 Welcome everyone, good afternoon. Welcome to this webinar offered by the European School Education Platform, the European Commission's platform for school education in Europe. My name is Marta and I will be your host for today. Just a practical information before we officially start. The webinar is recorded and the recording might be used for dissemination purposes. And if you have questions, comments, please post them in the chat. Please keep in mind that we will address general questions, but specific questions related to individual user issues will be addressed elsewhere. So the new European School Education Platform is available. Thanks to the financial support of the Erasmus Plus programme of the European Union, the new platform will become a hub for content, networking and professional development of school education community, hosting all the content and services provided so far by School Education Gateway and the twin platforms. During this webinar, the speakers will explain the objective for the new platform and introduce you to different areas and functionalities currently available, as well as an offer of an overview of the further developments of the platform, content and services over the coming months. It's my pleasure to introduce our speakers. We have Markus Rester, Head of Sector, online education platform with school and multilingualism unit in the Directorate General Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission. We have also Jessica Massini, Interaction Designer at European School Net and Benjamin Erls, Pedagogical Manager at European School Net, who will be standing for our colleague Ruthie Battista as she cannot be with us today. Without further ado, I would like now to give the floor to Markus. Markus, please, the floor is yours. Hello everybody, thanks for joining us. Good afternoon. This is what I would like to start the webinar with the what, the why and the how are the main areas I want to address. So I want to start with giving you a bit of overview of the next few minutes. First, let's talk about the great, let's talk about the great heritage that we have between Engels School Education Gateway. Let's look at them. What are they offering? What are the audiences? What is the vision of this single integrated European School Education platform? Then I would like to close with a few examples of how do we achieve this harmonization that we are aiming for? How do we achieve this reuse of existing solutions that we are aiming for? But basically, that's what you can expect in the next few minutes. Next one, please. So, it's winning. Many of you are very much aware. It's a success story since 17 years. It's a restricted platform for teachers and school staff and everyone being active there needs to be vetted by an Intvining National Support Organization, which provides this safe and secure place. It's a community, a lot of peer learning happens there, professional development courses are offered and much more. But at the core of it winning, of course, is the cross-border, other cross-border projects with the students between teachers, school staff and their students. On the other hand, the School Education Gateway is an open platform. Anyone can register. It has information not only for school staff, but for policy makers, researchers, etc. Great offers of professional development courses on the so-called Teacher Academy there, the course catalog for third-party providers, even courses, offering courses that can be attended via Erasmus Plus funding, partner finding for Erasmus Plus, of course, and European toolkit for schools and much, much more. Next one. So, this is a very nice overview that you can find on both platforms that gives you, like, what is the School Education Gateway offering? What is a twinning offering? And if we look at the points in the list, what they offer, you might spot some overlaps. Can you give me the next one, please? For instance, partner finding, partner search. On the school education gateway, you have that for Erasmus Plus projects. And in the twinning, you have the same thing, of course, for a twinning. The same holds true for professional development. You have the great Teacher Academy webinars and online courses. And on the twinning, you have the online courses, the learning events, the professional development workshops. So, both areas are covered in both places. And if you are a teacher, how do you know where to go? Basically, you have to monitor both platforms to identify interesting professional development offers. Next one. And that's the reason why we decided, okay, how about we merge that, make them, make all of this happen in one single place? You think about professional development, there's one place to go, the professional development section in the School Education Gateway. European School Education Platform. That's a, you see, it's a lot of legacy involved and the strong heritage that I also need to adapt. Or you think about, I want to find a partner. Be it for a new twinning project, be it for an Erasmus project, there's one place you go. It's the partner finding functionality on the new European School Education Platform. Next one, please. So, mentioned already, you find resources here and there. You find professional development here and there. You find partner search here and there. Next one. And we want to bring that to one single platform. We want to streamline the use of journeys. You, as a user, you go there. You do not need first to decide to which platform do I go. Where do I find the partner search in the one platform as opposed to the other platform? That is might seem slightly different maybe. We want to deduplicate content and functionalities. Harmonize visual identity, reuse solutions that already exist on many other platforms the European Commission runs and so create a more efficient spending of money also, of taxpayers money. Next one. Look, that's how harmonization now looks like. On the left-hand side, you have the