LUCID is a research project funded by Advantage West Midlands as part of Birmingham’s Science City project which aims to help SMEs in the area to develop content and applications for mobile devices.

Screen Media Lab has created two workshops to bring ICT and multimedia SMEs in the West Midlands up to speed with the latest developments in mobile information delivery, and enable them to start providing mobile content and services.

The first workshop, on Jan 22nd 09, will give the SMEs an introduction to the issues, technology and opportunities. The second workshop, on Feb 5th 09, will deliver a set of practical tutorials and consultancy with mobile experts.

For more information, please contact Alexa Torlo on 0121 204 9882 or alexa.torlo@bcu.ac.uk

A neat little item this – Tales of Creativity is a collection of video and written profiles of graduates from the various courses run from Screen Media Lab that hopes to give readers an insight into the everday reality of working in the creative industries.

There are 18 profiles from a whole host of disciplines to browse through, with examples of everyone’s work.  There’s the odd advert for BCU’s MA in Media Enterprise but the profiles of people getting on and doing their creative thing in Birmingham are really quite interesting.  They’ve certainly never been mentioned on CiB before so I might pull a few out on a slow news day.