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Completion of our project & last newsletter

We have completed a journey of 2,5 years and have prepared all our intellectual outputs! Please check our last newsletter for more info

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Final Project Meeting in Cyprus

We met in Cyprus for the final project meeting to make a final review of all the deliverables and to work on the final report for the project. Now our focus is on disseminating our platform and on keeping our project "alive" even after its end in June! We are very proud for the progress made!

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Our last training activity took place in Romania with success!

Teachers and students from the 4 partner school met in Romania and the beautiful Bran from 19-25 January 2023 to reflect on all the "lessons learned" from the training experiences of the project, as well as to test the skills development in core topics, such as eLearning, formal and informal learning, outdoor learning, emotional and sensorial learning, among other topics.

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The D-MANeD project has achieved to sign "Letters of Commitment" with 14 organizations

After completing the training courses, the D-MANeD partners disseminated the project and its training activities to their networks and we are extremely proud to report that we have signed "letters of commitment" with 14 more education and youth organizations who join as associated partners.

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The last two trainings from our teachers' perspective!

We were very happy to receive two videos from one of our teachers who participated in the training courses "visual arts and theater" (held in Cyprus) and "movement, music, dance and rhetoric" (held in Athens). Check them out to see how he experienced these trainings! Thank you Alexis!

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Our 4th Newsletter is out!

It is with great pleasure that we share the 4th newsletter on our project! This newsletter includes information about the 4th training course, which took place in Athens, Greece; the results of the survey from the teachers on how the trainings impacted their teaching practice; our face-to-face transnational project meeting and the upcoming events.

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Have you enrolled in our D-MANeD platform already?

We have a very simple self-enrollment process, which provides you access to all the intellectual outputs and the resources of our project, including 4 self-paced training courses!

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Transnational Project Meeting in Amsterdam

It has been great to meet in person in Amsterdam and discuss the project of our project and the recommendations we received by the National Agency after submitting the interim report.

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Second publication related to D-MANeD project

We are excited to announce that a second paper, covering the research we conducted with our teachers, is published in an international conference!

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Highlights from our last training

Please check the agenda of the training and some highlights from each training day! If you want to take this training online, you will have the opportunity to watch the tutorials we are going to prepare and complete the assignments we have prepared for you in our D-MANeD platform. Stay tuned!

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Our 4th training on "Dance, movement and rhetoric" takes place in Athens!

How wonderful is for all the D-MANeD partners and the participating teachers to meet again, in person. The training led by Roes (Greece) has been a great experience with a lot of dance, movement and rhetoric techniques to be implemented in the teaching practice and improve their students' learning.

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Highlights from the last training in Cyprus

The teachers who hosted the training at their school (Grammar School), created this great video with some highlights from the last D-MANeD training. We look forward to the next training on the 21st of June in Athens

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Our 3rd Newsletter has been published!

A lot of progress has been made over the last months and are happy to share this progress with you! If you haven't done it already, please subscribe to receive our newsletter via our "Contact" feature. Enjoy the reading!!!

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Develop artistic and social-emotional skills with the NDT app

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), an internationally renowned contemporary dance company, offers Dutch primary schools’ teachers of groups 3 to 8 an app to learn about contemporary dance in a playful way.

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Our paper included in the INTED2022 proceedings!

Great news! Our paper, on the first two training courses of the D-MANeD project is published in the INTED 2022 proceedings.

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The 3rd training of the project was completed successfully

It was great to be able to conduct this 3rd training on site, at the Grammar School premises. The training was about "Visual Arts and Theatre". Teachers seemed to enjoy it very much!

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Season's greetings

As we are come to the end of another turbulent year with COVID-19 disrupting our living conditions and working lives, we reflect on its impact and challenges on living and working in Europe.

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Publication related to D-MANeD project!

Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Vlad Grigoras, Marianna Kokota and Agapi Stampolidou will be presenting at the 16th annual International Technology, Education and Development (INTED) Conference.

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Urgent TPM on COVID-19 Developments

One representative of each organization met online to discuss the current developments with COVID-19 (lockdown in the coordinator's country and additional measures in other consortium countries). Due to time pressure for our deliverables and the organization of the remaining two trainings (which will be very difficult to take place online, due to their content- art, theater and movement, rhetoric) we decide to organize the 3rd training in February and the 4th in June. The dates were agreed by all school partners.

