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We think that the previous preparation of the participants for their internship is of great importance in order to live a successful mobility experience abroad.

The VIRGIL-MOB online course goes in that direction, as well as our personalized Welcome Meeting presentation.

Each group that steps into our office is welcomed by their ESMOVIA tutor in the Welcome Meeting.

During the years we have improved and adapted the information that participants receive in their first meeting with ESMOVIA, paying always attention to our participants’ profile as well as their feedbacks.

The Welcome Meeting presentation takes place the following day after participants’ arrival. It is composed of 4 different sections where the staff of ESMOVIA explain all necessary aspects connected with their stay in Valencia:

1.) What is this all about?

In the first section of the meeting with their Group Coordinator, participants are informed about:

  • Presentation of ESMOVIA
  • Programme
  • The people they will be in contact with and who to contact in different situations
  • Services foreseen
  • The ESMOVIA handbook and the documents to fill in

2.) Tips for free time

Participants are also informed about cultural activities and tips to enjoy their free time and take the most of their stay in Valencia.

3.) Traineeship Preparation

The Work Placement Coordinator leads the traineeship induction. With this completely interactive session, we prepare the participants for their internship, helping them to reflect on their value, the skills they possess, what they can offer to the company, make them conscious of their capacities, and believe in themselves.

It foresees:

  1. Information on working places and foreseen tasks
  2. Self-awareness dynamics to identify participants’ objectives, skills and expectations
  3. Useful communication tools

We are always positively pleased and surprised to discover some hidden talents, passions and interests that this session brings to the surface.

4.) Easy Spanish

Finally, we involve students in a short language Spanish course with basic and necessary words and expressions, like a survival kit that all participants need to know for their daily life and in the companies. Students are involved in dynamic activities recreating real situations.

Now everyone is ready to start the internship experience!

On July 10th and 11th, 2023, ESMOVIA and fellow European Partners, Universidad Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT), the University of Applied Labour Studies of the Federal Employment Agency HdBA (DE), and Institute of Research and Information on Volunteering IRIV (FR), met for the third Transnational Meeting in Augsburg, Germany, as part of our KA2 Erasmus European Project EMoCC – European Mobility Career Counseling.

EMoCC project is a KA2 Erasmus project that aims at promoting European job mobility by providing adequate training to Career Counselors in the form of 2 different massive open online courses (MOOC).

Leading up to this meeting, each partner was working hard on the development of their assigned units, and we were able to enjoy the fruits of our labor in this meeting, by sharing and celebrating the work we had done, to continue moving forward and improving.

Partners presented the video lessons they had made for our first MOOC, focused on Career Counseling, and technical questions arose and were debated. Information is continued to be collected by partners, to design and organize the video content and the units production. Big advancements were made, and a plan was set for the next steps moving forward.

On the other hand, partners obtained clarity on our second massive open online course of our project. A proposal was made and accepted by all partners, with clear intentions of the work distribution load for this second MOOC, which is focused on European job mobility.

A final part of the meeting was dedicated to show the progress in the dissemination strategy. Getting to know the project will be essential in the next steps when MOOC’s will be ready and will have to be tested by externals.

The city of Augsburg was a beautiful place to hold this meeting, with a lot of history to learn and celebrate. We are quite happy to be moving forward in the construction phase, and the next update we give will be the launch of our pilot MOOC for Career Counseling!! Make sure to stay up to date so you can be one of the first to take the course when it’s ready.

More information on EMoCC project can be found at https://emocc.eu.