PONToon Team
The bridge to digital skills employment and empowerment.
Project PONToon, Partnership Opportunity using New Technologies fostering sOcial and ecOnomic inclusioN 2017-2021, is a 5.8 million euro digital upskilling collaboration between participants in Southern England and Northern France. The project is 69% funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Interreg France (Channel) England programme and is delivered by 11 partners, The University of Portsmouth (lead), Amiens Métropole, Aspex, ADICE, Digital Peninsula Network, Devon Mind, Eastleigh Borough Council, GIP-FCIP de l'académie de Caen, MEFP, TRAJECTIO and WSX Enterprise.
PONToon is an exciting research project that uses a range of new and developing technologies such as games development, 3D/virtual reality, social media and web/mobile apps to engage, support and up-skill women in order to aid their employment opportunities.
The project is centred around community development, social and economic inclusion and equality. It aims to produce a method of working that's not only scalable and transferrable but also applicable to broader demographic sets and geographical regions for continuing impact.