The EDDI 4-day Learning, Teaching, Training activities were held in Thessaloniki, Greece at the offices of Stimmuli for Change. During the LTT-days informative seminars have been conducted by the experts from Universities and successful enterprises from the host country and also by the experts from the other partner countries joining at the location and via interactive tools like skype, zoom etc.

Stimmuli for Change

It was the first time that the EDDI partners saw each other face-to-face. Important feature of the LTT was getting some valuable feedback on the EDDi platform. Furthermore there were interview sessions planned about module 4 – Absenteeism. Overall discussions took place and future plans were made on the last day of the training.

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Absenteeism

All EDDI-partner organisations were interviewed on the absenteeism topic. All videos below are EDDI-videos are productions of the LTT-days. Below Masha Garibyan from the Aston University (United Kingdom) EDDI-project manager about ‘how absenteeism affects student performance:

Theofilos Poulipoulos, project manager Stimmuli for Change about tackling absenteeism in school. This video is an EDDI production.

More results of the training will be published and broadcasted by all the partners via videos on Youtube, the organiosation Websites and the website of the project.

The second Training activity of the EMPOWER.ment project took place from the 20th to the 23^rd September 2022 in Mati, Greece. The EMPOWER.ment project tries to include, integrate and empower people with mental health issues. The week has been full of meetings and development of the core activities of the project.

ANIMA

The week started on Tuesday with a catch up meeting where our hostpartner Anima presented the agenda and activities for the whole week. Then, we had two online talks with Mary Boile and John Read about mental health and different approaches used. The partnership also visited the ANIMA premises in Athens, where all the partners had a nice talk with service users and workers and their way of working.

Maritina from ANIMA presented several WHO Good practices. The partnership also discussed and worked on the next steps to finalize IO2, the Glossary, with all the definitions of the words and the new approach. Furthermore, partners checked IO1 to see what were the missing points

On Thursday, Luca from Unimore University (Italy) showed us the first steps for the Empower.ment platform, different options and the partners discussed how would be the best way to proceed with the content development. In the afternoon, the partnership enjoyed a cultural visit in Athens.

To finalize the week, all partners visited “Myrtillo”, a social cooperative enterprise where also some points of IO1, the methodological guide of Empower.ment were discussed with local experts.