In July, the project team and the critical friends met online for the last time. An insightful exchange about the multiplier events that took place last month in Innsbruck, Valencia, Bergamo and Cologne followed. The project partners shared experiences, thoughts and perspectives gained during their events. The project teams discussed how the project results (online tool, handbook and toolbox) were perceived by the target group present at the events and what feedback they received. The concluding tasks aimed to support the final phase of the project were addressed. The Cologne project team would like to thank the project consortium for the friendly and collegial spirit during the project.

In February 2024, a fourth transnational meeting of the recovet project took place in Innsbruck, Austria. This meeting was used for a detailed exchange between the partners, especially with regard to the online survey that was about to be launched.  The survey was designed to gather feedback from the broad target group of evaluators and quality experts on the results of the RecoVET project - the online tool, the handbook and the toolbox. The feedback from the evaluators will allow to finalize the project results and start their wide dissemination. The meeting gave all project partners the opportunity to jointly design the media units of the online tool and make minor corrections to improve usability.

In addition, great emphasis was placed on the discussion of the multiplier events to be prepared by all project partners in their home countries. On the one hand, these multiplier events are intended to disseminate the project results in the national specialist circles of the respective countries. On the other hand, these events should become a platform for an informal exchange between the partners and the establishment of new contacts within the professional community dealing with the integration of refugees in the respective countries. The transnational meeting was rounded off with a tour led by representatives of a Fluchtpunkt organization. During the tour, the project participants gained a deep insight into the situation of refugees in Austria, legal procedures and the challenges of refugee integration into the labor market.

The project partners met online again before Christmas. There was an intensive exchange on the status of the project results. The partners also agreed on how to proceed with the online survey, which is intended to give the target group of evaluators the opportunity to test the online tool in conjunction with the handbook and toolbox in all four languages. Initially, the online survey questions will be revised by all project participants and finally the links to the respective national online surveys will be made available to the evaluators in each partner country in early 2024. This approach could allow the partners to use the winter months to get the valuable feedback from the target group.

The international RecoVET-team wishes all its members, associated partners, evaluators and other supporters a Merry Christmas and a successful New Year 2024!

In September 2023, the project partners met again online. During this exchange, they focused intensively on the work packages related to the translation of the content of the project results. The online tool will be available as a beta tool towards the end of 2023 after translation into three more languages (Italian, Spanish and German). This ambitious task requires a creative effort from all involved and a high level of communication and teamwork. Furthermore, the meeting served to inform the project partners about the online survey that will take place in winter 2023/24. At the third transnational project meeting in Valencia, the partners also agreed to create a series of additional media units to additionally visualise selected indicators. The first examples are already available and could be reviewed by the partners. 

From 31 May to 2 June 2023, the partners of the RecoVET project met in Valencia for the third transnational meeting. During this meeting, an exchange took place on the current status of the project as well as the progress within the individual parts of the project. In addition, the participants presented their concept for the chapter "Lessons learned" of the RecoVET handbook. In a joint workshop, general feedback on the online tool was elaborated in order to further improve the tool and its functions. In a second workshop, the project partners critically evaluated and discussed the online survey questions to assess the acceptance of the online tool among the target group. The highlight of the transnational meeting was a dissemination event at the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the University of Valencia, which was attended by Spanish representatives of the target group of evaluators and experts.  There, the project was comprehensively presented and an intensive exchange of views with the project's target group rounded off the project meeting.

On 10.05.2023 the project partners met again online for an intensive discussion and further development of the online tool. In addition, the meeting served to prepare the upcoming third transnational meeting, which will take place from 31.05. - 02.06.23 in Valencia. 
There, the opportunity will be taken to present the concept for the chapter "Lessons learned" in the RecoVET manual to all participants. Furthermore, a workshop on the learning units of the online tool is on the agenda. Another focus is the elaboration of the questions for the online survey on the acceptance of the online tool by the target group. At this meeting, there will also be an overarching exchange on the current project status and the progress of the individual work packages.
 

On 15.02.2023 another digital meeting of the project partners took place. In the meeting, the partners primarily discussed the online tool and the manual. The creation of the online tool is being pushed forward in great steps by all project partners. At the meeting, the first complete learning units were demonstrated and tested. The partners also gave each other feedback on the learning units shown. In addition, there was a lively exchange on technical questions that arose during the creative phase of creating the tool. Furthermore, the drafts of the manual pages were discussed. Currently, fifty percent of the drafts already exist. Last but not least, the continuation of the work on the elements of the toolbox was also discussed.

From 14th to 16th November 2022, the RecoVET project partners met in Bergamo in the framework of the 2nd transnational meeting. An intensive exchange was enriched by highly informative contributions from the single partner universities. Thus, the project partners from Valencia spoke about their experiences in creating the animated videos. Furthermore, the University of Bergamo gave a valuable review of the creation of the European handbook in the preceding project GoodVET and the University of Innsbruck outlined their experiences in the area of project dissemination. Besides, all partners participated in a workshop to create the content for the toolbox that will be part of the project results. The lively and enriching discussions of the partners were rounded off by the involvement and assessment of the process by the critical friends of the project. The working packages and deadlines were set. The focus of the partners' work in the coming months will concentrate on the creation of the media units for the English version of the online tool and on the elaboration of the indicators for the content of the RecoVET manual and the tools that could be included in the RecoVET toolbox. A subsequent online meeting in mid-February 2023 will provide another opportunity for an intensive exchange on the project's progress.

On July 19, 2022, the next digital project meeting was held, attended by all project partners. The meeting was explicitly dedicated to the further development of the online tool. Partners presented their approach to the quality indicators they have worked on so far and exchanged ideas with other team members. Critical friends of the project were also present and enriched the plenary with their feedback and contributions. The importance of embedding the quality indicators in the evaluation framework was emphasized, as well as the need for a common understanding of terms such as "evidence" for each step of the online tool. The meeting was a supportive activity to help partners better navigate the theoretical framework in the process of creating practical content for the online tool. The meeting served as preparation for another online meeting planned for September 2022 and for the second transnational meeting in Bergamo in November 2022. 
 

On May 02-04 2022 the first "Transnational Project Meeting" took place in Cologne which was attended by all project partners. The time was intensively used to bring all project partners from all partner countries to the same level of knowledge through presentations and plenary discussions. A common understanding for the core terms in the project content could be discussed and settled. On this stage the focus has been set on the development of the online training tool. To facilitate the creation of the online content a master plan for the next months was designed and the working packages were assigned to partners. 

On March 25, 2022, the kick-off meeting of the project partners from Spain, Italy, Austria and Germany took place, which was held digitally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although not a substitute for the first transnational meeting, the kick-off meeting was a good joint start to the RecoVET research project. During the meeting, a first presentation of the project and its structure took place. Reference was made to the predecessor project GoodVET and the general objectives and intended results were presented. Furthermore, the time schedule and the general conditions regarding administration and funding were presented. The relevant quality indicators of the project were discussed. All participants look forward to the beginning collaboration and the first transnational meeting, which will take place in Cologne from 02 to 04 May 2022.