Programme Support

A programme of projects should deliver more than the sum of its parts. However, individual projects often become focussed on their explicit deliverables and overlook important project level outcomes.

Through expert facilitation skills, Netskills can help by supporting cross-programme communication and collaboration, ensuring that projects remain aware of and aligned to the overall aims of a programme. Additionally, we can also help to synthesise programme and project outputs and amplify the lessons learned to a wider audience.

What we can offer:

Supporting studies and benefits realisation
Awareness raising and synthesis of outputs
Advice regarding the use of technology to develop an online programme community
Expert management, set-up and facilitation of programme meetings and events

Recent programme support projects:

JISC BCE Open Innovation and Access to Resources (OIA2R) Knowledge Sharing: Netskills is facilitating the effective sharing of knowledge and intelligence across the eight OIA2R projects and the JISC Advance BCE team.; Nov-2010 — Jul-2011; More information
JISC Greening ICT Support: Netskills is providing support for the JISC Greening ICT Programme by helping the project communicate and collaborate more effectively, synthesizing their findings and amplifying the key messages to a wider audience.; Sep-2010 — May-2011; More information
Elluminate Support for JISC Advance and JISC e-Learning Programme: Netskills is administering and providing training and support for the use of the Elluminate online meeting software by JISC Advance services, Regional Support Centres and projects within the JISC e-Learning programme.; Feb-2009 — Feb-2011
JISC Institutional Responses to Emergent Technologies (IRET): Netskills delivered a supporting studies and synthesis project for the JISC Institutional Responses to Emergent Technologies programme. Outputs included a landscape report, case studies and guidance materials for HEI managers.; Aug-2008 — Feb-2010; More information
Federated Access Management: Core Skills Training: We are developing and delivering two workshop programmes across the UK to help the community explore technical skills required to deploy Federated Access Management at their institutions. Following the success of the initial programme for Identity Providers (IdPs), the project is now providing support for organisations and institutions who wish to act as Service Providers (SPs).; Apr-2007 — Jul-2009; More information
JISC Materials Refresh for BCE: The Netskills Training Materials are being re-purposed specifically for practitioners in Business and Community Engagement (BCE).; Aug-2008 — Jul-2009
Scenario Planning for JISC's JOS Committee: This JISC-funded project applied the full scenario planning process to consider the roles, responsibilities and organisational structures required to support future working practices in Higher Education.; Aug-2008 — May-2009; More information