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ProSkill Project Coordinator Tamás Bakó from the University of Miskolc participated in an education fair in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 18 November 2023, organised by the Begin Group. Tamás Bakó had the opportunity to include the ProSkill project in his presentation to approximately 200 interested people.

In addition, during the fair, the ProSkill Project Coordinator could distribute promotional Proskill brochures to those fair attendees interested in becoming students of the University of Miskolc. The brochure distributed showcases the talent-management activities organised thanks to the ProSkill project.

EFG President David Govoni and Interim Director of Stakeholder Engagement Maureen represented the European Federation of Geologists at the 60th anniversary of the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) that took place from September 16th to 19th in Covington, Kentucky.

AIPG generously extended the opportunity to the European Federation of Geologists (EFG) to set up a booth, enabling the Federation to showcase its diverse range of activities. This platform was particularly valuable for introducing EFG’s EU-funded projects, including the ProSkill project.

The Erasmus+ project TRiPGiFT organised the second online event ‘Training pupils on geosciences through Virtual Field Trips’ on 9 May 2023. As the event focused on geoscience education, the ProSkill Coordinator Tamás Bakó was invited to give a presentation on the lessons learnt thanks to the ProSkill project that can be applied to other projects.

The TRiPGiFT online event was 4 hours long and different experts on geoscience education and virtual reality provided interesting presentations on related topics (see agenda).

The TRiPGiFT project will provide new tools for teaching and promoting geoscience education. Three Virtual Field Trips will be developed for understanding geological-geomorphological features, marble mining and extreme weather events accompanied by corresponding new educational material.

The second TRiPGiFT online event was recorded and it is available at the following links:

-Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCVEKsyc6I

-Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkvKYyn6IgQ

The ProSkill guest lectures have aimed at enhancing the soft and hard skills of students to achieve higher competitiveness in the international market. The most relevant soft skills for the raw materials sector were identified by conducting interviews and questionnaires with industrial managers within Workpackage 3: Building community among partners – development of a skill ecosystem. The results of this research have been taken into account by project partner universities for planning the guest lectures.

Guest lecture 2 by the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava of the Slovak University of Technology: Stellantis presentation by Martinom Dzamon and visit to the factory

Each partner university has been organising guest lectures between 2021 and 2022. Most of the lectures were organised in the different national languages: Slovak, Czech, Hungarian and Polish. Due to the pandemic, some of the lectures were online instead of in person.

Guest lecture 3 by Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava of the Slovak University of Technology: Presentation by Martin Foltin

The topics of the lectures were related to the soft and hard skills needed in the raw materials sector, such as project management, soft skills in practice, social media management or the skills needed in the industry – with presentations from companies like Siemens, BMW and Stellantis.

Guest lecture 3 by the Silesian University of Technology: Presentation by Adam Bosowski

You can find some of the presentation slides of the guest lectures in the ‘Resources’ section of the ProSkill website.