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March 7th, 2018 by Graham Attwell

Regular readers may know Pontydysgu have been involved in different European projects around the use of technology in education, the training of teachers and trainers and careers advice and counselling (amongst others) since 2000, working with partners from virtually every EU member state.

Obviously the decision of the UK to leave the European Union has a major impact on our work. Although we have had offices and employees working in Germany and Wales since the company was founded (and more recently in Spain), Pontydysgu is registered as a UK company. Therefore, we have set up a new company – Pontydysgu SL, registered in Spain.

We will continue to maintain the UK based company. However if you would be interested in working with us on European projects through our Spanish company we will be very happy to talk with you. Pontydysgu SL will build on the outputs and work of the UK company and the expertise of staff from Pontydysgu Ltd. will transfer to the new Spanish company. We are now working on establishing a Spanish web site and in making the outputs of our work available through this site. Over time we will be relaunching this web site as Pontydysgu.eu to reflect our new direction.

If you are interested in being a partner with Pontydysgu.es please contact graham [at] mac [dot] com

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