European platform for adult education professionals, EPALE. And on the right-hand side, you have the new European School Education Platform. And you see already with that it looks the same. It's hosted on the same European domain. It's not only the visual identity, but also the underlying technology is the same. So if we spend, again, taxpayers money in developing a very new tool functionality on the EPALE, since it's the same technology, it should be easily ported to the school education platform and vice versa. So creating a lot of synergies. And another example would be on the next slide. It's one too much. Yes, that's the one. When I talk about reuse of corporate solutions, one nice example is the use of U-Login. With one on the same login, I can access EPALE for adult educators as the school education platform. I can go with the same login to U-Academy where Ben will talk later about where all the professional development is hosted. And now not only for the school education sector, but also for EPALE and for the European Solidarity Corps and for Humanitarian Aid and all courses by many other directorate generals of the European Commission and other European institutions. So the one single place when you go, when you want to take a course or want to join a webinar. With the same single sign on U-Login account, I can go to the European Youth Portal. I can go through Europas and update my CV there. And this is just one of the many examples where we create synergies and reuse things from existing solutions. Before I now hand over to Jessica, you can imagine having a heritage of 17 years on its winning and a bit less like for the school education gateway. Bringing those two platforms first, bringing them together, moving them from one technology that is faced out in the commission universe to another technology. This is a huge undertaking. We are working now since a long time together with the central support service and the contractor for the IT development to get this done. And in such a big project, are there hiccups? Yes, of course there are. Is it a bumpy road? Yes, it's a very bumpy road. And we do our best. We really do our best. I see already that some of you posted questions. When will it be fully functional? When will this work? When will that work? Rest assured, we work hard together with all involved colleagues in the executive agency and on the central support service side. And we plan a new deployment next week that will again solve a lot of this hiccups experience. But as with any project of that magnitude, it was to be expected. We will get there. And it's really nice to see the school education platform coming to life, seeing you creating projects there, seeing new users registering, seeing users from the old itwining platform activating their accounts there. So this is really exciting. And it's coming to life. And the content migration from the SAC is working progress. It's running as we speak. So all the content from the old school education gateway will be migrated and will be soon available on the new platform. And as long as this is not fully there, the old platform is still available to access all content. So now I close here on my side and hand over to Jessica. Thank you. Thank you very much, Marcus, for giving this introduction and also for addressing some of the questions that were posted by the user in the chat. I remind you that for general questions, we will also come back to you towards the end of the webinar during the Q&A session. So please keep on posting them in the chat. Now without further delay, I will give the floor to Jessica Massini, our interaction designer. Jessica, the floor is yours. Thank you, Marta. And thank you, Marta. And hello, everyone. So I'm going to quickly guide you through the whole platform and what is there for you and what you can do on the platform at the moment. And then I will finish telling you what is coming next. So we're going through the homepage, the mailbox. I will show you how the e-tweening area works, how to find contact schools, organization, how to navigate the twin space, what you can do there, what is the difference between a twin space and a group, and then of course, as I said before, what is coming next. So first of all, this is the homepage. We are still working on it. As you can imagine, it will be improved. You will have also the news very soon on the homepage. And this is how it looks like for non-locked-in users. In case you log in with your EU login, then you will be also able to see the upcoming courses that is going to happen on the EU Academy. And then my colleague, Ben, will introduce you later. And also, this is the main differences between, because in the platform you can register as a European school education platform register user or as an e-tweener in case you are a teacher or working in a school. In case of a registered user, you will have notifications, dashboard, groups, profile, and log out. While for e-tweening, you will have something more. So, yeah, notification, as you can see, is in both menu. Notifications shows what is happening for you. And it gives you the actions that you can perform there. Like, if you have a request from a user that wants to get in contact with you, or if you've been added to a new school or new organization, if your membership has been accepted. Then you have the dashboard where you have everything you have done in the platform. At the moment, you only have the postings there. But you will have also all your portfolios or your professional development activities. Everything will be in your dashboard. Then you have your groups. As you can see, groups are also available for registered users. This is because in order to access a group, you need to be registered to the platform. So, also registered users can access groups. Your profile is there as well. And then, of course, the log out. You also have the option to change the language of the platform. At the moment, it is in English, but you can