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If you are interested in facilitating work related or community engaged learning in your module, we are here to help. What we can do for you:
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For Project Live Experiences taking place in the 2021/2022 Academic Year:
Step One: Express Your Interest
In early May the Experiential Learning Office will promote Project Live across all departments at Maynooth University. Academics will be invited to express their interest in specific project briefs / needs via an online form.

Step Two: Connect with External Partners
Once you have expressed interest you will be invited to the Virtual Project Live Expo on Friday May 14th, 2021. Here you will have an opportunity to learn more about Project Live and the External Partner's projects / needs that interest you.

Step Three: Apply
If you have identified a project need / brief that is the right fit for both your module and the external partner we invite you to apply to the Project Live funding stream. The aim of this initiative is to stimulate, support, celebrate and sustain the delivery of curriculum-based community engaged or work-related learning, by providing an opportunity for engagement to those who have not had capacity, administrative or funding support to date. The funding is to be used to support the delivery of community engaged or work-related learning by academics and external partners at Maynooth University. Applications for funding close on Friday, June 04th 2021 at 5pm.

Step 4: Participate
All the Project Live applications are reviewed by the Expert Panel once the deadline closes in early June. Successful applicants are then notified via e-mail by the Experiential Learning Office and funding is transferred shortly thereafter. We ask all participants to complete an evaluation and short report and return it to us before the end of the Semester.

What is out of scope?

Short Term Placements

Individual Postgraduate Theses

Presentations/Visits with no student participation/reflection

Individual Academic Research Projects

Projects with Community Consultation rather than participation

Professional Placement Modules

Projects requiring students to take up a non paid or Volunteering Positions

I teach multiple modules. Can I be in receipt of funding for more than one project live experience in one academic year?

Unfortunately, not. Our funding is limited therefore individual academics are only eligible for one project live experience each academic year. This means Academics can only secure up to one €3000 Project Live fund per academic year.
My module currently contains an element(s) of work related or community engaged learning. Can I apply for Project Live funding in respect of this module for the coming academic year?
Yes, once your current/future partners are happy to sign up to the project live experience. We will also ask you to outline how the teaching and learning experience will be enhanced with project live funding.
I already did my own version of Project Live last semester /academic year. Can I apply for funding retrospectively?
Unfortunately, not. Project live funding can only be used to enhance current teaching modules and funding cannot be provided for teaching enhancements that happened in the past.
What can the funding be used for?
Funding can be used to directly enhance the provision of experiential learning in the curriculum. On this basis, expenses not covered by the project live fund includes:

Accommodation costs

Academic travel expenses

Office supplies

Conference registrations

Activities already taken place

Covered expenses include but are not limited to:

Teaching assistant expenses to support in the direct delivery of the project

Buy-out of applicants teaching time in another module to focus on the delivery of project live

Software, but careful consideration should be given to sustainability and how such software would be funded post project live

Specialised technical equipment clearly aligned to the outcomes of the Project Live Proposal

Stipend of up to €100 for travel related expenses for the community / industry partner

Will my external partners travel expenses be covered by Project Live?
We do advise a proportion of your Project Live funding to be allocated to travel costs of your external partner, although the decision as to whether to do so and the process of reimbursing them for their expenses is the responsibility of the academic.
Do I apply to Project Live to find an External partner to help me achieve my personal research goals?
Project Live is focused on the enhancement of teaching and learning in the curriculum. Although finding a future research partner may be a benefit of participating in project live, it is not its core purpose and should not be used for such.

There are other schemes in MU available for this purpose: visit the Centre for Teaching and Learning to learn more.
Do you support the submission of joint proposal applications from academics in two departments?
Yes, absolutely, once your external stakeholder is open to the multidisciplinary project live experience.
How will I receive the funding?
This will be administered into your general research account. If you do not have a general research account an alternative method will be arranged.

I already have an External Partner for a Project Live Experience. What do I do?
If you have already identified an external partner you will engage with as part of the Project Live initiative, please watch our information sessions on Moodle. A link to the application form will be live on Moodle in May. This application form must be co-written by both parties.

