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Transnational Project Meetings
The transnational project meetings (M1-5) of INCOPS are events organised by one of the project's participating organisations with the purpose of project implementation and coordination.
M1: Transnational Project Meeting - Online Kick-off Meeting (23.02.2021)
This meeting was organised by Utrecht and had to take place online. M1 provided the consortium members with the opportunity to further elaborate on the expectations and responsibilities of the project based on the final project approval.
The focus of this meeting was a) exchange of consortium members’ rights and duties based on the grant approval notification (e.g. reporting duties, deadlines, etc.) as well as the quality assurance plan (qualitative and quantitative benchmarks and measures) or the progress report template and b) the final agreements on details concerning each partner’s project responsibilities and the transition between and interlocking of individual contributions.
Photo: Stéphane Voell / Screenshot Cisco WebexM2: Transnational Project Meeting in Marburg (17.11.2021)
Photo: Lara Sander This first face-to-face meeting was organised by Marburg and designed as a two-day event. M2 provided the consortium members with the opportunity to strengthen the common ground for future cooperation and further discuss the latest progress as well as future procedure in the project.
The meeting was aiming at a) providing impulses for the guiding questions of the project also with regards to the impact of the Covid-19-pandemic, b) coordinating necessary preparations for the completion of the project’s first interim report and c) discussing the latest progress of Intellectual Output 2, its research priorities and procedure in the coming weeks.
In addition, the partners presented the project and its progress at an off-project conference on practice transfer in teaching in peace and conflict research in Marburg.M3: Transnational Project Meeting - Interim Meeting in Cluj (03.03.2022)
Photo: Andreea Bianca Urs This meeting was organised by Cluj and likewise combined with the second Learning, Teacing, Training Activity. M3 provided the consortium members with the opportunity to exchange and elaborate on stakeholders’ needs and competences with regard to WBL activities in the integration of theory and practice in the field of peace, conflict and security studies.
The meeting’s focus lied on a) exchanging preliminary results of the focus group interviews regarding Intellectual Output 2, b) outlining stakeholder-specific needs and competences concerning best practices in internships and other WBL activities and c) coordinating the planned progress and necessary timeline this year.
Moreover, research results on WBL competences were presented by researchers of the Babeș-Bolyai University and were discussed with the partners. Furthermore, the partners took part in a Delphi method analysis on acquiring competences through internships according to the goals of UN Global Citizenship Education.M4: Transnational Project Meeting - Interim Meeting in Coimbra (27.03.2023)
Photo: Stéphane Voell This meeting took place in Coimbra, Portugal, in combination with the fifth Learning, Teaching and Training Activity from 27 March 2023 to 29 March 2023.
The meeting was aiming at a) providing impulses for the development of policy recommendations, b) coordinating necessary preparations for the completion of the project in August 2023 and c) discussing the latest progress of Intellectual Output 4 to 6 and its procedures in the coming weeks.
As the project is running for its final few months, M4 provided the opportunity to the partners to agree on finalizing procedures and deadlines of the outstanding intellectual outputs. A specific focus laid on finalizing IO4 on Service Learning as a model of Work-Based Learning (WBL), and IO5 on ethical and security concerns of WBL in practice. Moreover, first ideas for the policy brief in IO6 were discussed in the consortium. For this, partners also exchanged ideas on outputs and dissemination products that will be useful beyond the project run time.
In addition, the INCOPS partners discussed the closing conference coming up in July 2023 in Marburg, Germany.
Besides, the partners unanimously confirmed their interest in continuing the collaboration in the future and discussed several options.M5: Transnational Project Meeting - Closing Meeting in Marburg (13.07.2023)
Photo: Stéphane Voell This meeting took place in Marburg, Germany, in combination with the final Learning, Teaching and Training Activity (LTTA) and the Closing Conference from 13 July 2023 to 15 July 2023.
The meeting was aiming at a) providing the opportunity to elaborate on final duties and activities as the project will end soon on 31 August 2023, b) evaluating the consortium activities during the project run time and c) discussing possible future cooperation opportunities of the project’s consortium.
With the project slowly but surely coming to an end, during M4 partners discussed outstanding issues with regard to the finalization processes of our project’s outputs and findings as well as dissemination options beyond the project. A specific focus was on finalizing IO6, the policy brief for integrating Work-Based Learning (WBL) in Peace, Conflict and Security studies (PCS). While the partners from Cluj presented the first draft and their ideas for specific recommendations, the meeting offered a great opportunity to outline additional synergies and underline the holistic approach in the integration of theory in practice in our field.
Moreover, the partners agreed on the next Steering Committee Meeting after the official end of the project to advance further publications and dissemination products unanimously confirming the interest in continuing the collaboration in the future.
