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On March 28-29 2023, the third project meeting of VET3D project was held by EILD partner, in Athens, Greece. The meeting gathered partners from the Czech Republic, Greece, Italy and Latvia.

This meeting offers the opportunity to discuss further VET3D platform (Project Result 3), which will be available on a web interface mainly (but not only) for students and teachers of secondary vocational schools.

The project partners discussed the structure, structure of the portal, design, and above all the relevant content with the aim of creating a portal that will be of real help to these target groups in developing soft skills with a view to entering the labour market after graduation.

On the 16th on February, Smart & Cooperation Skills project partners met in Nicosia, Cyprus at Centre for Social Innovation’s headquarter.

This Transnational Project Meeting was the 3 meeting gathering partners from the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Italy, Poland, and Spain.

Project Management and Implementation aspects, as well as development of the Digital Didactic Pills (Project Result 1) and Training course kit for teacher (Project Result 2) has been addressed, enabling partners to have fruitful discussions and prepare their next steps.

In December, Agora’s Final Conference took place in Cluj-Napoca’s former Casino.

Territorial partners shared their learning experiences from the AGORA project. The conference was a public moment of reflection at the end of this 30 months of Agora’s journey.

Erasmus  +  project VET3D partnership held international discussion on December 1, 2022.

The discussion aimed to map the actual situation, problems, and possible solutions in the VET sector in project countries. Project partners introduced the meeting participants with the main results from project research in VET sector from Result 1 and Result 2 as well as discuss the actual problems and challenges in VET sector. 

In total 22 participants from partner countries, namely, Italy, Latvia, Greece, Czech Republic, discussed VET sector challenges. The lack of teachers, also teachers’ ability to transfer soft skills across all learning dimensions, and students’ ability to socialize and build collaboration onsite or in presence was mentioned today as are to be improved as not VET students mainly represent Gen Z and digital socializing manner is more common. Soft skills integration into daily curriculum based on a certain soft skill framework was one more dimension today. Students’ engagement in after-class activities like common projects, camps, and gaming could be also soft skill promoter, but students may lack time and motivation to stay after a long learning day at school. 

The international experts were introduced with Result 1 “DIGICOMP 3D PARTNERSHIP REPORT-  research on the key competencies and soft skills model in Vocational Education and Training for VET students” available on a project web page https://vet3dproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/VET3D-IO1Report-Final-.pdf 

The international experts’ meeting is one of Result 2 “3 Dimension learning model for VET”   activities, finalizing soon in December 2022. The R2 report will be available in January 2023. 

Project VET3D aims to promote soft skills in formal, non-formal, and work-based learning in the VET sector.

Please visit the project web page at https://vet3dproject.eu/ and follow project on FB page https://www.facebook.com/VET3D-Project-109531734918907 

The partners of the Smart and Cooperative Skills project met for the 2^nd Transnational Project Meeting. The meeting was held on the 24-25^th of November in Perugia, Italy. 

The development of the Digital Didactic materials (Project Result 1) was discussed between the partners as well as future procedures for the project. This first part focuses on the development of digital materials on life skills aimed at SEN students.

From the 21st to the 25th of November 2022, a Learning Teaching Training Activity was held in Prague, Czech Republic for the Erasmus+ project BYP “Behave your prints”. 

EUDA hosted 24 participants from all 6 countries to take part in several workshops on:
– Digital challenges for adults and teachers working with kids – how to walk kids through the digital world”
– Introduction to Netiquette – How to behave correctly in the digital world with respect to others”
– Digital Security – Minimum of cyber security awareness.  
– Digital productivity and tools

The 4th day of the training was dedicated to dynamic and interactive roundtables on prepared topics such as:
– Digital Footprint and Online Reputation
– Competitive Jobs in the International labor market
– Youth Digital Citizenship and Critical thinking
– Online Youth Risk Behavior / Youth Safety and Responsible Online Youth Behavior

Thanks to fruitful discussions and sharing of professional and personal experiences in working with the youth generation, our 24 participants gave power to the project by giving crucial elements to be added in the BYP methodology.

Hosted by the Prague9 district, AGORA partners met in person to update each other on their Flagship projects, learn together from common challenges, and think about the sustainability of their regeneration strategies.

A last working meeting before the final public conference in Cluj-Napoca on the 6th, and 7th of December.

On the 13th of October, AGORA partners had the chance to visit the site of the former Odkolek factory where a new residential area for the district of Prague9 will be built.

Want to know more? watch the tour guided by Prague9’s coordinator for AGORA Pavel Pospíšek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8auJFo4V_A&list=PLAnhOWTDrM7M4mNjjgqy6znlALk_H1UWw&index=8&ab_channel=InterregAGORA&fbclid=IwAR1USswYe9zBstiEImvcfJ8N2byKx-L9EX2JcGwrIWflo2tvCme0Uzg9eCo

Part of the AGORA Consortium is attending the 58th ISOCARP – International Society of City and Regional Planners World Planning Congress in Brussels.

AGORA partners from Eutropian, Urbasofia, Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije, and the Neckar-Alb Region are disseminating project’s work and results in three different presentations.

For example an AGORA case study was presented:

Multiplicity and Convergence in a low carbon industrial park – Test planning in the Neckar-Alb Region.

Test planning has been implemented by the Neckar-Alb Regional Association with the aim of developing different ideal planning scenarios for the construction of the first inter-municipal CO₂ reduced business and industrial park in the Neckar-Alb region.

On the 28th of July the kick-off meeting of the Smart and Cooperative Skills project was held in Madrid.

Although originally planned to be held in December 2021, due the Covid-19 situation the meeting was delayed but carried out successfully with the 9 partners.

During the first meeting, all the partners had a chance to present themselves and discuss the first steps and deadlines of the project with an emphasis on the first Project Results. The meeting went very well and we are excited to start working!

The goal of the project is to develop and disseminate a pedagogical method, based on the theoretical foundation of the “Didactic Digital materials” focused on life skills, aiming to prevent and/or to face the early school leaving phenomenon.