable to access the high street banks.  » MORE

Brussels (BE), April 2019 - In the UK, recent graduates have an employment rate of 86.6%. In 2014, the EU average employment rate was 76.0%; in 2017, it rose to 80.2%. Greece currently has the lowest employment rate of recent graduates in Europe, at 52.0%; Malta currently has the highest, at 94.5%. Currently, the EU is working with Member States to make education a success for all young people. » MORE

Abidjan (CI) / Berlin (GER), April 2019 - The organisers of Africa’s leading conference on technology assisted learning and training, eLearning Africa, have announced that, for the first time, the event will include a special programme of seminars, discussions, and debates about learning and training for Africa’s farming and food sector. The decision reflects the continuing importance of agriculture in African economies, together with new opportunities and challenges for African food producers in an era of rapid technological change. » MORE

Athen (GR), April 2019 - Creating Conditions for Deeper Learning in Science, the event of the Open Classroom Conference (OCC) series, will take place 29-30 June 2019. Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Athens co-organises the event with the European Distance and E-learning Network. » MORE

London (UK), April 2019 - Totara Learning will be hosting its first-ever EMEA Totara User Conference; the event takes place in London, 15-16 May 2019. The EMEA Totara User Conference is designed for new and existing Totara subscribers, along with anyone interested in finding out more about Totara and how it is used by organisations worldwide. » MORE

New York, NY (USA), April 2019 - ICELW 2019, the twelfth annual International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace, will be held at Columbia University in New York, 12-14 June 2019. The complete program for ICELW 2019 is now online. » MORE

London (UK), April 2019 - James Reed, Chairman of one of Britain’s biggest and best known recruitment companies, REED, will head the bill for Watson Martin’s new season of HR Learning Bites, a series of online information and advice webinars for HR and L&D practitioners.  » MORE

Harpenden (UK), April 2019 - Omniplex’s eLearning community is co-hosting an event with Asda on mobile learning. The event, "Rise to the challenge of mobile learning", will teach delegates how to create inherently responsive eLearning courses. It will also demonstrate how to effectively design learning for mobile devices, using Articulate’s authoring tools Rise 360 and Storyline 360. » MORE

Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), April 2019 - Elliott Masie, an international learning analyst and curator, will host corporate leaders from around the world at his Learning Innovations LAB in June. » MORE