All the Digital Wood Artisan partners were thrilled when arranging the date for the 4th transnational meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus! There is a very positive working atmosphere between all the partners, that is reflected in the qualitative results produced until now, and living 2 days together in such a wonderful place would have made this bound even stronger!

Still, months passed by and the situation of the virus started to affect our lives and change all our plans, both personals and professionals. This situation obliged the DWA partners to analyze the various alternatives and to choose the one that presented less safety risks and that would allow us to follow the objectives of the project without too many modifications.

All this led the 6 partners of the project to an online transnational meeting on the 6th of May 2020, 3 days before the Europe Day! More than ever, this meeting was also an occasion to celebrate the unity in Europe!

Choosing the perfect location in our homes, charging the computer, taking off our pyjamas and putting on our best clothes for the occasion replaced all the other preparations actions that we were used to, such as printing our boarding passes, saving our presentation on a pendrive, going to the airport, taking a flight to the meeting place, searching how to reach the hotel and the venue of the meeting.

Meeting time arrived and we all connected with our audio and camera, happy to see each other even on a computer screen! The most important thing in this situation is that we were all safe!

The meeting ran smoothly, all partners could present their work and good news were shared: the dissemination strategy is giving good results, our project is reaching every day more and more people through the social media and the website!

In the end the partners decided to wait for better health conditions in order to organize the short term joint staff training event foreseen in Oporto. They all agreed to use this next period of time, in which we can’t travel, to work on the training, prepare interactive material and run a qualitative selection process of the participants.

It is great to work with such wonderful people that in these hard times are able to make the best out of the situation! That gives us all the positive energy we need to keep on working!

Until we see each other again in September, please check our website updates  https://dwa-project.eu and follow us on facebook and Instagram!

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On January 24th and 25th 2024, ESMOVIA hosted the fourth Transnational Meeting in Valencia, Spain with our fellow European partners, Universidad Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT), the University of Applied Labor Studies of the Federal Employment Agency HdBA (DE), and the Institute of Research and Information on Volunteering IRIV (FR). This meeting forms a part of our KA2 Erasmus European project EMoCC – European Mobility for Career Counseling.

Our EMoCC project aims at promoting European job mobility by providing adequate training to Career Counselors in the form of 2 different massive open online courses (MOOC). Our prestigious team is multi-disciplinary, and our accumulated knowledge and expertise is resulting in a very high value product being created.

In this transnational meeting, we brought together the results and feedback of the first two project results, and embedded it into the MOOC on European mobility creation, to make it stronger and even more aligned with our future course users. We shared our progress on the dissemination of our project and continued to commit ourselves to further share the message, to reach as many potential users as possible. Through creative processes, shared discussions, and personal debates, partners have decided on the content of this second MOOC and the workflow and strategy, something we are proud to announce as we step into this last phase. We want our product to reach as many eyes as possible!

Want to know more about EMoCC?

The following results are foreseen in the project:

Project Result 1 – AtoM and WoMSA: We started with a qualitative study “AToM, Attitude Toward Moving,” which aimed to understand personal attitude and motivation towards mobility, through the means of individual interviews and focus groups. This information was then used to design a quantitative study, “WoMSA, Work Mobility Skills and Attitude Scale,” a questionnaire dispatched for individuals and counselors to better understand themselves within competences, motivation, and satisfaction inside a mobility experience. This questionnaire is a huge added value of this project, as it is a useful tool to implement in many different professional sectors across counseling and teaching. This phase was led by Universidad Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
To carry out WoMSA questionnaire go to www.emocc.eu/womsa

Project Result 2 – MOCC on Career Counseling: We created the first MOOC, massive open online course, a 30-hour training, composed of many different media elements, to upskill the abilities of counselors. Each partner contributed their expertise within the topics. A continued testing phase is being carried out by users from all countries. This phase was led by the University of Applied Labor Studies of the Federal Employment Agency, HdBA.
To enroll in the “MOOC in Career Counseling” go to https://app.emocc.eu/

Project Result 3 – MOOC on European Mobility: We are excited to announce that we are currently starting the last phase of the project, our second MOOC. A 30-hour training, composed of different media elements, training already qualified counselors, to become European mobility experts, to help inspire increased movement. We are now in the creation stage. This phase is being led by ESMOVIA.