Face to Face Multiplier Events in Latvia
Type of Multiplier Event: Seminar
Organizing Institution: Riga State Technical School
The City of the seminar is Riga, Latvia
Goals of the Seminar:
- To transfer PPR1(Products of Project Results1) and PPR2 to the target group as face to face
- To monitor, assess, evaluate and update the products of the project results by getting the critical ideas of the invited people who are professional in their fields,
- To increase the awareness of the teachers, trainers, instructors, VET training authorities, VET training centres, universities and people who work in the field of special education on the students with learning difficulties, disabilities and disorders,
- To increase the efforts to meet the needs of the people who are related with the education of the students with learning disorders or disabilities, especially in the Covid-19 times,
- To increase the area covered by academic institutions in national and international studies,
- To promote and share the outputs of the project by communicating and cooperating with the target groups,
- To contribute to the development of technologies in VET education in Turkey and other partner countries as well as other European countries,
- To let the participants know about European Union funds and Erasmus+ opportunities.
The main subjects of the Seminar: Introducing the products of the project results;
The number of participants is: 60
Duration is 200 minutes,
Target Groups: The organisations that work for the students with learning disabilities, the public and private education authorities, academicians, and other educational organisations, representatives of the sector that operate in digitalisation, IT technologies.
All invited people,60 persons, will be determined 45 days before the activity time to ensure the existence of them in time. We will send them an invitation that includes the name of the seminar, the content, the duration, and the seminar's place. The attendance status of any attendant will be checked and confirmed before the seminar takes place. If the Covid-19 continues at that time of the year, the required precautions will be taken. We have already a covid-19 contingency plan for the seminar.
Additionally, we will also organise a virtual multiplier event for the people who are not able to attend a face to face seminar. The minimum number of virtual multiplier event is 100. However, if this number is exceeded, additional guests will be welcome.
Each participant of the multiplier events will get an info pack that includes the contents, flow, speakers, activities, break times, and other seminar details. There will be three sessions during the seminar.
The First Session of Seminar:
Duration: 80 minutes,
-Opening speech by Ms Dagnija Vanaga, who is the director of the "Riga State Technical School",
-Valuable speech by some other local and foreign guests,
- Transferring the project outputs to the invited people by considering the goals, outputs, general aim of the project as well as the situation of the students with learning difficulties before and after the project activities,
Coffee break (15 minutes)
The second session of the Seminar;
Duration: 80 minutes,
Our project has two project outputs, both of which will fill different gaps in the VET field. The Social-Vet 4.0 social/education platform will be very useful and innovative for improving students' learning difficulties. The content, signing up, and using the e-platform will be demonstrated to the invited peoples.
The Pedagogical Games for Coding For the Students With Learning Disabilities in VET Organisations includes different games which teach how to code a program from scratch to higher levels. The games will be able to be played online as well as offline. Thus, the volunteers among invited people using their smartphones or tablets will play each of the pedagogical games. The applied demonstration will leave a strong impact on the participants because they will see what and how the students with learning difficulties learn from games.
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
The second session of the Seminar;
Duration: 40 minutes,
The seminar's final session will have been allocated as a question and answer session. First and foremost, the seminar attendees will ask the coordinator organisation official questions about the project and its outputs during this session. As a result, there will be no doubts about the events and outcomes. The professional feedback from all invitees to contribute to the development of the outputs will be taken in the recommendations session.
The seminar will assist in the creation of suitable conditions for long-term success after the funding period has ended. The seminar will provide an opportunity for all of the target groups and actors included in this application to meet and exchange good practices in the field of VET development as well as to form potential collaborations on mutually beneficial topics.