choose the language you want. And also, only for e-twinners, you have twin spaces and the mail. The mail is only for e-twinners in case of registered users to the platform. They can use a sort of facilitated email. So, you will receive an email in your mailbox with the content written by the other person, only if you want to be contacted. But this is something I will show you very soon. How the mailbox looks like. It's a simple normal mailbox. You have the inbox and the sent messages. The list of emails that you received will highlight the ones that need to be read. And then if you click on New Message, you can simply create a new message, put the recipients, the CC subject, and the message you want to write. So, very easy to use as every mailbox. About your profile. Okay, everything related to your activities is related to your profile. So, in your profile, you have the main information. So, what type of account you have. So, if you are a teacher, if you are a company staff, if you are e-twinning validated, the name, what is your default organization, and then the list of organization that you have linked to your profile. Then you have the about with further information and the projects in case you are e-twinners. If you click on Edit your profile, you will end up in a screen. Now, it was not fitting here. It's a very long screen. But from here, you can edit all the information related to your profile. So, the account information comes from your EU login, which means that if you want to change your login credentials, you need to click on the link and go to the EU login platform in order to change them. Then you have the about you, where you can fill in the education type, subjects or vocational subject, the country of work, the profile picture, the description, the language, the topic you are interested in. This is important because as soon as the homepage will be improved and we will have also further content, then you will see the content related to your interest highlighted first. So, this is very important. Then you need to set your time zone. Register to the newsletter if you want to receive it. Please remember to do it because by default it's not enabled. So, if you want to be kept updated of what is happening on European school education platform and e-twinning, you need to apply for them. And then you can also choose the language of the newsletter that you want to receive. The email address you want to use for notifications and then if you have a website, a Facebook profile or some social media profile. Then another important thing for you is the profile visibility because this will allow you to choose who can view your profile and you can choose between user register on the platform, only e-twinners in case of e-twinners or no one, which I mean if you want to be in the platform maybe it's better if someone can find you. Then you also have who can comment on your posts. Posts are not there yet but they will be at one point. So, check this one and also who can contact you. So, if you want to be contacted by anyone on the platform or only from e-twinners, this is something really, really important. Also, what is important is the join e-twinning because here you can choose if you want to be available for e-twinning project or not. We are receiving many, many questions of why I cannot find my partner in the partner finding list or why I cannot add this person as a co-founder in a project. Well, it's just because they haven't enabled this option. So, please go to your profile and check that this option is already enabled and then of course you have the option to deactivate your profile in case you don't want to be searched anymore or you want to be hidden from the world platform. Then, how to add an organization? So, this is another important step. You can click on add an organization and then you can fill in all the information related to the subject or the ages taught in case of a school and then you can start searching for the organization by choosing the country. So, you choose the country, you click on search and then you will have an input text field when you can start typing the name of your school and then you will see the list appearing just below. If your school is not there but please check before that your school is there maybe with another name because this could also happen but in case no one has registered it before then you can register a new school or organization. Then you need to choose also the role in the organization and then submit and the organization is added to your profile. Yeah, this is an example I was trying to find central support service. I have to go in the organization page and check which one is the correct one. Now you have the ID number that can help you to find which is the best one. Any question about this? Marta? Yes, thank you. Thank you Jessica for showing this first part. We asked one question about the registration actually and some E-twinners are now a European school education platform registered and are shown as no E-twinners on the new platform. Will this issue be solved? Sorry, can you repeat? She registered to the platform? Yes, but it says that it's a no E-twinner on the new platform and this is an issue because it should be. Okay, only people who choose to be teacher when they register on the platform can apply for being a twinner and in order to be a twinner when they add the organization they need to choose. I want to join E-twinning. Okay, thank you very much. Yes, I think we can move on with the second part. Thank you Jessica. Okay, so a user is registered. They have to be a twinner. They've been validated by the NSO because that's another important step. Once you join E-twinning you need to wait for the NSO to be validated and then once you're validated you can access the E-twinning area. The E-twinning area, you can see from the E-twinning area the local news which are the news published by your NSO and then you can also see the groups, my project and support. So