LEO-NET Annual Seminar 2023, Bratislava, Slovakia

LEO-NET Annual Seminar 2023, Bratislava, Slovakia

Let’s explore new geographical horizons regarding internship, gain new insights about virtual internships, future-oriented skills and inclusion on the work floor. Let’s learn why mental balance of interns is important as well as for ourselves.

Discover the role of regional traineeship mobility consortia and how we want to interconnect them.

This time in the beautifull city of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

Many thanks to the host organization, Workspace Europe, the Slovak Consortium of Universities specializing in Erasmus internship mobilities.

Contact:

LEO-NET secretariat   –    info@leo-net.org   –  ( +31402474336 / +31651541168

Host:

Workspace Europe

Venue:

Falkensteiner Hotel Bratislava
Pilárikova ulica 5
SK-811 03 Bratislava

Tel +421 2 2101196 0

April 20

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 10:00: Opening seminar

  • Welcome by Karol Ovesný, Workspace Europe (Slovakia)
  • Introduction to the seminar by the LEO-NET Board

10:00 – 11:00:  Why going for a traineeship in Slovakia & the Central and Eastern European region.

  • Anastasiia Shevchenko, Placement Slovakia programme (Slovakia)
  • Sergio Molla Garcia, foreign trainee in Slovakia (Spain)

Let us explore the several aspects why Slovakia is an interesting destination for your students to go on traineeships and gain professional skills and an unforgettable life experience. The session will include examples of successful stories as well as peculiarities of going for traineeships in Central & Eastern Europe from the point of view from both the host companies as foreign trainees.

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30:  Virtual Internship Academy – a new EU supported project to help Students, Host organisations and Universities introduce, manage and successfully complete Virtual Internships.

  • Karol Ovesný, Workspace Europe (Slovakia)
  • John David, Amnick Social Enterprise (UK)

Within this session the new recently completed project of 6 partner organisations, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union in the area of digital education will be introduced. The Virtual Internship Academy offers students, companies and universities a free access to online course learning modules in the area of virtual internships and remote work. These modules are specifically prepared by professionals in the field to provide necessary knowledge and basic peculiarities about remote work, management and completion of virtual internships.

12:30 – 13:15: Competence Pass – a compass for development of future skills during an Erasmus traineeship abroad?

  • Thomas Berger, Institut inter.research e.V. (Germany)

Let us explore how online reflective practice can support students’ future skills development during a traineeship abroad. The Competence Pass (CP) developed and piloted by our consortium, the Network for Erasmus-Traineeships and University Business Coop., will be introduced and discussed as a tool for developing students’ competences through reflection. You will leave the session with a copy of CP which you can adapt to your needs in order to empower your students’ future skills development.

13:15 – 14:15: lunch

14:15 – 15:45: How to set your goals

  • Martina Vysluzilova, Transformational Coach (Spain)

How to set your goals so that you avoid a burnout, broken relationships, bad health and financial and emotional bankruptcy? Designed to challenge you to master yourself, this interactive presentation will provide you with the opportunity to learn the latest discoveries in neuroscience, epigenetics and quantum physics and deepen your understanding of how you create your reality with your mind through your choices. In 90 min of theory and practice you will learn HOW TO SET YOUR GOALS to create success with your wealth, health, love or fulfillment without struggle and elevate your life to what you now might consider impossible.

15:45 – 16:15: coffee break

16:15 – 17:00: LEO-NET member meeting

18:30 – 21:30: Cooking workshop/dinner at THE NOOK Restaurant

April 21

09:30 – 10:30: The importance of the well-being of trainees

  • (Speaker to be confirmed)

Being a student is more than just studying. The time students spend in higher education involves integral personal development. Studying offers opportunities, but also many personal challenges. An internship is a learning situation that may bring additional incentives and challenges, also for young graduates. The session will give insight in the importance of prevention and detection of emotional coping by 18-24 year olds in the frame of public mental health care. Which role could there be for internship supervisors at early signal detection? How to respond if the supervisor’s ‘feelers’ tells that the trainee may be struggling with something? How to briefly engage with trainees; how & where to refer if the trainee needs help before, during or after an internship.

The session includes also a presentation of good practices in Flanders (Belgium).

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00:Erasmus+ Programme 2021-2027: state of art

  • Johannes Gehringer, European Commission, DG Education, Youth, Sport & Culture / Higher Education (Belgium)

Mr. Gehringer will present the state of art of the present Erasmus+ Programme, especially for traineeship mobility. After a few years we have experienced the improvements and challenges. This session is a great opportunity for discussion and Q&A’s.

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 15:00: Present trends in companies regarding inclusion of their staff

  • (Name company and speaker to be confirmed)

15:00 – 16:45: Erasmus+ Consortia

  • Sophia Siegfried and Mrs. Susanne Friedemann, EU-Praktikum THURINGEN (Germany)
    In Germany most of Erasmus+ SMPs are run within a consortia. This session will provide you with the overview of consortia work. Including the advantages in application and organizational implementation as well as the status of a consortium within the state government. Also important is the position of a consortium towards its own National Agency. The presentation will show the possibilities of setting up and composing consortia as well as the advantages and disadvantages.
  • LEO-NET board

2013 is the date of the former (paper) directory of mobility consortia. So now in 2023 it is due  time for a thorough (online) update. The why, goal and call for action to contribute to the search/identification of current consortia will be explained.

16:45 – 17:00:

Wrap up & Closing

April 19

A tour of the biggest and oldest state University in Slovakia with a brief presentation of their international activities.

  • 16:00: Bratislava School of Liberal Arts , an example of a Slovak modern/innovative private university

A tour of a small modern private University representing the new/innovative ways of higher education with a brief presentation of their international activities.

April 19

  • 20:00: Meet & Greet your trainees

Participants can invite their trainees, who are at that moment in Bratislava or nearby, for a drink offered by LEO-NET and listen to their traineeship experiences.
(more details and location will follow later on)