Erasmus Mundus Course
In March and April 2009, 3 members of the Centre, Ken Foster, Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn, contributed to the Erasmus Mundus Intensive Programme on Leisure, Entertainment and Governance (LEGo), held in Trondheim, Norway.
This prestigious course allows students from the participating institutions to attend a short intensive programme, and attain credits for their studies. The bonus being that participation for successful candidates is fully funded, with the European Union paying for accommodation and travel. LEGo is part of a strong, ongoing collaboration between The Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU, Norway and the Department of Sport Sciences at Malmo University.
The course itself was an incredibly enjoyable and profitable one – for staff and students alike. Aswell as academic input from Westminster, Malmo and NTNU, a superb social programme was designed by staff at NTNU, and in addition a memorable day was spent at Rosenborg football club where students were able to hear about current developments direct from the Managing Director in a 2 hour session, before more traditional lectures took over, admittedly wit ha view of the football pitch out of the window which was not so typical. Westminster sent 5 students, all from the LLM Entertainment Law programme, to Trondheim and feedback was very positive:
“The LEGo course was an enlightening experience for me as practitioner of common law”.
“Participating on this LEGo course has been intellectually challenging and it broadened my horizons both academically and culturally. The interdisciplinary approach was a stimulating and highly collaborative effort”.
“I was impressed by the professionalism of most of the participants and the most valuable aspect of the event was the ability to find out actualities of different fields covered in the course”.
“The interaction with the people coming from different academic and cultural backgrounds made me opened my mind and challenged my way of thinking”.
“The theoretical and intellectual debates related with the governance and regulation of the social, economic, legal and cultural aspects of the leisure, sport and entertainment were assets to my LLM Entertainment Law course at Westminster University. Being a student engaged in entertainment law, this course has contributed to my studies and I would recommend this to anybody interested in entertainment law and governance”.
The students were a great bunch and as one of the lecturers said “The students were as good a graduate group as I have encountered, and I had many years of such groups. They were a great bunch of students and I am very sad to be leaving them.”
High praise indeed, and we are looking forward to reconvening the event in Malmo in April 2010, details to follow via the Leisure, Entertainment and Governance site.
