The official kick-of-meeting of the SkillHelp project

June 20, 2022
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 ASSIST Software - The official kick-of-meeting of the SkillHelp project

While work on our EU-funded projects is constantly carried out in the background, we occasionally update you on our progress by highlighting major events and outcomes. 

Therefore, we are proud to announce you that on the 30th and 31st of May 2022, the SkillHelp consortium got together for the first time in Lublin, Poland, at the headquarters of Euro Lider, to mark the official launch of the project. 

We remind you that the main objective of this Erasmus+ project is to enhance social workers’ soft skills, while emphasizing the emotional and psychological dimensions of the services they provide and strengthening their relationships with people who benefit from social assistance. 

After having successfully collaborated for the past few months, this was a great opportunity for partners to decide upon key aspects of upcoming tasks related to the three intellectual outputs, to ensure a smooth project implementation, in line with the planned timeframe.  

Extensive discussions focused on the diagnostics tool designed to assess the soft skills of social workers. Each partner was tasked with creating assessment questions for two soft skills as part of the psychometric tests: empathy, stress and burnout resilience, building interpersonal relations, efficiency and organization skills, communication, ethics in social work, mediation and conflict resolution, ability to empower and motivate, negotiation skills and assertiveness. ASSIST Software is in charge of developing the online diagnostics tool, in close collaboration with the other partners. 

Based on the competencies mentioned above, partners will create a compelling online course fostering soft skills improvement, available on the eLearning platform ASSIST will design and develop in the upcoming period. Details concerning the course, with various content types – videos, practical activities and exercises – will be discussed at the meeting in Volos in early September 2022. This will also serve as an opportunity to exchange good practices in the field of social work.  

Additionally, the kick-off-meeting covered quality and risk management aspects, project dissemination activities and financial and administrative reporting issues, crucial in the implementation of the project. 

Stay tuned for more exciting news about the SkillHelp project!

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