If you have a question that's not answered above please do not hesitate to contact the Project Live team at projectlive@mu.ie

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For Project Live Experiences taking place in the 2021/2022 Academic Year:
1. Tell us your proposal / need
External Stakeholders are invited to share their project / need with us from Mid March until Friday 30th April 2021 via an online form here

All External Stakeholders are welcome to attend an online workshop taking place on Wednesday 24th March 2021 at 1pm. At this event we'll talk about Project Live and the benefits of participating in the programme. We'll discuss how working with Maynooth University students can deliver practical benefits to your organisation and enhance student real world learning. If you would like to attend this event please register here.

2. Identify a suitable partner
Once you have expressed interest you will be invited to the Virtual Project Live Expo on Friday May 14th, 2021. Here you will have an opportunity to meet with Academics that have an interest in your project / need and find out more about their module.

3. Co-Create a Project Proposal
If you have identified a module that is the right fit for your need we invite you and your Academic Partner to co-create a project proposal. The Academic will submit this on your behalf. Applications close on Friday, June 04th 2021 at 5pm.

Step 4: Engage
All the Project Live applications are reviewed by the Expert Panel once the deadline closes in early June. Successful applicants are then notified via e-mail by the Experiential Learning Office. We ask all participants to complete an evaluation and short report and return it to us before the end of the Semester. If you encounter any issues, don't hesitate to contact projectlive@mu.ie

Watch this short video where Máire provides a detailed walk-through of the process from the External Partner perspective.
Frequently Asked Questions
What type of actions does Project Live Support?
Project Live supports partnerships between academic departments / individual teaching staff and external stakeholders (both community and industry) that are primarily concerned with meeting the needs of our stakeholders while also providing students with a deeper and more hands on learning experience involving the application of theory to practice using experiential learning methodologies and processes.

Why should we engage with the University? What are the benefits?
The university environment is a vibrant and innovative space for new ideas and theories but this experience is truly transformative when students can become co-creators of practical responses to real world problems/issues by working alongside industry and community experts. Through their participation in Project Live our students and academics are bringing passion for their subject, their energy, resources and skills to the table and making a meaningful practical contribution to your project/business.

What level of engagement and time commitment is required?
The level of engagement and involvement is decided by you and the academic partner at the outset and depends on a number of factors including; the complexity of the project, the length and nature of the academic module (course), the time commitment that is required from students and the nature of their involvement.

What does the process look like?
The process is outlined in the tab above and involves a number of clear steps including initial contact and expression of interest, facilitated partner identification and discussion and concluding with the submission (by academic partner) of the project proposal for consideration to an expert panel (made up of representatives from all stakeholders including; community, industry, student body and academia)

I have a number of different projects/ideas. Can I submit them all?
Yes, we encourage external stakeholders to identify as many needs as possible. While we will not be able to meet all of these requirements in one semester, it will improve the possibility of finding an academic partner if stakeholders can identify a number of ideas that might be appropriate across a number of academic disciplines.

I have already identified a partner within the university that I would like to work with . Can I approach them directly?
If you already know what your organisation requires and you have an existing relationship with an academic department or individual at MU you will both still need to submit an application to the programme in order to be considered. Applications open in May. We cannot guarantee that academic departments will be successful in their application so it might be useful to consider expressing your interest so you can be connected with other similar departments in order to increase your chances of being successful with your project.

I already have a partner within the university that I work with. Why should I apply for Project Live?
MU Project Live has been developed to enhance the universities capacity to engage with the wider community. By engaging with Project Live you will be giving your partner academic/department the opportunity to receive funding that will enhance their capacity to work with you. Involvement in the Project will also give your organisation exposure to a wider audience. All Project Live participants will be featured in university promotional materials and successful projects will be promoted as Case Studies for best practice in work related and engaged learning at MU.

Who owns the finished product? What are the Intellectual Property Considerations?
As Project Live is developed in line with the universities' policy on public engagement its primary purpose is the creation of material/products or services that directly benefit the external stakeholder. Projects will be referred to the Commercialisation Office where a specific issue arises concerning product ownership.

