SkillHelp Second Transnational Partners Meeting in Sofia

The Erasmus+ SkillHelp project has made significant progress in recent months, bringing it one step closer to meeting its objectives. The project's latest developments were thoroughly assessed and evaluated during the second transnational partners' meeting which was hosted by the Know&Can Association on February 21st and 22nd, 2023 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

During the first day of the meeting, the consortium discussed the status of the three intellectual outputs of the project: 

• IO1 - an online diagnostic tool for the assessment of social workers’ soft skills;
• IO2 – an eLearning platform fostering the improvement of soft skills and hosting both the assessment tool and the online course;
• IO3 - an online course designed to equip social workers with digital tools and resources, enabling them to enhance their critical soft skills when working with individuals facing social exclusion.

ASSIST presented the soft skills assessment tool, which has already been integrated on the eLearning platform and is available in Polish, Greek, Spanish and Bulgarian. Developed and tested in close collaboration with social workers, this tool evaluates the answers provided by users and then returns a feedback message informing users on their skill level. Some of the skills that the consortium is aiming to evaluate and enhance are empathy, building personal relations, communication, mediation, and conflict resolution.

ASSIST Software also presented a short demo of the eLearning platform and discussed the technical requirements for the upload of online courses. Following the presentation of the course content prepared by project partners, the consortium decided on the templates to be used to ensure the coherence of the ten courses corresponding to the ten explored soft skills.

The second day of the meeting was primarily dedicated to administrative tasks, quality assurance, and project dissemination, thereby tackling all the items on the meeting agenda.

The SkillHelp consortium will have the opportunity to meet again in late August, in the beautiful city of Valencia, Spain.