On Monday 17 July, we met as a wider team to check how the project is progressing. Together with Dr. Mitjo Sardoč and Prof. Dr. Tomaž Deželan, we checked how the project is progressing, assessed the steps taken so far and planned the next steps. This included a review of the analysis of textbooks and curricula, the analysis of interviews with civic education teachers, which were combined with a survey aimed at the same target group - both of which served to verify needs and to prepare a strategy. A similar workshop will be held in less than a year and external experts will be involved at that time as well.

Researchers from the University of Groningen and the University of Ljubljana met for a co-creation session to discuss the draft guideline for trainers in HE and in industry for implementing high-quality eWBL. The meeting was hosted by University of Ljubljana. The results of the discussion has indicated that while there are some disadvantages and challenges of implementing WBL remotely, there are also several solutions available that could offset some of the challenges. The leaders of the work package leaders stated that “with the support of the framework that they are developing, they aim to highlights not only the advantages of eWBL (flexibility, lower costs, digital competencies) but also the ways in which the disadvantages can be minimized”. The framework divides eWBL in five stages: design, preparation, onboarding, delivery, and assessment. Each stage is filled out with several theoretical and practical recommendations from literature and data collected in work package 1. The framework will be soon available for download in the project website. As remote work is becoming more popular, there is an increasing need for a robust pedagogical and technological model for “eWBL” that meets all the criteria for qualitative implementation and the delivery of the eWBL. It is within this context that eWBL project is conceived and implemented. The project aims to generate knowledge and provide guidance on how to deliver high quality eWBL from both a pedagogical and technological perspective.

The Science to Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) has officially launched the ERASMUS+ project eWBL (work-based learning). An online kick-off meeting was held on 28 January 2022. The meeting was organised and hosted by S2BMRC as the project's lead partner. It was also attended by delegates from all partner institutions: the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The Netherlands); Momentum Business Consulting & Marketing Services limited (Ireland); University of Ljubljana (Slovenia); Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy); and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Srl. (Italy). FH Münster and S2BMRC were represented by Jun. Prof. Dr. Sue Rossano-Rivero, Deputy Director of S2BMRC, and Habtamu Garomssa, Project Coordinator, and Luise Henßler, Project Assistant.

On Friday, 11 December 2021, the Brežice Youth Centre hosted an international conference on the quality and professionalisation of youth work. The conference was the final event of the Erasmus+ strategic partnership project "Supporting Evidence-based Education of Youth Workers" to raise the quality of youth work. It was addressed to youth workers from Croatia and Slovenia. Representatives of the project partners, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Rijeka (UNIRI), the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (IDIZ) and the University of Ljubljana (UL), informed the youth workers present about the results of the project, which analysed the curricula of Slovenian and Croatian higher education institutions and asked them to identify which curricula include topics directly related to youth work and the competences of youth workers. The findings of the researchers point to a critical lack of educational content on youth work in both countries.