Press Release #3
Third Transnational Project Meeting, 17-18 December 2019, Rzeszów, Poland

The 3rd Transnational Meeting of DICE (Erasmus+, KA202, 2018) took place on 17-18 December 2019, in Rzeszów, Poland, bringing together partners from Cyprus, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland.

DICE aims at creating an open and accessible training package for professionals working with newcomers, on issues such as Diversity, Inclusion, Citizenship, and Empowerment.

The meeting focused on the final steps regarding IO1, the future steps regarding IO2 and IO3, and on relevant decisions. More specifically, the partnership discussed the finalisation of the DICE Training Material and the development of the relevant Training Manual (IO1), certain issues on the E-learning Platform (IO2), and the first steps for the development of the Feasibility and Impact Guide on Methods for the Recognition and Validation of Integration Competences (IO3). Also, the coordinator (Eurocircle organisation from France) announced the beginning of the project Awareness Campaign and deadlines for the aforementioned tasks and outputs were set.

M.M.C., as leading partner of IO3, presented to partners some key points on IO3 and discussed with them the development of the Guide, with focus on the content of its first part as well as on the validation methods that will be presented in the second Local Pilot Tests/Laboratories of the project related to IO3. Also, as partner responsible for the monitoring of the dissemination activities of the project, M.M.C. presented to partners the results of the previous dissemination period and made some remarks regarding the next dissemination activities.

The DICE project is funded with the support of the European Commission.