groups, if you click on groups you will see the list of the groups created on the platform by other E-twinners and then if the group is open you can join and visit the group. Otherwise you will find some basic information and check if something is important for you or not. My project is the place where you can see all your projects that you have done on the platform. The projects can be active which means they are open and you can work on them. They are pending in case you are waiting for your co-founder approval or the approval from the NSO and they are closed in case you finish the project and then you decided to close it or in case the end of the year it has been closed. So the project is closed and you cannot work on it anymore. So if you click on the project you end up in the project information page where you have the about that shows all the information, you have the members, the image gallery and as you can see on the right you have the like because you can like a project if you really like it or you have the options to go to the twin space, edit the project in case you are the founder or the co-founder of the project or close the project. What is really important here is that from the members tag you can invite member. Inviting a member from here means that you want an additional member in your project. So the person invited from here will become member of the project and member of the twin space. Questions about this section? Yes Jessica we have one question. Will all the materials and other contents of the old twin spaces migrate to this new platform? Yes well sorry the twin spaces yes there will be but we set up a cut of date so please check the Q&A section on the school education platform European school education platform so you can see what is the cut of date because projects well materials and twin spaces older than 2007 2018 from not mistaken won't be migrated while the the other ones will be on the new platform as you can imagine it's a very big amount of data so it requires time to be migrated to the new platform but don't worry everything will be there. Thank you very much we can continue. So we can move on with the networking. Okay the networking area is the place where you can get in contact with others. Check what are the schools and organization and find your partners. So as you can see from the screenshot a place the schools and organization sections is the place where you can find all the schools and organization that are registered on the platform. This is really nice because you can see information about the schools that are there. The partner finding is another important area especially for e-tweening at the moment but we will have the Erasmus Plus tools here as well for Erasmus Plus project and here you can write post they are called e-tweening project ideas and for the ones who are used to be familiar with e-tweening with the previous platform it is what was called partner finding forum so now it's e-tweening project ideas you can post here if you click on add posting then you can just add an e-tweening project idea and fill in all the information related to the posting which is the type the organization that you are using the title of the idea you have the summary and all the information in order to ask people if they could be interested in joining your project and then really finding someone interested in starting a new project with you all. Once it's done you will see all the information and then you have the options of click on I found my partner in case you found the partner before the expiration date or in case someone is interested in your project they can write a comment below it and then you can start getting in touch with each other. Once you find the person you're interested to get in touch with you can just go to the people section of the platform and then fill in the name or use the advanced filters and then you will see the people showing right there and if you click on the name of the person you want to get in contact then you can choose to you can visit the profile and from there you can see the schools that are linked to this person profile where this person is located if it's an e-tweener if it's a teacher or have another role in the school like headmaster or consultant or whatever role and then you can choose to add this person as a contact or to get in contact with this person and then on the networking the last part is related to projects so from here you can see all the project registered on the platform and you can also start a new project from here so if you click a new project create a project then you will end up in a screen where you will need to fill in the information related to the school you want to select because maybe you have more than one school linked to your profile then you select the partner as a co-founder please note as I said before in order for the person to show up in the list here this person needs to be one of your contact and they need to have enabled available for e-tweening project so do not forget that and then just fill in all the information about the project so the title the description the key competencies subject and all the information the work process the thumbnail the results you can check it with the review and then once you click on create you will send a request to your co-founder to approve to be your project partner co-founder and once this person has approved then the request will go to the NSO or to the both the NSOs because in case the project is a European project then you need it needs to be validated by both the NSOs please remember a project that starts national will be national even though you add European members afterwards so it's very very important that if you want to apply for national quality labels you need to have a European project since the beginning and once the NSO has approved the project then the twin space is automatically created questions about the projects yes Jessica we had one question in the