Day: December 16, 2024

We are pleased to announce that our colleagues from Technical University of Liberec, namely Kateřina Maršíková, Hana Trávníčková, Tereza Michalová a Kateřina Tandlerová have started to work on a new project under the Interreg Europe initiative called ERNILAC: International labour market for future university graduates in Euroregion Nisa.

🌍🎓On Wednesday, 25 September 2024, the successful kick-off meeting of the ERNILAC project took place at the Ekonomická fakulta Technické univerzity v Liberci. As a lead partner, it was a pleasure to welcome our project partners from Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz, namely Stefan Eckert, Max Drake, Miriam Fink and Simon Eichentopf to continue and strengthen the collaboration between our institutions during our joint Interreg project.🤝🇨🇿🇩🇪

During the meeting, we effectively covered all key topics, and the team is excited to move forward with the upcoming actions and steps outlined in the project. The ERNILAC project focuses on addressing critical issues concerning graduate retention and labor market dynamics in the Euroregion Nisa (ERN).

🔑The ERNILAC project has in a nutshell following main aims and activities to achieve:
– Analyzing the attitude of university graduates towards employment in the Euroregion Nisa
– Identification of employers’ needs regarding graduates’ competences- Seminars for university students and graduates in Euroregion Nisa
– Linking Czech and German students and employers

The project lasts 2 years and officially started on 1 September 2024. Throughout the ERNILAC project, our team will conduct extensive qualitative and quantitative research with students, employers, and public institutions. The overarching goal is to increase students’ awareness of labor market opportunities within the ERN and to provide them with vital information regarding cross-border employment, including the specific skills and qualifications required.We are very pleased to be able to lead this project and cooperate with our German colleagues to address these significant challenges in higher education and the labor market.🎯

The 1st Expert Group Meeting of the Interreg ERNILAC project took place in Internationales Hochschulinstitut (IHI) Zittau (TU Dresden) on Friday, November 15th. From the Technical University of Liberec, our colleagues Kateřina Maršíková, who joined us online, Hana Trávníčková, Tereza Michalová, and Kateřina Tandlerová attended the meeting.

We want to thank all the incredible experts who joined us and committed to collaborating on the project over the next two years. Your insights and expertise will be invaluable to its success! Jiří Zahradník, Tomáš Brokeš, Eva Boczanova, Michaela Cintlová 🔥, Tomáš Smolík, Tobias Runte, Anna Metz, Alexander Jakschik, Thomas Tamme, Alexander Welk and Birgit Brand.

🔑During the meeting, we discussed university graduates` competencies, the attraction of graduates and young talents, intercultural differences in the business environment, cross-border labour market needs related to employers, the structure of the universities’ study programmes, and much more!

The knowledge and insights gathered during the meeting will shape the foundation for surveys targeting students, employers, and public institutions and for preparing impactful workshops for our students.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this productive first step – together, we’re building bridges between education and the labour market across borders! 🤝🇨🇿🇩🇪
More info can be found: https://lnkd.in/eAweWKpx