Posting of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, current challenges, and future prospects

Online kick-off meeting

18.11.2022

The Kick-off meeting of the project Posting of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, current challenges, and future prospects was held within the first month from the beginning of the project on 18.11.2022. The meeting was organized online via zoom with the presence of all partners: UTH Thessaly (Greece), Innoved (Greece), InnoGrowth (Bulgaria), SFMM CL Podkrepa (Bulgaria), Lisbon NOVA University (Portugal), Forum for International Cooperation (Denmark) and RUZ SR (Slovakia).

The meeting was opened by a representative of the project beneficiary, FZZMiH -Federacja Związków Zawodowych Metalowców i Hutników w Polsce, with the welcoming words and presentation of their organization. After their introduction, the project beneficiary asked the partners to introduce themselves and their institutions with a short presentation.

The next part of the meeting, after a short coffee break, in the introduction of the project activities, objectives, results, and the discussion of the methodological approaches by NOVA Lisbon team. The experts from NOVA Lisbon presented the project with a detailed presentation of how and what is expected to be fulfilled during this project. A description of activities discussed having insight the objective of the project, the tasks at hand and the expected results. The main points of the presentation were Literature review, Available datasets, Fieldwork, Survey, Data analysis, Outputs, and Dissemination. The audience approved the methodology selected after a brief discussion.

The project partners had some questions about the next activities, one of the main questions was the timeline of the activities. Also, there were questions about the number of reports and number of pages, the deadlines, the future meetings, etc.  Furthermore, some partners also suggested that the dates of future meetings could be discussed with them because of their availability and organization of the time within their institutions.

At the end of the meeting, the project beneficiary summarized the meeting and thanked everyone with best wishes to all the participants.