chat about the certificates for the project actually and the question is can we download the certificate showing we are part of the current project like we used to unfortunately not yet but this feature will be available on the platform thank you thank you very much and then we have the twin space twin space actually is the place where the project happens and as I said before if you go in your in your menu in your user menu you will see my twin spaces and if you have only one twin space then once click on my twin space you will go directly to your twin space otherwise if you have more than one you will end up in this page where you can see your active twin spaces the archived one and the closed one the closed one are the one related to project which are already closed and they are in view only mode for the active ones you can choose to edit the information of the twin space open the twin space or archive it in case you want to put it on hold but you don't want to close the project so if you open the twin space you will see the structure is more or less the same as before but with a very different look and feel so you will have the overview with the teacher bulletin there you will have all the updates and then the quick links to open the chat room to create online meeting and to create discussions in the forum the pages are working as before so if you click on create a page then you can put the title of the page in case you already have top level page you can choose to create a second level page so if you have a parent page you can create a second level page and then in the page content you can choose to put the text content or the poll please note that the twin board will be available next year at the moment it's not there but it will be available don't worry and then from here you can also check the visibility of the page you can change it and put it visible only for you and for administrators for everyone on the internet so to make it public or only for twin space members you can also check for the permission so who can head in the page so if only administrators and teachers or also pupils and and visitors also you can choose about discussions so as before if you want you can also create a forum discussion linked to the to the page or you can also check the version history so if someone makes changes to a page that you have created you can go back and see what was changed before then we have the materials and it works exactly as before so you can upload images videos and files and if you do it from here you can from the materials section you can move things into folders and organize the content otherwise if you're doing it directly from the I don't know the page or the updates then they go immediately in the materials folder themselves then you have the forum the forum where you can open discussions and inside each discussion you can open threads so to organize your discussion as much as you want online meetings are already there and they are already working and if you click on meetings you can see all the past meetings and the upcoming ones and you can create new online meetings otherwise with the chat room you can just open the chat room and start chatting with all the people inside the twin space then we have the members this is a quite important section because it has a bit different since before so first of all if you want to invite other users that's one of the big news if you invite someone who is one of your contacts and it's available for a twinning project at the moment when you invite this member you can choose to invite this person only to the twin space or also to the project so you can invite on you can choose where do you want this person to collaborate with you for pupils you can choose to add new pupils add existing pupils or import pupils in case you add new pupils you can just fill in the first name last name and then the password the username is automatically generated by the platform and then you can choose the role if you click on add the pupil then you can add pupils to the twin space when you get the success warning you can download the passwords card passwords cards are under improvement at the moment because we want to put there also the link for pupils to be connected to the twin space and one important information is that the pupils login is the link that you can see here so is school-education.ec.uropa.eu slash english or your language slash pupil-login but anyway it will be soon available in all the password cards that you can download from here and then the main thing is what are the differences between the twin spaces and groups as you know they have the same logic behind they are working exactly the same way but the twin space is the place where the project work is done and they can work the project members there and the teacher and students while the group is something oh here I have something weird in my slide okay there's something weird thing uh in twinning groups uh are with 12 places where you can meet it winners with the same interests so it's more related to topics and to um yeah specific specific topics um the twin space is automatically created when the project is approved while the groups are created by it winners and they can be um at the moment they are automatically approved but very soon there will be again uh that will require again the approval from the css as it used to be in the previous platform uh on twin space you can have access from pupils while in groups you don't have it uh it's not possible to have pupils in groups and the twin space has two different type of roles administrators and members while groups have administrator expert members and moderators so these are the main differences uh before going into the questions uh I would like to remind you that for any support related to it twinning and the twinning features on the platform you need to contact your nso if you want to find your the contact details for your nso you just uh you can visit the about page