 Thank you. So I'm waiting for my slides. Okay, there you go. This is what I wanted to mention that it is an European development and I'll talk about it. I'm from the University of Porto in Portugal and I'm Vice-Coordinator of NEP. NEP is the Network of Academic and Professionals of Eden and I will say some words about it because it's a very interesting organization. I will spend five minutes about it. Then I'll about 20 minutes for the presentation and I hope that we will have time for questions and discussion. Of course, you place your questions in the chat area and I'll try to to answer your questions. So getting to the point of what is NEP it's indeed a network. So it's a big network inside Eden or with Eden, but it deals with persons, with those that are dedicated to online or distance learning and it is a place where you can contact others and discuss issues and use also materials that are available on the blog in the Eden website. I'm currently Vice-Chair of this network. The chair is Professor Antonella Pochett or in University of Rome from Carlo where Carlo De Medio is also working. She's was supposed to do this introduction. I'm taking her role as placing some information about NEP. NEP is autonomous from Eden. Let's say it's Eden has a steering committee and Eden works with the steering committee, but it has its own initiatives and this webinar is one of them, for instance. It's one of the initiatives that NEP has to present some subjects to those that are interested. It also has a chat. Today, there's a chat on by Professor Antonella Pochett. If you are available and you want to attend, you can participate in the Eden web chat. It is for members and like I said, it's a communication forum where we those that are interested, as you know, there is no definition of an online professional or academic. So this is somehow a guild for everyone that wants to participate and discuss with their peers subjects that are interesting. You have placed by the Eden secretary at the link to the Eden chat today. So and it's about the roads to the next conference. So it's kind of an introduction of what's going to be and Professor Antonella Pochett, our the chair of the NEP will coordinate that. Just to give you an idea of the activities of the NEP, we are planning 11 webinars this year. So as you can imagine, it's a lot of effort. It's a lot of work. People are willing to participate in the webinars. The subjects are very different. You can see it on the Eden web page and you can also check other webinars in the previous Eden chats. Some of them have been more active than others, but there are some interesting things. So it's a peer, like I said, a peer forum, a blog where you can participate. And there are about 1000 registered members. Of course, there are many others that have somehow participated in Eden activities, but according to the Secretary General of Eden, he told me yesterday, there are about 1000 members in NEP. 1000 members is a lot of members for any organization. I mentioned already this question of the relevant topic, so participate and get involved. Okay, so that's my introduction to NEP. I will start with them now. Let's say with what I think it's relevant for my presentation. It's this question of the use of the EuroPASS as an e-port show. And these are the targeted audience, the type of people that may be interested in this development of the EuroPASS. The EuroPASS is not digital document. It's sometimes a world file or a PDF. It can be online, of course, but the idea is to advance the current EuroPASS to a digital format and template with different uses and different utilities, different benefits for individual end users, who are the ones that will use it daily or regularly. The facilitators, because it's intended that there will be facilitators financed by the European Commission or by the European Union nations, countries, that will assist the individual end users to improve the use of the EuroPASS as an e-portfolio. And of course, there are the recipients like employers or organizations or other peers of the persons that are applying the EuroPASS as an e-portfolio to receive information and process that information. These are the targets that the audience is of this project. This is, like I said, a project from the from the European Commission. Yesterday I was in Brussels together with the Secretary General of Eden on a workshop about how to improve SMEs qualifications and performance using online training. And the representative of DJ Grow from the European Commission presented precisely this EuroPASS as one of the steps to digitalize the tools that are available for a more efficient Europe. And this project, it was subcontracted to a company, Everest. It's called EuroPASS and it has like I mentioned the intent of developing the current EuroPASS to digital portfolio. And it has fundamentally six tools. This will be available this year, probably after the summer. And the first tool is the profile, which is the most common known usefulness of the EuroPASS is to have a profile, is to have a CD where you compile and you store information about you. That's one tool that will be available. All these six tools are independent from each other and they will be available on the EuroPASS website for everyone to use. This is for free. And the second one is online editor where you can use several possibilities, like to create and download a CV, to use language passports so you can translate your CD in other languages. And also cover later that will somehow introduce yourself and introduce whatever you're doing in terms of your digital portfolio. The third tool is skills profiler. It is a formatted I've seen it as an example on the on by the company that is doing this subcontracting for the European Commission and it's really useful because the point is sometimes you don't know how to list your qualifications. And this skills profiler is how do I say directory of the skills or better I would prefer to call it competencies because skills is just one part of the competencies that people have. But in any case it shows your your possible uses of this template, this directory of the several skills either in your job or some personal skills or in terms of your attitudes, your autonomy, etc. It tries to match what you do or what you are towards an overall list of competencies available for several profiles. So this is something that will help everyone to define who you are, what you can do, and now you will act. Most of the time some people exaggerate, some others are very timid when they present these these competencies of each one, but in this case the idea is that you try to fit yourself, your profile into a list of possible