 Good day, everyone. My name is Albina Bardi. I am CTO of Practica Total. I come from Albania. I am a net tech enthusiast. I'm a modern learner and I'm really excited that I got the chance to share with you some tales from a project that we've been working on in Albania. I listened to many presentations yesterday. I was also in a workshop earlier and I saw how we all celebrate AI and the new ways of learning and this cutting edge technology. But the thing is this is not the same for each school and for each country. This is not the case for my country either, Albania. Now, we know that digital divide is a thing. So many countries and schools actually face lack of access in internet. They lack digital learning materials. They also lack devices to use not just in schools but on other organizations as well. And this is an issue that also affects my country. I would like to ask if any of you have ever visited Albania before? No? Yes? Okay. Well, I've got a lot to tell. Albania is known as the land of eagles. It has these stunning beaches, the majestic mountains. We are also known for our very rich cultural heritage as well. Our food, our hospitality. We are known as very resilient people but if this is not enough just in case. Dua Lipa is Albanian. Mother Teresa also. And for every football fan, Granit Jaka who is the captain of Swiss football team is also Albanian. So we have celebrities of all kinds. All these sounds so good but the sad reality is that young people are leaving Albania. They are traveling abroad for better opportunities that they don't see in our country which is actually really sad. Unemployment being the main reason for this. But something strange is happening though because while youngsters say that there is no job for us, employers actually suffer from the lack of not just qualified staff but even staff. So we ask ourselves if there is enough jobs for youngsters in Albania then why are they leaving? How come that they cannot seem to find each other? And this is how Praktika Dotaal was founded three years ago with a main purpose, to match. The QR code will take you to our company profile. These are some screenshots from our web application. Praktika Pikal has one mission which is to help to be an enabler to facilitate the process of entering and succeeding in the labour market. We offer and provide work-based learning, internships and apprenticeships. We offer online courses, training programs for youngsters in Albania also for employees in organisations. We are a new company but we have managed to build a meaningful portfolio because we've worked with ILO and Swiss Contact mostly on private sector engagement and vet schools digitalisation, vocational educational schools. And this is where we collaborated with Skills for Jobs project. And this is where it all becomes interesting. Skills for Jobs project is a project implemented by Swiss Contact in Albania. They are working with vet systems of vocational educational training schools. I've listed here some of the main points of their work. And the QR code takes you to a document that they have developed. It's a roadmap on vet digitalisation. So for if there is any VET practitioner, I really suggest you to take a look at the document because it has really good practices and it's a good example on how to build an ICT-supported modernisation process for vet schools. But today I'm presenting only how Practica Dotaal helped in one point on digitalisation of vet offer. When Skills for Jobs first started working in Albania, they started identifying key challenges. And apart from the limited digital skills and digital infrastructure, they acknowledged a very important challenge which was the scarcity of learning materials for professional courses in vet schools. So students and teachers didn't have learning materials to begin with. So this is why in 2019 they developed Masovet, which was a Moodle-based platform. And they started hiring teachers to develop to write learning material and then to digitise it and to put it in Moodle, which they called Masovet, which was a great start. Now our job as Practica Dotaal was to leverage the platform to its fullest potential. And what we did is that we followed a more holistic approach. So after laying the groundwork, let's say we embraced Moodle workplace. This was a game changer because what we did with Moodle workplace is that we created an independent site for each vet school. And then we of course it was a priority developing the digital learning materials. So we hired experts that were able to define standards. We worked with a team of instructional designers to assure the quality of these digital learning materials. And we focused on capacity building as well. We built this program called Digital Pedagogy, which included eight courses. This program was followed by about 500 teachers last year on the vet school, which was great. And we did solve the result of it. So we didn't focus only on the technology factor. Human factor is really important. That's why capacity building is a very important thing that we have been working constantly. And what we did is that we also put another thing there, which are digital focal points in school. This was a very important factor. These are teachers that have the necessary technical expertise to help teachers and students inside the school. So not only administer the platform, but also this technical person who also wears the teacher's hat can help his colleagues and students not only to utilize the platform, but to unleash, let's say, every potential of it. Now here is the view of the login pages of some of the vet schools that have their own site on our platform. To do this, we collaborated with wide services, which is a Moodle premium partner from Greece. They did a great job on implementing all this. And now we can say that it has been a real success, because it has only been a year since the implementation of it. And now teachers can create custom courses that match their school's vocational focus. Also, students can access their courses, because we also have the branded Moodle mobile app, which students can access in offline mode every learning material, which was great. And most of all, we now have digital treasure of learning materials, which weren't there before. And they are accessible for all schools in Albania, for all teachers and students to use. And here is the impact of all of this. Here is the number of active users on different scholar years. So last year, we upgraded to Moodle Workplace. And each month, the number of active users was doubled, which was great. We actually did a lot of job here by promoting the platform. And what we did is we used students for it. So we created groups of students on each of that school that we called Innovation Clubs. So they were kind of our brand ambassadors. They learned, they teach other students about the platform, about the learning materials, and how they can also push the teachers to use the platform. Because students were actually our biggest advocates on this journey, while teachers were a bit more resistant because of the age gap sometimes, because of the fear of using new technology. So yeah, there were lots of challenges that are still, that are still on. It's not like we have solved everything, but it's a really, really good start. And here is the number of courses in Mosovet. So there are more than 500 courses. And the number of users each year is around 15,000 now, which is also great. And yeah, this is it. This is my LinkedIn profile if you want to connect. Thank you all for listening. Thank you.