on the um european school education platform and there is a section between nso while if for any inquiries related to european school education platform for for any technical reason you can just go to azab dash support that you and there uh we will take care of your uh issues and and problems Marta do we have questions before I move on with what's going next yes Jessica we we had one question about the mailbox and the students can their register students use the mailbox of the platform uh no uh the the mailbox is only for uh itwinners registered on the platform pupils is something different because pupils uh they don't have a u-log in therefore they have a sort of special status on the on the world platform thank you for answering we can move on okay so um what is coming next okay so uh by the end of 2022 uh you're going to be able to apply for the twinning school label this is going to come very soon as well as to uh for projects to be nominated for the european quality label and we will have the twinning prizes application uh during the course of 2023 well there's going to be many things happening but first of all we will start identifying the needs together with the nso the end users and the other stakeholders and everything will be um checked in the in the following areas that is the platform usability so we want to make the platform uh we want to improve the platform and make it as easier to be used as possible uh the erasmus plus tools which at the moment are not there uh and also the features for the itwinning community which at the moment um there are a lot of things missing so this is going to happen in 2023 i think i'm done so i'm yes thank you thank you very much jessica for showing us all the all the features available currently on the platform uh we will surely have some more time for the questions at the end of the session but now i would like to give the floor to benjamin herd so we'll introduce the professional development on the european school education platform so then welcome the the floor is yours many thanks marita and thanks jessica for that introduction i want to see you running through the slides there jessica so if you could move yes okay so um i'll be briefly talking about um the professional development areas of the european school education platform um the course webinar catalogue how to enroll in access a course and then i'll look at the eu academy platform which is um where actually all the courses from the european school education platform are hosted i'll explain more about that in a moment and very briefly at the end also talk about how um you can find support on the courses or webinars specifically um next slide please so um first point is that uh when we talk about professional development on the european school education platform we need to talk about two platforms because we have on the european school education platform itself we have the course catalogue um and the webinar catalogue so this is the place where you can find information about the professional development offer that we have available um but when you then participate in that professional development you actually go to a different platform called the eu academy platform and this is um a learning management system based on moodle many of you probably know moodle um which the european commission uses to host um all the courses um and webinars etc that are being offered by different european commission services and this is also the platform that we're using to host our courses and i'll show more how the two interact uh in a moment can you next slide please so first point of call is if you go to the home page um you will see at the top um in the navigation bar um a place where you can click on development and there is a another category called professional development when you click on that you get to this page here um where you see an overview of the courses and webinars that are currently being offered now at the moment you will not see so many courses and webinars there currently there are only three showing up here um this however should change in the upcoming months so the number should increase for sure um for now um you will only see their courses webinars that are being offered directly by the european school education platform um there was a question of the chat about when it will be possible again for other course providers external course providers to um add courses here into the catalogue and we expect this to to come in 2023 at some point so that remains not possible for now now um you can um when you then click on one of the courses let's take this upcoming course on e-twinning projects and twin space launching on the 14th launching on monday um you can then find information about the course about the learning objectives description um the methodology um the launch date the end date etc um and you can also um directly access the course from this page now um the blue button that you can see here that is highlighted um this depends on um if you are already enrolled to the course or not um in this example um I am already enrolled on this course so um when I click on that button the course directly opens for me on the academy if you're not enrolled this button will show enroll then um and then you can click on the button and you are automatically enrolled on the course however please note that some of our courses are restricted to specific audiences in this course it's actually only for e-twinners so if you are not an e-twinner then you will not be able to access this course and the enroll button will be grayed out so you will not be able to enroll to this course um and in the future we might have these type of restrictions also for other audiences depending on um the need there um next slide thanks so yeah this just shows another section of that course page highlighted here at the bottom you can see information about the learning hours the target audience as well as the upcoming sessions sometimes courses are