How can we be sure that our needs will be met?
The project Live Team will ask you to address a number of key questions that will help you to clearly identify your project needs. This includes considering what type of material you hope to produce and whether your project might be more suitable for undergraduate/postgraduate students etc. The Team will also assist with the drawing up of a contract with your academic partner to ensure clarity around roles, responsibilities and agreed outcomes.

If you have a question that's not answered above please do not hesitate to contact the Project Live team at projectlive@mu.ie

For Project Live Experiences taking place in the 2021/2022 Academic Year:
External Stakeholders are invited to share their project / need with us from Mid March via an online form here . The deadline for Expression of Interests is Friday April 30th, 2021.

All External Stakeholders are welcome to attend an online workshop taking place on Wednesday 24th March 2021 at 1pm. At this event we'll talk about Project Live and the benefits of participating in the programme. We'll discuss how working with Maynooth University students can deliver practical benefits to your organisation and enhance student real world learning. If you would like to attend this event please register here.

For any queries, please e-mail projectlive@mu.ie

Students who undertake courses with a community engaged or work related learning component benefit in many ways:
Learning Outcomes

Positive impact on academic learning that extends beyond the module

Improves Analysis, Critical Thinking and Cognitive Development and helps with understanding complex academic theories

Helps students to connect theory to practice and apply what they have learnt through real world experiences

Personal Outcomes

Improving Self Efficacy - Building self confidence in your skills and abilities to work through tasks competently

Strengthening Interpersonal/Personal Skills - teamwork, leadership, communication

Social Outcomes

Greater intercultural understanding and social analysis

Builds innovation and networking skills with your community

Increases potential for active citizenship and public engagement after graduation.

Career Development

Connections with Professionals and Communities for Career and Learning Opportunities

Improved academic performance combined with better interpersonal skills and increased confidence can lead to greater opportunities .

Relationship with your University/Your College Experience

Stronger relationships with your peers, your lecturers and your faculty

More active participation leads to greater satisfaction with your college experience

Both of these benefits contribute to stronger graduation rates.

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Project Live is: Collaboration between External Stakeholders, Academics and Students.

Is concerned with: Enrichment of the curriculum and enhancement of teaching and learning using community engaged and work-related learning principles and practice.

Involves the: Co-creation of materials, products and services to directly benefit the external stakeholder, while also supporting discipline focussed, credit bearing, curricular learning programmes and modules.

Individual academics, academic departments and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels

External stakeholders from the community and industry including voluntary, charity, community and youth organisations, public and private sector organisations, schools, small and medium enterprises, social enterprises and larger commercial bodies.

This Experiential Learning Office initiative gives external partners the opportunity to connect easily with academics and Maynooth University students. The programme also creates opportunities for you to bring new insights to your organisation and to help develop the skills of Maynooth University students.

Once you have expressed interest you will be invited to the Project Live Expo where you will have an opportunity to meet academics interested in your proposal and tell them more about your need. This is taking place on Friday May 14th, 2021.

Please note: If you already know what your organisation requires and you have an existing relationship with an academic department or individual at MU you will both still need to submit an application to the programme in order to be considered. Applications open in May. We cannot guarantee that academic departments will be successful in their application so it might be useful to consider expressing your interest so you can be connected with other similar departments in order to increase your chances of being successful with your project.

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MU Project Live - External Partner Expression of Interest

