14/11/2025
🌍 Yesterday we arrived in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia 🇬🇪, where today we participated on the final coordination meeting of our INVET project. We had a successful meeting with partners from Armenia, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, and Slovakia. The discussions unfolded with forward-looking ideas, honest reflections, and a shared commitment to sustaining the project’s impact beyond its lifetime.
The meeting opened the previous day with warm welcoming remarks from Kakha Khandolishvili, Acting Director General of the @პროფესიული უნარების სააგენტო • Skills Agency Georgia and Labossa Bence, Project Management Director of MeOut, setting a collaborative and inspiring tone for the final gathering of all partners.
🤝 After months of activities supporting VET students from Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova, and strengthening the skills of their teachers through international cooperation, partners reunited in Tbilisi for the last time to close the project and look toward the future.
💡 The day focused on consolidation and strategy, the partner representatives revisited the main achievements of the project, like the preparation and development of teachers for mobility programmes, strengthened cooperation among regional public, private, and social actors and many more
🗂️ Discussions centred on final reporting, documentation, and administrative closure, ensuring that every activity, outcome, and lesson learned was captured clearly and transparently. One of the most valuable elements of the day was the exchange on future cooperation possibilities. Partners explored how the strong network created through the project could continue to support teacher development, expand mobility opportunities, and keep promoting access for disadvantaged learners even after the project officially ended.
💬 The meeting also reflected on the challenges faced throughout implementation, from supporting students with multiple obstacles to maintaining gender balance and encouraging long-term teacher engagement, reducing the bureaucratic burdens. We believe that these honest reflections will shape future initiatives and inspire new partnerships.
✨ As the meeting concluded, one message became clear: INVET achieved more than its planned activities, it created a community committed to inclusion, opportunity, and long-term cross-border cooperation. The partners left Tbilisi with new ideas, shared motivation, and a renewed purpose to continue empowering disadvantaged learners and building stronger VET systems across the Eastern Partnership region and Central Europe.
We are deeply grateful to each partner NGO - Youth Cooperation Center of Dilijan, @პროფესიული უნარების სააგენტო • Skills Agency Georgia , Startup Szeged Agenţia Naţională de Asigurare a Calităţii în Educație și Cercetare, DevelopMe whose energy, professionalism, and passion carried this project forward. Through challenges, solutions, and shared successes, you proved that collaboration is the foundation of meaningful change. Thank you for walking this journey with us and for believing in the mission of creating opportunities for disadvantaged learners. Together, we grew and together, we will continue to make an impact.
The project “INVEsT in you: promote international traineeship programs for Armenian, Georgian and Moldovan students in Central Europe” is funded by the European Commission which aims to strengthen the professional skills, transversal and key competencies of disadvantaged students from the Eastern Partnership countries and at the same time promotes the development of teachers through different activities.
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