offered in multiple sessions so multiple times throughout the year and this is indicated here under the upcoming sessions part now if we click on the open course button then we move to this different platform the EU Academy so you can see here the interface looks quite different the colors are quite different um and yeah now we are in directly inside the course and here on this slide you can see the course interface the main course interface so you can see the different modules um and where and how to access the content you can see links for the course announcements and the course forum here um when you browse through this this will be um I think quite clear and easily now navigable for you um but let's just take a look briefly at some of these areas in more detail so if you click on one of the module headings you will then see the course content popping up for you next slide so which looks a bit like this so you can see an introduction to the module or how this course works section and when you scroll down further that page you will then see individual module sections next slide which is marked here in the red box and when you click on these um individual module sections that's where you get to the actual course content and activities um and where you can then navigate through the different content and activities that the course provides um which you can see on the next slide and that looks like this here and you can navigate backwards and forwards here through that content through the bottom uh through the buttons at the bottom there um I hope that's given you sort of a sense of um the interaction between the european school education platform and the course interface um most of our courses are highly interactive and require you to um interact with your peers so we also make use of lots of external tools such as paddlets and tri-siders etc so you will see these either linked on those pages that I just that I just showed you or embedded on those pages so you can interact with your course peers there um I want to say just very briefly a few more words about the eacademy because at the moment um on the european school education platform when you go to your own profile you're on dashboard you will actually not see any information about the courses so you will not see any certificates that you've been awarded there and you will not see the courses that you have enrolled in um so in the meantime while this is not available on the european school education platform you can access all of this directly on the eacademy so by clicking on your name um at the top right uh you can see this menu popping up where you can find um for example a dashboard um and a profile link if you click on the dashboard link there you get an overview of all the courses that you have enrolled in can you move to the next slide thanks so that looks like this then here so you can see here also courses that are not from the european school education platform if you have signed up for courses um on the eacademy from different providers um but here you have a nice overview of all the courses uh upcoming events um your files um announcements and achievements etc also also also summarized here uh and the same thing goes for the profile um if you go to the profile page there you will be able to access for example your certificates that have been awarded um through all the courses later on um this information should all be available on the um profile and dashboard of the european school education platform for now this is the only place where you will be able to access them and you can move to the next slide yeah this is the uh profile page where you can uh see here how to edit it and you have different um areas of the profile such as the my certificate which is probably the most important and relevant area for you and then um a quick final word um now as i mentioned on the course catalogue and webinar catalogue um on the um school education platform itself there's currently not so much not so many course webinars there we have however a lot more courses on offer so um you can find all of those courses uh also old courses which still are accessible for browsing so you can still enroll in them and browse through the content and you can find those directly through the europe academy interface there's a search box here and you can also search by category so if you go to the education category you will see um all of our courses but also courses from other european commission services so um just be aware of that and then if you are stuck with something um then there are really two different places to go for help in regards to the professional development offer um if you have technical issues linked to the europe academy then go to the help desk of the europe academy which you can see here on the slide and they have a dedicated email address as well which you can also find on that help desk it's you slash academy slash support at ec or your product dot eu um but if you have issues regarding the course organization um information that's on your certificates uh questions about the timing of the courses these type of things then please direct these questions to the school education platform help desk so which you can see on the next slide and on the and there you can see um uh in the inquiry form when you when you contact the help desk there you can identify that your inquiry is regarding the courses on offer or the webinars on offer so please make sure to mark that accordingly so that it is directed to the um correct uh colleagues at our end that's it from my side um i hope that's giving you a sense of uh what the professional development offers uh and will hopefully soon offer on the school education platform back to you Marta thank you thank you very much ben for also giving as an introduction and an overview of the professional development on the new platform as the slide is clearly stating we will have some time now for some questions and answer together with our