Blackpool City of Learning

A chance to reconnect with Cities of Learning and to re-engage with utilising Blackpool City of Learning.
Or maybe you are new to the whole approach of badge based learning and want to know the how to and more.
Register now, it’s free, online and a chance to meet and work with youth workers from across Europe and beyond.

🚀𝑶𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑩𝒂𝒅𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
Are you a youth worker, non-formal educator, project manager, mentor, or career advisor?🙋
Join our newest fully funded Erasmus+ online training course, developed to equip you with the tools and skills to design high-quality digital Open Badges to enhance learner engagement, recognition, and alignment with the EU’s strategy!🇪🇺💪

🔗𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 👉 https://badgequalitylabel.net/en/activities/21665

📅17 September – 9 October 2025
(𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒)

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏?
🔹6 online workshops (15:00–16:30 CEST) — from “What is an Open Badge?” to “How to review badge evidence”
🔹Self-paced activities in-between
🔹Digital credentials if you attend at least 50% of workshops and earn at least 4 badges
🔹A chance to get ready to apply for the Cities of Learning 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥 for badge recognition
🔹An expert team of trainers: Nerijus Kriauciunas, Sandra Zoomers and Buzz Bury

Don’t miss this chance to elevate your organisation’s recognition practices and learn more about , our and !

Happy that the 5th Blackpool City of Learning Newsletter is now out: https://mailchi.mp/f7e5b6b97dc8/blackpool-city-of-learning-july2025
Sign Up, have a read, give us a follow!

Blackpool City of Learning Welcome back to the Blackpool City of Learning newsletter – a slightly irregular but always intentional update! As the summer holidays arrive and schools, colleges and university gates begin to close, our learning community and opportunities are still there and remain available. Learning doesn’t...

VR in Cities of Learning: another pioneering international project. Funded by Erasmus+, are the Italian lead applicant, with the partnership including Awero from Lithuania, Breakthrough from the Netherlands, Codec from Cyprus, Sira from Belgium and ourselves Think Forward and Blackpool City of Learning from the UK. We’ve already had our partners kickoff meeting in Belgium and now busy preparing for the training in April and to buy some kit.. so it’s all pretty exciting for this two year project. .eu

Blackpool City of Learning Newsletter is back.

Blackpool City of Learning After a short break and some radio silence, here is our quarterly e-newsletter. It’s a chance to find out what’s happening locally as well as internationally. Whilst communication may have been quiet there have been many new and ongoing developments. Following on from National Youth Work Week an...

December can be busy, so save the date for our Cities of Learning Community Call 🎄📞

📆 When: 3pm CET on Thursday 12th December
📍 Where: Online on Zoom

Register here 👉 https://bit.ly/3YFH78L

🤝 Project co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

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December can be busy, so save the date for our Cities of Learning Community Call 🎄📞

📆 When: 3pm CET on Thursday 12th December
📍 Where: Online on Zoom

Register here 👉 https://bit.ly/3YFH78L

🤝 Project co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

Yup that’s us the UK partner. Watch this space.

For World Refugee Week from our Network partners:
Dear all, a new Virtual Exchange is coming up and once again we ask for your cooperation in reaching out to young people in our Cities, Regions and Islands of Learning! 🥳

This time, we're taking the opportunity of World Refugee Day, which this year is dedicated to Storyteller Celebration, to talk about migration, refugees' experiences and stories of resilience, and to tackle another one of the European Youth Goals ( #3 Inclusive Societies) by asking ourselves how we can help to build a more inclusive, welcoming European society. 🇪🇺

Registration link: https://bit.ly/VE20june
Date: Thursday 20th of June 2024
Time: 17:00 - 18:30 CEST
Where: Online on Zoom

We invite all young people aged 16-31 from our Cities, Regions and Islands of Learning (and beyond) to join us next week and earn a new digital badge.
Check out the activity on our platform and spread the word: https://global.cityoflearning.eu/en/activities/18900

CoL Virtual Exchange: World Refugee Day (Youth Goal #3) Welcome to the **Cities of Learning Network’s Virtual Exchanges**, an opportunity for young people from all Cities, Regions and Islands of Learning to connect, exchange, have fun and learn together! ![]() This exchange, called **World Refugee ...

The latest news from the network: https://mailchi.mp/badgecraft/news-13731763?fbclid=IwAR2UOOQ5TV1YKyn_xFYLAU1s75ggVcUy-SHbnfWHAnO2XEm0Onyj-6mdj8w

Cities of Learning News 👀 Last month partner organisations of the project Quality Label for Badge Recognition met in Ljubljana for their second meeting. During the meeting, partners worked on...

Sign the petition now to get the UK back participating in Erasmus+

YEM - Embrace Erasmus YEM UK, along with partners, is calling on the government to restore Britain's membership of the Erasmus+ Programme

Come and join us for us International Men’s Day on Blackpool City of Learning.

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