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November TPM (online)

On the 18 November, 2021 the consortium conducted another TPM. Unfortunately, the new COVID-19 context obliged us to meet online.

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Partners' meeting

On Friday 17 of September, partners from the knowledge institutions and the NGOs met to discuss about the progress of the intellectual outputs, the next training course and the next consortium meeting (including schools). It was great to see each other after the summer break!

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Handbook on NLP and Mindfulness!

After the end of our training course in "NLP and Mindfulness", our instructors put together the most important information and resources and they created the Handbook of the course, which we share here. Of course, all resources are available through our learning platform. We hope you will find it useful!

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Summer break & second Newsletter

The D-MANeD project partners wish you a happy and relaxing summer break! In the meantime, if you would like to be updated on the progress of our work please read our second newsletter, which can be accessed here

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41 learners have enrolled in the "NLP & Mindfulness Course"

Despite the summer break for schools and all teachers being exhausted with screen time because of emergency remote teaching during the pandemic in all partner countries, we had 41 participants who expressed their interest in joining our course!

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Second partnership meeting

The team met in July to evaluate the completion of the first online training course (e-learning fundamentals for teachers) and to prepare the logistics for the second (online) training (NLP & Mindfulness). This is the third meeting, but formally (after the signature of the agreements) it is the second one.

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The "NLP & Mindfulness" (online) course is ready!

Time flies and we are ready to accept the second cohort of learners for our second (online) in "NLP and Mindfulness"! The course is going to be offered between 6-10 July 2021

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Online webinar on "teachers' wellbeing" from Dr. Vlachopoulos

Our project coordinator, Dr. Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, offered an online webinar on teachers' wellbeing during emergency remote teaching

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65 learners have enrolled in the "e-learning fundamentals for teachers" course

Despite the challenges that COVID-19 pandemic has caused to teachers and schools, we couldn't be happier for the expression of interest we received for our first online training course.

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The "e-learning fundamentals for teachers" course is ready!

The coordinator of the project and partner in-charge for the "e-learning fundamentals for teachers" course, SkillsUp, confirmed that the course has been designed and the platform is ready to accept its first learners!

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The virtual learning platform of D-MANeD project is built!

We are ready to host our first training courses online! We adjusted the virtual learning platform of SkillsUp to the needs of our teachers and we are ready to welcome them all soon in our professional development programs!

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Good practices in the classroom

While we receive more and more answers from our teachers, we have started the collection of good practices. Specifically, we look for research studies, tools, and case studies at EU level on psycho-emotional balance, mindfulness, movement, art as methods for inclusive education, as well as e-learning, and coaching, as ways to increase student engagement and motivation.

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Our 1st Newsletter

Happy February!! Did you miss our 1st Newsletter? Please check it here and make sure you subscribe for the next ones through our website!

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New consortium meeting to held online!

This is the "official" first team meeting after signing the agreement with the National Agency, as well as the agreements between the coordinator and the partners. So, this was a moment of celebration, too!

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Our Educational Methods survey has been sent!

After an enjoyable -for all partners- winter break, we finalized our survey on educational methods and learning needs and we sent it to schools in the partner countries. The purpose of this survey is to understand the needs they have, as well as their interest and motivation to integrate new teaching methods, approaches in their teaching practice.

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Winter break for the D-MANeD consortium!

After some intensive first months of the project full of preparations, informal meetings, project planning and fruitful conversations, the partners will enjoy the winter break. Stay tuned, since from January we will be updating you on our progress on the Intellectual Outputs of the project!

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We have our logo!

After very stiff competition among 12 proposals for the logo of the project, the partners selected the logo that we will be using for this website and for all the publications and activities of the project.

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Meet the core project team!

We are happy to share more information about the core team that is currently involved in the project! Of course, the project counts with the support of more team members, teachers, volunteers and associate partners, but we would like to share some information about the main contributors in this project.

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Kick-off meeting

On the 24th of November, the kick-off meeting of the project took place! Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, the meeting took place online, via zoom! We look forward to meet in person as soon as possible!

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The D-MANeD project launches

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission and has been approved by the Dutch National Agency. We will be working on this project until June 2023 and we received a total budget of 345.732,00 €

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