European Development Agency

As part of the Smart and Skills project, the objective of the this first phase is to provide teachers with engaging digital materials targeted specially for SEN students (students with special necessities) created by the partners. 

This teaching being developed by the partners materials will tackle the issues of everyday life by putting it in the context of cooperative learning. Smart and Skills partners want to help create teaching methods that are effective and adapt to today’s technology as a form of education, with the ultimate goal of implementing the developed materials.  

Let’s shape the future of education together! 

Have you ever heard of digital footprints before? In simple words, every time you visit a website, make a search, post on social media, or send an email, you leave behind a piece of information that can be collected and tracked. This information can be used to understand your online habits and activities. Digital footprints are the record of your activities on the internet. 

In March 13.03.2023 – 19.03.2023, Behave Your Prints project invited young people to attend a training in Tirana, Albania. This 5-day training included activities aimed at making participants better understand digital footprints and see what could be the consequences for their entry into professional life. 

In total, 24 young people coming from 6 different countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia) attended this training.

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.