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13:05:28 From  Maire Buckley  to  Everyone : Hi everyone, welcome to the Project Live workshop. Please find the link to our padlet below which contains all the key resources for todays session:
https://padlet.com/MU_EXPLEARING/x8ytku86xqd42ojk 
Don't forget to introduce yourself below!
13:05:35 From  Lisa Rowntree  to  Everyone : Lisa Rowntree from Ace Enterprise Park, Clondalkin
13:05:45 From  Liz Brosnan  to  Everyone : Hi All,
13:05:50 From  Sharon Lane  to  Everyone : Hi everyone, Sharon Lane, Dyspraxia/DCD Ireland
13:06:08 From  Martin McConigley  to  Everyone : Martin McConigley. Adult Ed Coordinator for LYCS - A community org in Dublin city.
13:06:16 From  Sean Darcy  to  Everyone : Hi Sean from Celbridge Community Council
13:06:18 From  Emma Berney  to  Everyone : Hello Everyone, Emma Berney here from Kildare Children & Young People's Services Committee (CYPSC)
13:06:22 From  Eoin Flaherty  to  Everyone : I'm from the sociology department at MU, hi everyone
13:06:27 From  Sinéad Bashir  to  Everyone : Hi everyone, Sinéad Bashir, community development worker from Co Kildare LEADER Partnership
13:06:29 From  Ó MuiríPeadar  to  Everyone : Teresa Murray Maynooth Community Council
13:06:38 From  Gail Seekamp  to  Everyone : Hi everyone. I'm Gail, North Wall CDP, Sheriff St. D1.
13:06:39 From  Liz Brosnan  to  Everyone : I'm working on Mental Health engagement with HSE locally -bring the voice of lived experience into MH service management spaces
13:06:42 From  Marsha Williams  to  Everyone : Hi All, I'm Marsha Williams from the Chief Officers Office, Dublin South, Kildare and West Wicklow Community Healthcare (CHO7) 
13:06:45 From  Laura Whelan  to  Everyone : Laura Whelan, I am a Community Worker for Kildare County Council
13:06:46 From  Sara Stephens  to  Everyone : Sara Stephens - consultant on the Kildare Integration Strategy
13:07:13 From  cassandra ryan  to  Everyone : Hi, I am Cassandra Ryan from Down Syndrome Kildare Branch.
13:07:36 From  Niamh Conaghan  to  Everyone : Hi Everyone. Integration Project Worker for County Kildare LEADER Partnership. Working with people in Direct Provision
13:07:45 From  Gary Cogan  to  Everyone : Gary Cogan, Community Garda based in Naas.
13:07:56 From  Majella Keefe  to  Everyone : Hi Majella O Keefe, Naas Access and Disability group also Co Kildare Access Network representing the 5 Municipal Districts Access Group. 
13:08:17 From  Maire Buckley  to  Everyone : www.menti.com
13:09:02 From  Majella Keefe  to  Everyone : Apology I8 have  vision impairment
13:09:04 From  Liz Brosnan  to  Everyone : Hard to answer that one Aisling, I'm new (ish) in post but know HSE has been very engaged with MU in past and currently
13:09:26 From  Majella Keefe  to  Everyone : 42734687
13:11:38 From  Majella Keefe  to  Everyone : engagement, opportunity to collaborat
13:12:12 From  Liz Brosnan  to  Everyone : All of above Marie
13:30:05 From  Vanessa Liston  to  Everyone : This is a fantastic initiative. Could Eoin kindly outline the extent of the challenge around licensed public data and related issues with use, reuse by communities.
13:31:21 From  Vanessa Liston  to  Everyone : Thinking in particular of GIS data
13:31:48 From  Eoin Flaherty  to  Everyone : Hi Vanessa, happy to comment on that, can type either if time is short
13:32:58 From  Vanessa Liston  to  Everyone : Thanks Eoin, typing is great too.
13:33:29 From  Eoin Flaherty  to  Everyone : Maynooth has a great institute involved in geographical data analysis and curation. The data visualisation tools at AIRO have been used by various groups extensively in the past: https://airo.maynoothuniversity.ie/
13:35:19 From  Eoin Flaherty  to  Everyone : My course focuses on household surveys, so my students work with the European Survey of Income and Living Conditions, and the European Social Survey. That allows us to look at individual characteristics and determinants of voter engagement, but also to look closer at the characteristics oh households in terms of income, deprivation, housing, income types, benefit receipts, etc. Much of this data is available to researchers for reuse through the Irish Social Science Data Archive at UCD.
