IVEPE-SEV participated in the first meeting of the DIVET Project that was organized in Athens on 28th February and 1st March 2019.

DIVET – Joint Qualification for Export Specialists Via Internet and Social Media is an Erasmus+ Project that will be implemented during the period December 2018 - December 2020.

This project aims:

• to develop the skills of young people interested to work in the field of internet based and social media exports in order to help them increase their employability and
• to provide enterprises with trained professionals that have all the necessary skills to cover the needs modern market.

In the kick-off meeting, after a general introduction, partners discussed the main outcomes of the project, as long as the special objectives, the intellectual outputs and the project quality monitoring. Main themes of the meeting were also online learning material that aims to develop the export skills based on internet and social media.

The project is going to be implemented in the three countries: Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. Pilot trainings will take place after the development of online learning material, throughout the two years of the project and it is expected to involve 80 VET students and 80 SMEs working in the field of exports and willing to follow the digital transformation.

At the end of the project, it is expected that the VET students will increase significantly their knowledge, skills and competencies in the sector and that the SMEs will be more engaged in apprenticeship and will be able to find more easily employees with the required skills.

For more information about DIVET Project please visit: http://divet.eu/