speakers um so please continue to post your question in the chat i see already uh one for desika maybe about actually the the new speed on on it winning live because on the old platform indeed on it winning live there were places where you could post updates about what happened um around connected with all the it winning related stuff and is there anything similar in the new platform uh will it be available anytime soon yeah as i said this in this is in the plan of 2023 so he's going to be there he's going to be the feeds the comments the likes as we used to have in it winning live before but it requires sometimes because we want to make it usable as well so um it's going to happen next year okay thank you thank you very much um we had one question in the chat marcus i think this is for you can private organization join it winning or just public school bodies like on your platform yes i answered in the chat already that it winning is a safe and secure space for school staff and the students but as an so to say external user you can be invited to individual projects by the founders of that project okay thank you very much marcus for answering and then already addressed actually some of the questions related to the professional development um i'm looking also at the pilot we posted on the page of the webinar i read already some of the question and checking now to see if there are any other generic questions that can be addressed during the session uh maybe we can take this one uh if your school you as a member or a national or european prize it will be on on our profile maybe this is for you jessica yeah uh yes of course all the badges will be on the profiles as used to be before as well as the it winning school labels will be on the it winning schools profile so you will have this information available as used to be before and actually the prizes badge as well as the support badge are already there so you can already find them in the profile users profile okay thank you very much we have another one about the project and the partners what about my partner so i can i get them into the project they are among the personal contacts but unfortunately i cannot invite them when i enter the project their profiles do not appear yeah i think this is the issue i was telling before about the enabling available for it winning project so please check with your contacts that have enabled available for it winning project and in case they keep on having this issue then i think they need to create a ticket because we need to investigate what is going wrong on the platform okay thank you thank you very much and one about the quality labels when will the european quality labels for the project of last year will be awarded the european quality label nomination will open by the end of the year so next year you will see the the awarding of the european quality labels okay thank you very much another question where can we download the password cards if we didn't do the first time unfortunately for privacy issue for pupils this is available only at the moment when you when you create when you invite pupils to the to the tree space if you didn't do it sorry the first time then you can either change the password if they are not able to log in anymore or you can delete the accounts and recreate the pupils account again and then download the password cards okay thank you thank you very much about the teacher bulletin what's exactly is the purpose of teacher bulletin that of the project diary or a reminder of the main events of the partners this is exactly as in legacy so it is more a project diary for teachers to be always updated on what is coming and what is happening in the in the project to be always updated so there are no changes with legacy with the previous uh it to its basis that were available okay thank you very much and as we are moving moving towards the end of the session i would like to remind the participants to also save the link of the survey we have just posted in the chat and you can complete it later but please save the link now um we can maybe take uh two more questions one is we need a full and comprehensive search function for projects there are thousands and we need detailed filters dedicated to the search function will it be improved maybe this one is for uh marcus we try to to to improve the search algorithm of course and the ranking of the results and at the same time we receive from many sites the request for more sophisticated filters we are working on that thank you thank you very much marcus for for addressing this um and one more question about the progress bar uh when will be visible the progress bar for the winners uh we are working on this and also we are revising the wall um the wall data that we used to be there because before uh part of the uh well the the the points were coming from different activities done by the e-twinners on the platform and as you can imagine the platform has changed a lot so we really need to revise the wall counting and the wall system in order for you to be more uh realistic the the number that you see in the profiles so this is under um we are really studying it hard to see how to improve it a lot thank you thank you very much jessica so uh actually we are running out of time and the session has been quite intense and rich and full of updates so i would like really to thank all the participants who joined this session we hope you found some answers and as we told you everything is in progress the platform will have more functionalities in 2023 so please be patient and everything will be uh fully working soon i would like of course to thank you all our speakers today jessica benjamine and marcus thank you very much for giving the presentation explain all the futures giving all the updates but also for addressing the questions both in the chat and also the one that i read to you directly here i would like to wish you all a good evening and stay safe bye everyone thank you for joining