13:37:00 From  Eoin Flaherty  to  Everyone : But we also look at data left by state departments - part of our data infrastructure development goal in this project is to catalogue some of the more useful pieces/sources of public data.
13:38:58 From  Vanessa Liston  to  Everyone : Thanks Eoin, a key challenge for empowering communities to use and query data, find insights and look for solutions is the licensing around publicly funded data that creates barriers to its use. In terms of community engagement would you see that this an issue for building sustainable capacity in terms of long term benefitting from the skills and engagement through this programme.
13:39:30 From  Maire Buckley  to  Everyone : Please find the link to our padlet below which contains all the key resources for the breakout room session. Just click on "Project Live Breakout Room Activity"
https://padlet.com/MU_EXPLEARING/x8ytku86xqd42ojk
13:40:26 From  Vanessa Liston  to  Everyone : This is why communities have to use and build through OpenStreetMap for example but have limited rights to overlay public data layers.
13:42:54 From  Eoin Flaherty  to  Everyone : Vanessa, yes I think it is a major issue. GDPR also changed access pathways quite quickly, and the state takes a specific definition of who is eligible to access data. The ISSDA uses a condition of access to 'bona-fide researchers', which in practice often means researchers in Universities partnering with outside contributors. This is one of the main routes to data access, but it's quite restrictive to those not working in a university or for a state agency. But there are lots of data available beyond the 'big' datasets like SILC, or Growing up in Ireland, and we want to explore how those could be better put to use also.
13:45:22 From  Maire Buckley  to  Everyone : If anyone has any issues getting onto the Padlet just let me know. It's best to click on the link before you enter the breakout room:  https://padlet.com/MU_EXPLEARING/x8ytku86xqd42ojk
14:09:22 From  Maire Buckley  to  Everyone : https://padlet.com/MU_EXPLEARING/x8ytku86xqd42ojk
14:18:01 From  An Scanlon  to  Everyone : Will the recording of the meeting be available for us after?
14:19:16 From  Maire Buckley  to  Everyone : Hi An - yes I'll add it to the padlet and we'll share a link to it via e-mail afterwards
14:19:37 From  An Scanlon  to  Everyone : Thanks
14:28:33 From  Liz Brosnan  to  Everyone : Marie Will that include the chat introductions made and info shared?
14:28:40 From  Gail Seekamp  to  Everyone : A quick question also please
14:29:07 From  Maire Buckley  to  Everyone : perfect we'll stay on for some time after to run through all the questions :)
14:30:08 From  An Scanlon  to  Everyone : Is there a financial cost to being involved?
14:30:32 From  Maire Buckley  to  Everyone : Hi Liz I can save the chat and upload that also if that would be of benefit
14:30:39 From  Sean Darcy  to  Everyone : Brilliant seminar thanks so much loads of food for thought
14:33:31 From  Liz Brosnan  to  Everyone : Thanks to all
14:33:57 From  Lisa Rowntree  to  Everyone : Thanks everyone, very informative, and the padlet was a great tool
14:34:02 From  Niamh Conaghan  to  Everyone : Thank you. Very interesting workshop
14:34:03 From  Sharon Lane  to  Everyone : Thank you
14:34:22 From  Gail Seekamp  to  Everyone : Thank you, I'll stay with a few questions.
14:34:27 From  Sinéad Bashir  to  Everyone : Thanks so much, lots to think about, great potential!
14:42:47 From  Vanessa Liston  to  Everyone : Thank you everyone for a fabulous initiative and meeting.
14:42:58 From  Teresa   to  Everyone : Thank you to all involved. Really good experience and presentations
14:43:36 From  Emma Berney  to  Everyone : Thank you for the session. Looking forward to scoping out the potential collaborative projects.
14:43:50 From  Gary Cogan  to  Everyone : Not sure why its not working but I'm trying to raise my hand.
14:46:05 From  Maire Buckley  to  Everyone : No worries Gary just jump in when suits.
14:47:27 From  Laura Whelan  to  Everyone : Thanks a million, such an informative session. Looking forward to developing some potential projects.
14:53:49 From  Gail Seekamp  to  Everyone : I'm going to leave at this point.  Thank you for that very interesting seminar.
