The project partners of the international project EIFNEG - EMOCAL INTELLIGENCE FOR A NEW EUROPEAN GENERATION, which is implemented under the Erasmus+ programme, met for the second time at a joint meeting today 6.6., unfortunately not in the originally planned Portuguese city of Braga, but online. In addition to various organisational issues, the meeting discussed in particular the work and efforts made so far on the first project deliverable, which includes a summary report on the situation regarding the status of emotional intelligence in schools in different European countries. The research conducted so far in the Czech Republic, Romania and Spain has shown that emotional intelligence is generally not included in the school curriculum, not enough mental health programmes are organised in schools and teachers in particular would need training on this topic and how to pass it on. In the following period, the project partners will elaborate the results of surveys among students and teachers in the project partners' countries and select 10 key areas of emotional intelligence, on the basis of which the project partners will then develop innovative educational materials on this topic for both students and teachers in the following period. Stay tuned to our communication channels to learn more about further project results!

At the end of last week, the first face-to-face meeting of the project consortium for the new project EIFNEG: Emotional Intelligence as a basis for the educational and personal development of the new European generation, took place in Prague. In addition to the Czech partners Gymnasium J. Guth Jarkovský and the Institute of European Professional Studies, the project is also cooperating with the Portuguese partners ASDPESO, the Romanian partners CPIP and Liceul Teoretic William Shakespeare, and the Spanish partners Colegio Séneca S.C.A. and GROWTH COOP. During the first meeting, the partners were introduced to the project objectives, individual results and all organizational issues such as project management and monitoring rules, project evaluation and also very important dissemination, the so-called dissemination of awareness about the project. During the two-day meeting, the foreign partners personally visited the Gymnasium J. Guth-Jarkovský, saw its premises and had the opportunity to look into the teaching process. The next international meeting of the project consortium is scheduled for June this year in Portugal. All project partners are very much looking forward to the next face-to-face meeting and working together on the project.