EUROPE - Global exhibition association UFI has unveiled a new online education tool aimed at making its learning available to the greater exhibition industry community.
The Education Centre, which can be freely accessed online at ufi.org/edcentre, has been developed together with UFI’s technical partner, Virtual Orange. It consists of different sections that provide click-through access to a variety of online exhibition-related educational courses, presentations and networking opportunities.
UFI MD Paul Woodward invited all those interested in learning more about the exhibition industry to take advantage of the new facility.
“The UFI Education Centre makes available knowledge and expertise in an original online environment,” he said. “For a long time we have felt that there was a huge amount of valuable content which UFI should be sharing with the exhibition community. This Education Centre takes a giant step to making this knowledge easily accessible to all.”
Drawing on the content of the presentations made during UFI’s various professional events, the ‘meetings’ section provides Education Centre visitors with specially edited videos and accompanying highlights from speaker slides.
Currently available 20 minute video programmes include those from the UFI Focus Meetings on Operations and ICT held recently in Utrecht. The videos from the UFI Open Seminar in Europe and UFI Focus Meeting on Sustainable Development will be posted shortly. This section also includes UFI’s online course: ‘The Role of the Exhibition Industry in the Marketing Mix’, available in a number of languages, soon to be joined by UFI’s online course ‘Eight Steps to Sustainability’.
The ‘Library’ includes additional materials related to the exhibition industry such as surveys, studies and useful links to other education resources for the exhibition industry, while the ‘Lounge’ area gives registered visitors a chance to communicate with other users and share personal exhibition-related experience.
Earlier this week UFI formed an alliance with the European Major Exhibition Centres Association (EMECA) to promote the significance of the exhibition industry within the European Union.
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