Sheffield (UK), August 2007 - Learning Light (LL), a non-profit centre of excellence in the use of learning technologies in the workplace, has hosted a delegation from Poland on a fact-finding mission to learn about the UK's multimedia and information-systems sector.
LL and its associates, The MRS Consultancy, played host to a delegation from MultiKlaster, an EU-funded project that aims to create a 'cluster of multimedia and information systems' in Nowy Sqcz, Poland.
Kinga Pawlowska, president of the MultiKlaster board, and Pawlowska's colleague Elwira Waszkiewicz spent several days with the Yorkshire-based MRS Consultancy in order to learn and share experiences of working with creative and digital businesses. While they were in Yorkshire, the Polish delegation met representatives of the computer games developer Sumo Digital as well as Renaissance South Yorkshire, the Workshop, Creative Sheffield, and LL.
Among those contributing to the talks that the Poles held while in the UK were Tony Newson, formerly programme chief executive of the Objective 1 Directorate in South Yorkshire; Richard Lukey of Business Link South Yorkshire, and David Patterson, LL's head of partnerships, who is responsible for the LL business-support activities in the eLearning cluster. Patterson manages the LL 'VEN' of companies, which work together to win bids for large contracts jointly and also support the UK LearnOnline consortium of eLearning companies worldwide.
Mark Pittaway, LL's CEO, commented: "We were delighted to have this opportunity to demonstrate some of the UK's capabilities and achievements in the digital industries sector, especially in terms of the application of learning technologies in the workplace."
Learning Light is a non-profit organisation that builds relationships between learning technology researchers, suppliers, buyers, and learners providing learner-centric information to encourage the growth of learning technologies. By sharing comprehensive research, highlighting successes and failures, Learning Light helps to promote the learning-technologies community.
