Where did we meet?
The kick-off meeting of GUIDE‘s team held last week on 26/01/2023 and 27/01/2023, in Denmark. GUIDE’s partners, met for the first time face to face in Aarhus. The meeting hosted SOSU, the leader partner of the project.
The project
GUIDE project began its journey just last November and focuses on helping career counselors to move away from biases based on traditional roles which can limit choices to ensure that equal opportunities are offered to all genders without taping the human talent and resources. The project will end in October 2025.
The meeting
The scheduled meeting of the partners, in Denmark, was very constructive and was carried out successfully. The partners manage to get to know each other and set their steps for its implementation. On the first day of the meeting, the partners presented their organizations, as well as how they all perceive professional guidance and what each organization does.
The partnership had the opportunity to meet a member from the National Agency of Denmark, Jonas Bæk, who presented and clarified various issues around monitoring and Erasmus+ projects (KA2). In addition, the partners had a tour to SOSU, where they had the opportunity to visit most of the campus. After the tour, the representatives of SOSU presented the content of the project, what should be produced through it and the role of each partner – organization.
DOMSPAIN then presented the plan for creating GUIDE’s first digital tool, and the team ended up planning their next steps. The partners discussed and set the appropriate deadlines in order to create the Digital Tool for identifying stereotypes in career decisions. In addition, on the same day, p-consulting.gr presented the plan for the creation of the second Digital Tool for Career Decision-Making Styles and the meeting closed after everyone summarized all of the above.
On the second day of the meeting, the partners had the opportunity to exchange views regarding:
- the impact that the project and its deliverables may have and
- the difficulties they may face.
Afterwards p-consulting.gr proceeded with the presentation of the project’s website as well as with the project’s promotion and dissemination plan, as it is an important part of it, as in this way it will be known to the target groups.
GUIDE to break down stereotypes and achieve equal opportunities in career guidance.
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