competencies that are available from this skills profiler. Now the fourth tool is where you plan your future. You try what I'm an engineer. So one of the things that we do in certain professional engineer organizations and in companies, mostly companies that are interested in that, is what we call a personal development plan. So you try to identify where do you want to be in one year? Where do you want to be in five years or 10 years? And this is what the SurroPass tool number four will help you to do that. And of course this will be available for everyone. You will have control of what kind of information you will be furnishing to the different persons that can take at your can take a look at your Europas. It's not how do I say open to everyone? You have control of the access to your information. And of course this not only helps you organize your life and your work, but it will also be possible to show to other people what aspirations you have, what type of work you want to do, what you intend to learn, where you want to work for instance as a volunteer. It's a very broad tool, but it will enable you to how do I say to materialize your future. That's basically what this will do. Now tool number five is a tool that where as you have seen one of the target audiences were the receivers, where receivers will be able to place their job opportunities and with the description of the skills and competencies and attitudes that they want for the for the job offer. And you can use this tool to try to match who you are or what you want to be towards what the receivers, let's say will be willing to accept you as a future worker. Of course in all these tools you will have access to the second target to the audience which are the facilitators. Like I mentioned the Europas is the intention of having facilitators that will work for free trying to to help you use any of these six tools. The sixth tool, the last one, is what you can use to formalize your application and submit it. Since number five will show you what is available number six will try to fit who you are or what you want to do with what is requested from any employer or any government or agency that wants to have a certain type of person. So these are the six tools that are scheduled for the Europas which as you can see is a little bit different from the current Europas, but this is what's going to happen like I mentioned in this here in a digital form. What are in a nutshell, what are the functionalities of of this Europas too? Of course it tries to be a hub a centralized platform where both those that want to hire people are looking for professionals and those that are professionals and are looking for another position they will meet in this hub, in this centralized gateway that European Commission wants to create. Like I mentioned, there are these six tools that are somehow a match with some of the existing tools that are available like the self-assessment tool which they want to use is a tool that will somehow compare what you are doing and try to assess with evidence, with proof that you really have those confidences. Like I mentioned before it's available for free, so it's a free web platform and it will be used to perform these these functionalities and like I mentioned this will not be public. This is just for registered members and the registered members have access to some of the advanced facilities but not to all. So there will be somehow here a match between your privacy and what you want to disclose to possible employers and to other peers. The conclusions and that's my personal experience from what I've seen and the participation I had with with the persons that are developing their web tool from the company's Everest. I mean you can look for it, it's Everest. It's a big company that is providing this subcontract to the European Commission. My impression is this is a well-rounded web tool meaning that it's easy to use and it's comprehensive on one hand and on the other hand it's aiming at certain functionalities and objectives. So I think it will be a success. Next year we can talk about this, but it's my impression. The other is that you can disclose your qualifications either with certificates or diplomas or with digital badges or whatever proof of your qualifications and they will be recorded and displayed to those that are willing to present those qualifications. The third one that I think it's very useful and it's a novelty is this support. You will have facilitators to support both the receivers and the individual users that want to somehow to present their own qualifications and their own profiles. It is intended to manage lifelong learning when you talk about lifelong learning and one of the things that is not usually done it's the proper recording of your progress in terms of your qualifications and this will somehow be a tool that will help you not only predict your learning in the future but also to record what's going on and at the same time to present the proofs and the evidences that you somehow had some kind of lifelong learning and progress in your own qualifications. Of course this is something that it's being mentioned constantly. The need especially in Europe for the upskilling and also the re-skilling. Upskilling when you need to improve your own qualifications and the re-skilling when you have to adapt it to new situations. So basically these are the conclusions and I would like to mention the next wave shots like I mentioned the road to bruises today and another one on the 19th of june concerning the conference about summing up the annual conference with the conclusions. So this is what I wanted to to mention today. I hope that I gave you an idea of what will be the era pass and I'm available for questions. I haven't received anything on the chat but I feel free to present any questions and I'll try to answer as best as I can. Pantonella is online so she can she can also talk about the nap if needed and present any answer that you may have that you may want and I I'm finished for now. So is there any questions so sure it was a pleasure if you have more questions you can ask me or Eden secretariat and they will pass it on to me otherwise if there are no questions the webinar will be available so you can take a look at what I said and consult the slides also well if there are no questions I think that thank you and goodbye Okay, Matthew see you in Baruch. Yeah all Eden fans good. That's very good so I was talking to the convinced people thank you ciao I think the Eden secretary yet may now close the the session I think the the the subject is simple, but It's you should be looking forward. Do I close the session or do you close the session?